YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION AT HORTON-IN-RIBBLESDALE. I81 
places. Clausilia rugosa and Zua lubrica were found on the 
limestone scars of Penyghent at 1,900 feet elevation. Ancylus 
Jtuviatilis swarmed in Douk Gill Beck, and Mr. Riley Fortune, F.Z.S., 
found Limnea peregra abundantly in the river Ribble above Horton. 
The other species noted were Avion ater, Arion minimus (an example 
at Gearstones was brilliant primrose yellow when found, but lost the 
colour completely and was quite white after five minutes’ crawling on 
the captor’s finger, which in its turn became yellow, showing that the 
colour was that of the shine), Zimax arborum (Castleberg), Vitrina 
pellucida, Zonites cellarius, Z. alliarius, Z. nitidulus, Z. crystallinus 
(Ling Gill), Z fulvus (ditto), Helix nemoralis, H. arbustorum, 
Hf. concinna, H. hispida, H. rotundata, and Pupa umbilicata. 
he Entomological Section was reported upon by its President, 
Mr. Geo. T. Porritt, F.L.S., F.E.S. Very few members were present, 
and included, besides himself, Messrs. John Braim (Pickering) and 
E. G. Potter (York). Not many insects were noted: Zentocampa 
rubricosa in the imago state; and larve of a Scoparia, probably 
muralis or coarctalis (asizucialie’, in abundance in moss on the 
walls ; with the Scoparia were a few of a Gelechia, which there is little 
doubt will produce confinella. Among Neuroptera only NMemoura 
meyert and Leuctra Lopsecandes were determined with certainty, both 
species being com 
he botanists nik attended the excursion included, among 
many. others, the President, Mr. C. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S.; the 
ev. W. Fowler, M.A., who presented the Phanerogamic report ; 
and Mr. M. B. Slater, F.L.S., a Secretary of the Section. 
The following account is written by Mr. P. H. Grimshaw, from 
information supplied from various sources :— 
e botanists were gratified by having a very successful day, 
especially considering that the season was so late and the date so 
early. Representatives of this section accompanied all the three 
parties, though the greater number arrived with the later contingent 
at noon. Those who took the Ling Gill and Penyghent route, or at 
any rate those who started early, were very limited in number, yet 
some good observations were made, record being taken of about 
120 species of Phanerogams. Immediately on alighting from the 
train at Ribblehead, the great rarity of the district was noted, the 
Now far-famed Arenaria gothica. From Ribblehead to Gearstones 
Several species were seen, the more noteworthy of which were 
Alchemilla arvensis, Saxifraga tridactylites, and Thymus serpyllum. 
The walk from Gearstones to Ling Gill yielded little of an interesting 
nature, being mostly over moorland covered with such plants as 
Ca “luna Erica, Erica Tetralix, and Empetrum nigrum, However, 
