YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION AT ROKEBY. 
Pieris brassicze, abundant. 
Pieris rapze, abundant. 
Pieris napi, abundant. This species 
ms. 
Chortobius pamphilus, common. 
Hepialus hectus, very fine, fairly 
co 
mon. 
Emmelesia affinitata, common. 
Emmelesia albulata, common. 
Eupithecia minutata, common at night 
in the garden of the Morritt Arms 
Hotel, Greta Bridge. 
Melanippe montanata, very common. 
We took one or two very pretty 
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Cidaria suffumata, only one taken. 
Acronycta rumicis, one taken at rest. 
Plusia gamma, abundant. 
Stenopteryrx hybridalis, very common, 
as it has been in all localities 
have collected in this season. 
Crambus pratellus, abundant. 
Tortrix ministrana, abundant. 
Sericoris lacunana, common. 
Cnephasia musculana, abundant. 
Bactra lanceolana, common. 
Ephippiphora cirsiana, common. 
Ephippiphora turbidana, a very fine 
series taken amongst Butterbur. 
Plutella cruciferarum, very common. 
forms, with the bar much broken. 
The Section on the date of the excursion was not so well attended 
as might have been expected. The following were the only members 
present, so far as could be ascertained, and if any names are omitted it 
is because they were not seen by either of the Secretaries of this 
Section. Messrs. J. Geldart (Darlington), A. E. Hall, Hon. Sec. 
(Sheffield), T. A. Lofthouse (Middlesbrough), J. H. Rowntree, 
Hon. Sec. (Scarborough), W. Mansbridge (Horsforth), and H. B. 
Wilson (Leeds). 
Nothing was done among the other orders, except that a specimen 
. the Wasp Beetle (Clytus ariefis) was taken near Eggleston 
bey 
In the absence of the Phanerogamic Secretary of the Botanical 
Section, the report was presented and the following account supplied 
Mr. A. H. Pawson, of Farnley :— 
The Botanists of the party made their way from the town through 
the rich meadows and thick woods which here overhang the bed of 
the river, and at no time of the year could a more lovely display of 
flowers have been seen. The mowing-grass was a mass of colour, 
and among the commoner field flowers the white bells of Saxifraga 
$ranulata were plentiful. Overhead the Mountain Ash, Hawthorn, 
and Wild Crab made the woods gay, whilst in their deepest glades 
the White Bear’s Garlic gleamed among the blue Hyacinths, and the 
Opener spaces sparkled and shone with the white and lilac Lady’s 
Smocks, the pink Campion, and the turquoise Forget-me-not ; the 
walls and rocks were hung with Herb Robert, and the wild and 
barren Strawberries, mixed with the rarer Geranium lucidum and 
Saxtfraga tridactylites. The extreme beauty and luxuriance of the 
Spring foliage and flowers in this favoured valley were remarked by 
all. The open nature of the woods, the exposed rocks—those of 
cesta, so dear to the lover of plants—and the moist river-banks, 
uly 1892, 
