Reports of Societies, 



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pithcecia minutata, Melanippe flitc- 

 tuata, &c. ; Mr. S. Bairstow vari- 

 ous species which he had taken at 

 Barmouth the previous week, 

 amongst them a pupa of Chcero- 

 campa Elpenor he had found ex- 

 posed in an open place, laid on the 

 top of a large fungus. Some dis- 

 cussion ensued as to how it had 

 come there, the general opinion 

 being that the fungus, in growing, 

 had forced it from beneath the sur- 

 face of the earth. He had also 

 taken a specimen of Euperia fulvago 

 there, thus adding another locality 

 for this species. — Mr. Peter Armi- 

 tage laid on the table a specimen of 

 the wheatear (Saxicola CEnanfhe) 

 he had just shot ; it was considered 

 late for this bird to be in the neigh- 

 bourhood. After some further 

 business, Mr. J. E. Palmer read an 

 interesting paper on " The Ornith- 

 ology of the District," in which he 

 detailed a number of birds which 

 are found in the district during the 

 whole year, including 39 species. 

 Some years ago the kingfisher was 

 a constant resident, but is now only 

 occasionally seen in the winter. 

 Mr. Morris, in his " History of 

 British Birds," says that "the 

 golden plover breeds on Meltham 

 moors," but such is certainly not 

 the case now, though small flocks 

 of them are sometimes found pas- 

 sing over, generally after dusk. 



Meeting, October 9th, the pre- 

 sident in the chair. — Mr. Sidney 

 Field exhibited an interesting 

 piece of limestone containing sev- 

 eral fossils. It had formed part 

 of a gravestone in Almondbury 

 Churchyard. — Mr. Copley exhibited 



a specimen of Nucula from the 

 Lias. — Messrs. Joseph Whitwam 

 and Lister Peace exhibited a series 

 of botanical specimens from the 

 neighbourhood of Wentbridge, in- 

 cluding Bryonia dioica, Campanula 

 glomerata, &c. — The president 

 shewed preserved larvae of Bombyx 

 ruhi, Lithoda aureola, Eupithecia 

 rmmitata, and Knautiata, (?) E. 

 virgaureata, Melanthia ocellata, 

 Melamppe fluctuata, and Ac^^onycia 

 rurmcis. He said larvae of E. Knau- 

 tiata found on Scahiosa Succisa 

 would also eat ling and ragwort, 

 the food-plants of minutata. Mr. 

 Porritt also exhibited a very large 

 evidently exotic species of centi- 

 pede, which had been brought 

 to him from the railway (goods) 

 station by a man who had caught it 

 amongst dyewood, with which it 

 had no doubt been introduced. — 

 Mr. C. P. Hobkirk read a letter 

 from Dr. F. Arnold Lees, F.L.S. — 

 sent for publication in the Natur- 

 a?is^---suggesting that the Ruhus 

 exhibited by Mr. Mosley a few 

 weeks ago was probably B. lacinia- 

 tus, an introduced species that had 

 got into the hedgerow where Mr. 

 Mosley found it. Mr. Pontey had 

 expressed the same behef at the 

 last meeting, and no doubt this is 

 the correct solution. Mr. Lees had 

 sent a specimen which seemed in 

 every way identical with Mr. Mos- 

 ley's. Mr. Hobkirk also gave a 

 most interesting account of the 

 Fungus Show just held at Perth, 

 at which he had been present, and 

 suggested that at some future time 

 one should be held in Huddersfield. 

 — Mr. Samuel Bairstow then read 

 a most interesting and instructive 



