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recorded having seen 80 to 100 pied wagtails running about Fitzwilliam 

 Street, in the town, early on the morning of the 24th August ; the 

 atmosphere was cold and frosty at the time. In entomology Mr. Charles 

 Shaw exhibited the Colorado potato-beetle ; also mosquitoes from 

 America. Mr. John Conacher, Plusia festucm, taken by himself at Perth, 

 and Thecla W-alhum from Edlington Wood. Mr. S. D. Bairstow, Folia 

 chi, var. olivacea, from High Hoyland. The president recorded the 

 capture, on tansy in his garden at Highroyd, of Pterophorns ocJirodactylus, 

 a species entirely new to the district ; he also exhibited a fine specimen 

 of a locust (species not determined) which had been taken a fortnight or 

 more previously, in one of the streets in the town ; he remarked that a 

 similar example had been taken at Bradford about the same date, from 

 which it would appear that a flight had come over to this country. The 

 secretary, Mr. George Brook, presented the last volume of Macmillan's 

 " Science Primers," and Alcock's "Botanical Names for English Readers," 

 to the library of the Society. The sixth annual report of the Leeds Field 

 Club and Scientific Association had also been received from the secretary 

 of that Club. Mr. Joseph Tindall delivered a lecture on " The deposition 

 of Strata in time in Britain. " The title of the lecture sufficiently indicates 

 its character ; with the aid of a long series of admirably-executed 

 diagrams, Mr. Tindall handled his subject in an interesting and most lucid 

 manner. — G. B. 



Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association. — 222nd 

 Meeting, August 22nd, 1876. Mr. Henry Pocklington, F.R.M.S., vice- 

 president, in the chair. Mr. William Nelson, showed a large number of 

 examples of the common Helix nemoralis and its variety hortensis to show 

 the large amount of variation attained by this species. Mr. E. E. Prince 

 exhibited five species of lepidoptera,— ^i"ge Galathea, Lasiommata Megcera, 

 Hipparchia Semele, Polyommatus Gorydon and Ourapteryx samhucata, — 

 taken near Dorchester. Mr. Henry Pollard showed Bithinia tentaculata, 

 taken in the canal at Newlay. Mr. John Grassham showed specimens 

 of Bombyx Pernyii, and other insects. On behalf of Mr. James Abbott 

 were shown a number of specimens of a beetle, Mezium sulcatum, which 

 had been found in powdered ginger. The beetle is commonly found in 

 cupboards in Leeds, and often very far from any possible article of food. 



223ed Meeting, August 29th, Mr. Samuel Jefferson, F.C.S., president, 

 in the chair. — Mr. Henry Crowther exhibited a box of Dragon-flies, well 

 set, but unfortunately not named : also a small wasp-nest from Cheshire; 

 and Queensland mosquitoes, sent over this year. Mr. Charles Smethurst 

 showed two marine shells from the Isle of Man, Littorina rudis and L. 

 ohtusata ; Polia nigrocincta, bred from larvae from the Isle of Man ; Xa7i- 

 fhia silago, bred from larvse from Adel Moor ; Cidaria prunata, taken 

 sparingly at Bishop Wood ; and other lepidoptera from the neighbour- 

 hood. Mr. Benjamin Holgate brought a nodule of clay ironstone from 



