-Reports of SociEaiEs. 



43 



found during the day presented nothing special ; among the fungi (18^ 

 were Agaricus ruhescens, A. speciosus, Paxilhis involutus, Marasmius 

 Rotula, Boletus clwysenteron, Licea fragiformis, Fhragmidium hulhosum, 

 Coleosporium petasitis, and Claviceps purpurea — the " ergot of rye," 

 famed for its use in obstetric medicine. A good many molkisca were 

 found, but of common kinds. Arrangements were made for the winter 

 season. It was resolved that the hour of meeting should be altered from 

 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., and that meetings should be held fortnightly during the 

 winter ; meetings for the exhibition of specimens alternating with those 

 for the reading of papers. It was agreed that the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union should be invited to hold a meeting in 1878 at Brough. — 

 H. Franklin Parsons, Sec. 



HuDDERSFiELD SCIENTIFIC Club. — Meeting, Sept. 15th, in the Museum, 

 South-street, the president, Mr. C. P. Hobkirk, in the chair. — The 

 exhibitions were numerous, and included — Geology : Hamites maximus, 

 from Folkestone, and Fusus porrectus, from Hants, by Mr. S. D. 

 BairstOw ; granite and quartz pebbles from a gravel bed half-a-mile from 

 the present river bed, found when cutting the new canal between Horbury 

 and Thornhill, by Mr. S. L. Mosley. Botany : Goody era repens from 

 Armathwaite, Cumberland, by Mr. George Brook ter. ; also the same 

 plant along with the following, from Gordon Castle, by Mr. John 

 Conacher : — Narthecium ossifragum, Gymnadenia conopsea, Trientalis 

 europma, Hypericum perforatum, Hydrocotyle vulgaris, F/riopliorum vagi- 

 natum, Galium palustre, var. ' Witheringii, Folytrichmn gracile, J uncus 

 ohtusiflorus and J. effusus, &c. Lepidoptera : Mr. G. T. Porritt, a box of 

 various species taken by himself in the New Forest this season, including 

 Lithosia quadra, Belidosema plumaria, Catacola sponsa and pivmissa, and 

 many others ; also full-grown larvse of Stenopteryx hyhridalis, reared from 

 eggs deposited by a moth from the same locahty. Mr. Mosley showed 

 splendid varieties of Vanessa urticoe, Chortohius Pamphilus, Arctia 

 mendica, and Folia flavocincta—diR taken or bred at Bradford : also a 

 larva of Colias Edusa, smd preserved larvse with imagos of Cidaria sagit- 

 tata. He also read some extracts from a letter received from Mr. Tasker, 

 from Switzerland, stating that Colias Edusa had been exceedingly abun- 

 dant there this season, as in England, and that now the second brood was 

 flying in large numbers ; all the specimens he had taken, however, were 

 males. Mr. S. D. Bairstow, Larentia olivata from Wales. Hemiptera, 

 Homoptera : the following taken in the district by Mr. Mosley : — Ary- 

 tcena ulicis, Fsylla Forsteri, P. alni, P. fraxinicola, and P. mali. Mr. 

 George Brook shewed Mr. Norman's slide of the micro spores of truffle, 

 termed the " halo slide," from the singular fact that when looking through 

 it at a light, the light appears surrounded with a number of rainbow- 

 coloured halos. The slide created great interest. 



Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association. - 260th 

 meeting, August 21st, the president, Mr. Jas. Abbott, in the chair. — Mr. 



