Reports of Societies. 



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HuDDERSFiELD SCIENTIFIC Club, — Meeting November 8th, Mr. C. P. 

 Hobkirk, president, in the chair. — Mr. S. D. Bairstow showed various 

 lepidoptera recently taken by himseK at Llanrwst, including Colias Edusa, 

 var. Helice, singularly the only specimen of Colias he had observed there : 

 it appeared to be just out of pupa ; the spotted variety of Satyrus 

 Hyperanthus, S. ^geria, Xylina rliizoUtha, &c. Mr. G. T. Porritt 

 exhibited Meliana flammea, taken in the fens during the past season by 

 Mr. F. D. Wheeler ; Cramhus liamellus and latistriellus, from Surrey ; 

 C. uliginosellus and ScJioenohius gigantellns, from Norfolk ; and B. forficellus, 

 from near London ; the secretary (]Mr. George Brook) a large case of 

 named exotic Diurni ; and Mr. ^. L. Mosley, a fine series of coloured 

 plates, executed by himself, most of them being of exotic Bhophalocera, 

 but some were of British Nocturni ; one in particular of the whole of the 

 British ZygcEnidce created great interest. 



Lajstcashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — Meeting Oct. 

 29th, Mr. S. J. Capper, president, in the chair. — A paper was read by 

 Mr. Ellis, entitled, " On the Preservation of Lepidopterous Larvae." The 

 meeting then resolved itself into a conversazione, and the members 

 exhibited several objects of interest. A very fine sx^ecimen of Acherontia 

 Atropos was shown by Mr. West. It was caught on board a vessel 

 twenty-five miles from Holyhead. — W. H. Mountfield, Hon. Sec. 



Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association. — 268th 

 Meeting, October 30th, the president Mr. Jas. Abbott, in the chair. — 

 Paper read, " The Potato," by Mr. C. S. Spence. 



269th Meeting, Nov. 6th. — A number of donations of eggs, butterflies 

 and beetles to the local collections were shown. Mr. John W. Taylor 

 showed Helix villosa, H. incarnata, H. candidula, H. rupestris, Clausilia 

 parmda, C. laminata, Pomatias maculatum, and Bulimus montanus from 

 Neuchatel, in Switzerland. Mr. Henry Pollard showed two tablets of 

 Helix ericetorum from Settring-ton, near Malton ; in one of the specimens 

 the spire was very much raised. Mr, Hy. Crowther exhibited specimens 

 of a wood-boring beetle {Hylesinus vittatus), and of bark infested by it, 

 taken near Leeds. Mr. Roebuck exhibited Sirex gigas (female), and 

 another species of Sirex wliich he had not identified, from Crewe ; and 

 also a species of the same genus taken alive in Leeds, which he considered 

 as likely to prove to be the Sirex melanocerus of Thomson's " Hymenoptera 

 Scandinavioe," vol. i. Mr. Charles Smethurst showed a number of 

 beetles taken at Bishop's Wood, among which Mr. H. Crowther identified 

 Steropiis madidus, Fab., Apodents coryli, L., Micraspis 12-punctata, L., 

 - Coccinella hipninctata, L., and 0. lJi.-guttata, L. 



270th Meeting, Nov. 13th, the president in the chair, — The president 

 exhibited a living animal of Planorhis nautileus under the microscope, 

 showing the movements of the heart and the ciliary motions. With the 

 microscope Mr, F. Emsley showed the raphides of Black Bryony {Tamus 



