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JOUEXAL OF THE YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION, 



6EITSHAL FIELD GLUB EEGORD, 



NEW SERIES 



Edited by Chas. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S., and G. T. Poreitt, F.L.S. 



No. XL. 



1878. 



VOL. IV. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Original Articles : — 



Flowerless Plants and their Habitats.— F. Parsons, M.D., F.G.S 49 



Habits and Breeding of Micro-Lepidoptera. — J. H. Threlfall ... 54 



On Preserving Mosses. — C. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S. .... ... ' 56 



Notes, &c. : — 



Falco peregrinus. — T. Foster ... 58 



Late Summer Migrants. — C. C. Hanson ... ... ... ... ... ... 58 



Ornithological Notes : Leeds, 1878. —Walter Maine ... 58 



Acherontia Atropos at Goole. — S. D. Bairstow ... ., 59 



Cynophallus caninus in S. W. Yorkshire. — J. Edmund Clark, B.A., B.Sc, <Lx. 59 



Seligeria ii'isticha in Englsind. — J. Whitehead .:. ... ... 59 



Is (Sg^j^ej'ia t?ns^icAa. new to England or not ? — F. Arnold Lees, F.L.S. ... ... 59 



Notices OF Books, &c, ... ... 60 



Rainfall for September 60 



Reports of Societies 



Barnsley Naturalists' ... ...^ ... 61 



Bradford Naturalists' ... ... 61 



Goole Scientific ... ... ... ... ... ... 61 



'Huddersfield Scientific Club ... ... 62 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society ... .. / 63 



Leeds Naturalists' Club, &c ... ... ... ... 63 



Stainland Natui'alists' ... 64 



York and District Field Naturalists' 64 



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