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found along with other vegetable remains and works of man, amongst 

 which were necklets made of twisted stems of Polytrichum commune ; 

 this was probably the first time a moss had been found in such a condition. 

 The chairman, cocoons of various silk-producing bombyces, including 

 Attacus cynthia, A. myliita, A. yama-mai, Actias selene, Tilia polyphemuSf 

 Saturnia pyri, and >S. cecropia. Mr. G. T, Porritt showed Eupithecia 

 innotata — a species erased from the British list some years ago, but of 

 which he had taken two specimens at Skegness, on the Lincolnshire 

 coast, last July. With the imago he exhibited a figure of the larva, 

 drawn by Mr, William Buckler, of Emsworth, from a continental speci- 

 men. The larva feeds on Artemisia campestris and probably other species 

 of Artemisia. Also specimens of another Eupithecia, supposed to be a 

 new species, which had been bred from larvas found on Scabious on the 

 coast at Lynmouth. Also Phihalapteryx lapidata, taken by Richard 

 Weaver twenty years ago ; and Pterophorus haliodactylus, P. tephradac- 

 tylus, and P. galactodactylus, all from Bristol. Part Y. of Mosley's 

 " Illustrations of Varieties of British Lepidoptera," containing chiefly the 

 genus Argynnis, was laid on the table. 



The Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association. —349th 

 meeting, Sept. 2nd, Mr. Thomas Hick, B.A., B.Sc, in the chair. - Mr. 

 Geo. F. Chantrell, ex-president of the Liverpool Microscopical Society, 

 exhibited a very extensive and interesting series of original drawings and 

 a few slides illustrative of the borderland between animal and vegetable 

 life, and delivered an address upon them. Mr. W. Denison Roebuck 

 exhibited Oynips gemmoe, L. {C. fecundatrix, Hartig.), Nematus virescens, 

 Hartig., and Poecilosoma longicorne, Thoms., all collected by Mr. S. D. 

 Bairstow near Huddersfield, and new to the county list of hymenoptera. 

 He also showed Toxotus meridianus, from Loversall Quarry, near Don- 

 caster, and Smerinthus ocellatus, from Burnt Bridge, near Pannal. Mr. 

 Charles Smethurst exhibited Liparis salicis, Bradyepetes amataria, Selenia 

 illunaria, and Arhraxas grossulariata, from Barlby, near Doncaster ; and 

 Thecla W -album, from Loversall Quarry. On behalf of Mr. A. Clapham, 

 of Scarborough, was shown a MS. table showing all the occurrences of 

 Vanessa Antiopa in Britain in 1872, to the number of 176 specimens. A 

 letter from Mr. James Carter, of Masham, was read, in which he noted 

 that Vanessa cardui was remarkably abundant in that locality this year, 

 almost as plentiful as V. urticoe ; also that Apatura Iris had been taken 

 at Rickling, near Stanstead, Essex, August 11th. — W. D. R. 



351st Meeting, Sept. 16th, Mr. J. R. Murdoch mentioned that Dr. 

 Wesley had presented to the Club herbarium a large number of mosses, 

 collected about Wetherby, excellently preserved, and including Euryn- 

 chium Swartzii, Camptothecium nitens, BracJiythecium plumosum, Hypnum 

 fluitans, IB. cordifolium, H. stellatum, H . loreum, H. splendens, Mnium 

 serratum, &c., mostly in fruit. Mr. John Darley brought a living 

 scorpion, which had been taken in logwood, in a Leeds timber-yard. A 

 specimen of Zootoca vivipara, common lizard, from Riccall Common, was 



