BaPvNSLEY Naturalists' Society. — Meeting, March 16th. — An inter- 

 esting paper was given by Mr. G. Griffiths, being observations from his 

 note-book of birds, here and in his native district on the Welsh borders. 

 A few additional plants were recorded in flower. Most of our resident 

 songsters cheer us with their fuller melodies. The com bunting was 

 heard March iTth ; the starlings, jackdaws, and rooks are busy in the 

 fields picking up worms, grubs, &c. ; and among the plantations and 

 woods the last two have been engaged some weeks in carrying sticks and 

 other materials for their nests. ]\Ir. Hailstone writes on the 7th that the 

 grey wagtail appeared on the Lawn at Walton Hall. This winter visitant 

 to South Yorkshire has been rarely seen this scarce season. The pied 

 wagtail — our resident bird of this family — appears more frequently than 

 it did in the intensely cold months. March 10th, IVIr. Berry reports a 

 large flock of fieldfares in a field near Silkstone : he believes they are 

 moving by daily stages to their breeding haunts in Norway. A few gulls 

 have been noted. On the 18th another large flock of fieldfares was seen 

 in a turnip-field at Day House. This bird, and its companion the red- 

 wing, have only been noted at rare intervals this season. — T. Lister. 



Elland-cum-Greetlaxd Naturalists' Society. — Monthly meeting, 

 1st March. — ]Mr. C. C. Hanson showed eggs of the lapwing, tern, jack- 

 daw, red grouse, and swallow. — W. H. Stott. 



Huddersfield Scientific Club. — March meeting, Mr. S. L. Mosley, 

 president, in the chair. — ^Ir. C, P. Hobkirk exhibited Brachythecium 

 salebrosum, gathered by the Rev. H. H.W^ood in Dorsetshire, making the 

 sixth British locality for the species ; the chairman, a fine pair of the 

 lesser kestrel, the male specimen killed by the Bev. George Armitage in 

 Barbary, several years ago : the female from the Volga. Also a pair of 

 the grey-headed wagtail, the male bird from Westphalia, and the female 

 from Pomerania, May 18th, 1879. He also showed a series of the very 

 dark unicolorous males of Hibernia progemmaria. The form — which is 

 very difi'erent to the ordinary type — occurs pretty commonly in this 

 district, and being unnamed, he proposed to call it var. fuscata. In the 

 same box Mr. Mosley had a series of a Microgaster, bred from the pupa 

 of Pieris rapce ; it was alUed to, but distinct from glomeratus. Mr. G. T. 

 Porritt showed a nice imago, with empty cocoon, of Nola centonalis, 

 given to him by Mr. W. H. Tugwell of Greenwich, who had recently bred 

 a series from eggs from an example taken in Kent in August last. 

 Previously there were only three or four known British specimens. The 

 periodicals laid on the table included the new American Monthly 

 Microscopical Journal," The Annual Beport of the North Stafibrdshire 

 Naturalist Field Club and Archaeological Association," &c. The president 

 was elected the Club's delegate to the council of the Yorkshire NaturaUsts' 

 Union. 



LA2fCASHIRE A^D CHESHIRE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIBTY. — Monthly 



meeting. — In the absence of a paper, the president, who occupied the 

 chair, drew the attention of members to some recent publications on 



