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Entomology, which he submitted ty their notice, viz., Mr. Owen Wilson's 

 Larvae of British Lepicloptera," and Mr. Mosley's ^' Illustrations of 

 British Lepidoptera Varieties " ; also the " Index Entomologicus," 

 recently published by Dr. Katter of Berlin. The Rev. H. H. Higgins 

 exhibited some very interesting illustrations of Japanese Heterocera, and 

 Mr. Kinder specimens of Sperclimis emarginatus — a water beetle lately 

 taken plentifully near London after a disappearance of several years. 



The Leeds Natuealists' Club and Scientific Association. —369th 

 meeting, Feb. 24th. — Vertebrate section, Mr. W. E. Clarke in the chair. 

 The meeting was devoted to the reading of lists bearing on the vertebrate 

 fauna of the Permian limestone tract, including the country about 

 Staveley, Knaresbro', Ribston,- Wetherby, Tadcaster, Bramham, 

 Aberford, Sherburn, and Ledsham. The list of quadrupeds sub- 

 mitted was very meagre, and only included eleven species. The 

 catalogue of birds was more satisfactory, and included 108 species, 57 

 being resident, 26 summer migrants, 10 winter visitants, and 15 stragglers 

 or rare and accidental visitants. The latter class included some very 

 rare birds, three of which — the orphean warbler, the cream-coloured 

 courser, and Ross's rosy gull — are represented by extremely few, and in 

 the last case by no other, British-killed examples. The list of reptiles 

 was a meagre one, including five names only. Mr. John Grassham 

 read a list of thirteen fishes, to be found in the Wharfe at Thorp Arch. 



370th Meeting, March 2nd. — Entomological Section, Mr. Henry 

 Lupton in the chair. — The natural history of the Permian district was 

 again gone into, notes on lepidoptera being communicated by various 

 members. A discussion arose on the ease with which the burnets are 

 exterminated. Mr. W. H. Taylor stated that ZygcenafilipendulcE used to 

 be common at Bramham about twenty years ago, but that when he 

 collected there soon after, it had become extremely scarce. He also 

 stated that many years ago a colony of burnets existed in the borough of 

 Leeds, just beyond Wortley — now of course extinct. Mr. C . Smethurst 

 reported a similar instance in a field near Horsforth. Mr. W. H. Taylor 

 showed, for Mr. Thomas Benn, a drawer of geometers, which included a 

 moth found in the streets of Leeds, of a form which cannot be well 

 identified, but is supposed to be Geometm jpapilionaria. He also showed 

 a box of the species of Acronycta and Sesia. Mr. John Grassham showed 

 some interesting moths, mostly Bombyces ; Mr. Washington Teasdale, 

 F.R.M.S., dichroic scales of various lepidoptera, showing complementary 

 colour according as they are viewed by transmitted or reflected light ; 

 Mr. F. Emsley, Hydra viridis from Sandal, near Wakefield, and, by 

 special request, Mr. James Abbott brought his series of slides of the 

 brain of the cockroach. 



37lsT Meeting, March 9th, Mr. B. Holgate, F.G.S., president, in the 

 chair. — Lecture given by Mr. Frederick Greenwood, M.R.C.S.E., on 

 " The Structure and Comparative Anatomy of the Heart," illustrated by 

 diagrams and specimens. 



