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sent by Mr. Carter. Mr, Charles Smethurst showed a small Amphidasis 

 hetularia (Bishop's Wood), a three-winged Abraxas grosssulariata (bred), 

 Ephyra punctaria (bred from Bishop's Wood larvae), and Trichiosoma 

 hetuleti and cocoons from Bishop's Wood, where it is abundant. Mr. 

 Henry Marsh showed preserved larvse, pupse, and imagos of Madena 

 pisi from Woodhouse Ridge, its parasite and food-plant ; also larvae from 

 Meanwood of Noctua brunnea, N. augur, and Boarmia repandata. Mr. 

 Walter Buckton brought specimens of Trachea piniperda, taken this 

 season, near Blackmoor, north of Leeds. Mr. Roebuck, miscellaneous 

 insects, including Zeuzera cesculi from Mapplewell, near Barnsley, 

 Andrena fulva from Rastrick, Bomhus virginalis from AVothersome, 

 Acilius sulcatus from Askham Bog, and others. Other objects were also 

 on view. 



380th Meeting, May 11 th, the president in the chair. — Mr. Washington 

 Teasdale, F.R.M.S., exhibited slides of the crystals he had obtained from 

 different inks in common use ; and type slides of allied genera of ferns. 

 Mr. J. W, Dixon, slides of minerals. Mr. W. Barwell Turner, F.C.S., 

 F.R.M.S., fresh- water algae, including a species new to Yorkshire 

 (probably to England), thought by Dr. M. C. Cooke to be a Microtham- 

 nion. Mr. James Abbott, the following species from Bramhope : — 

 Closterium setaceum, C. lunula, C. moniliferum, Pandorina morum, 

 Cosmarium tetraphthalinum. and Docidium truncatum ; also Entomos- 

 traca {Brachionus and Cypris). Mr. F. Emsley, Astasia and Euglena. 

 Mr. J. R. Murdoch gave a list of mosses and hepaticae found about 

 Horsforth ; and exhibited Aulacomnium androgynum irom Madam Wood, 

 collected by Mr. T. Birks, jun.— W. D. R. 



OvENDEN Naturalists' Society. — Monthly meeting. May. — Mr. James 

 Spencer gave a report of the meeting of the Yorkshire Union of Naturalists, 

 held on Easter Monday, at Masham, for the Ripon district, and gave a 

 short account of the geology of that neighbourhood, exhibiting the 

 following fossils from a quarry in the millstone grit rocks, between 

 Fountains Abbey and Brimham : — Orthis resupinata, Produdus maritima, 

 P. semi-reticulatus, PTiynclionella, Pleurodon, and Belleroplwn costatus, 

 which were only a few of the specimens obtained. Mr. T. Hirst exhibited 

 a pair of French partridges, pair of summer ducks, and pair of teal ducks. 



Ramble in the Luddenden Valley. — The members had a ramble 

 through the Luddenden Valley, on 8th May, through Wheatley to Warley 

 Edge, and through HoUins Wood. Owing to the recent cold weather the 

 specimens taken were not numerous, and those only of the commoner 

 species ; bat the members had a very pleasant and enjoyable excursion. 

 —Joseph Ogden, Hon. Sec. 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. — The second meeting of 1880 was held 

 at Malton for the^exploration of Castle Howard and Hildenley, on Whit- 

 Monday, the 17th of May, and although not so productive of rarities or 

 novelties as was expected, was an interesting and successful meeting. 



