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

 at West Vale, on the 6th inst., the president in the chair. — There was a 

 good table of autumnal flora, which were named by Messrs. C. C. Hanson 

 and J. Fielding. Mr. A. Kij)pax showed yellow barred burying beetle, 

 Necrophorus vespillo. — W. H. Stott, September, 1880. 



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

 president, in the chair. — Mr. George Brook exhibited some large petrified 

 specimens of Hijpnum commutatum from Kisden Force, Swaledale ; they 

 were completely calcified and in splendid condition. The chairman 

 shewed an educational entomological collection which, when complete, 

 will embrace all orders of insects, with printed explanations, &c. ; it was 

 greatly admired, the diptera especially being very good. Mr. G. T. 

 Porritt, larvse of Cosmopteryx Drurella, received by him that day from the 

 south of England ; also a series of Pterophorus trigonodactylus ; Mr. J. B. 

 Little wood a species of bird spider, found in a chest of tea from China, 

 on the 10th inst. With the aid of the microscope Mr. Brook also shewed 

 the following algse : — (Edogonium capillar e in conjugation ; Mastigonema 

 orsinianum from Anglesea (see Field, July 31st, 1880) ; Chantransia 

 investiens parasitic on Batracliospenmmi moniliforme ; Eydrocytum oh- 

 tusum from Bangor ; Batrachospermum helmintosum from Lough Fea, 

 Ireland ; Vaucheria geminataajid Nitella opaca from Armagh. 



The Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association. —394th 

 meeting, Aug. 24th, Mr. B. Holgate, F.G.S., president, in the chair. — Mr. 

 H. Pollard showed Australian ants, and eggs of British birds. Mr. John 

 Grassham was also an exhibitor of eggs. Mr. W. Howgate showed 

 various exotic animals taken alive in a cargo of logwood at Goole, 

 imported from San Domingo ; these included a gecko lizard, scorpions, 

 centipedes, millepedes, and spiders of the genera Phrynus and Mygale. 

 Mr. W. Barwell Turner, F.C.S., showed the tracheae of a centipede, 

 spiracles of Dyticus marginalis, and the larva of an Elater. Mr. J. W. 

 Dixon exhibited numerous microscopic slides, including a male house 

 spider {Cinijlo similis). Mr. Roebuck showed Sirex gigas, taken in 

 Leeds. Mr. John Grassham had a batch of feeding larvae of Orgyia 

 fascelina from Skegness, where they feed on sea-buckthorn (Hippophae 

 rhamnoides). Mr. Henry Lupton, M.E.S., exhibited Cidaria immanata, 

 G. pnmata, C. miaria, Larentia didymata, and larvae of Odontopera 

 hidentata from Chapel AUerton. Mr. C. Smethurst showed Tpsipetes 

 elutata and Cosmia trapezina (Scholes), Plusia chrysitis, Cidaria fidvata, 

 and Hypena prohoscidalis (Ledstone), Larentia didymata (bred, Nickle- 

 field), Xanthia citrago (Farnley, near Leeds), Noctua haja (Mean Wood), 

 ToHrix Forsterana (Burley, Leeds), Ebidea samhucalis (Honley), Scoparia 

 murana (Honley), and S. coarctalis (Blake Lee). 



395f H Meeting, August 31st, the president in the chair. — Mr. 

 W. Barwell Turner, F.C.S., read a paper entitled "A few remarks on 

 Fish Parasites." In illustration he exhibited a number of specimens, and 



