Diary. —Meetings of Societies. 



October 2. Hudders-field Naturalists' Society, 8 p.m. 

 ,, 5. Leeds Naturalists' Club, &c. 



,, Liversedge Naturalists' Society. 

 ,, ,, Bishop Auckland Naturalists' Society. 

 ,, 6. Wakefield Naturalists' Society. 



8. Huddersfield Scientific Club, 8 p.m. 

 ,, 12. Leeds Naturalist's Club, &c.— Botanical and Microscopical 

 Sections. 



„ 13. York and District Naturalists' Field Club. 

 ,, 14. Dewsbury Naturalists' Society. 



18. Huddersfield N aturalists' Society . 

 „ ,, Manchester Cyptogamic Society, 7-30 p.m. 



,, 19. Leeds Naturalists' Club, &c. — Entomological and Vertebrate 

 Sections. 



., North Sta.ffordshire Naturalists' Field Club. — Excursion to 

 Chester. Leader, Mr. L^-uam. 

 ,, 25. Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. 

 ,, 26. Leeds Naturalists' Club, &c. — Lecture on " The Fossil Flora of 

 the Halifax Hard Bed," by WHliam Cash, F.G.S., of Halifax. 

 „ 30. Huddersfield Naturalists' Society. 



LIVING larvae of S. Ligvstri, C. Elpenor. 3s., C. Porcellus, 4s., A. Urticce 

 2s., Unifasciata, Is. 6d. per dozen, Pup^, Ligustvi, Elpenor, Tilice, Vimda, 

 Ad.; PorccUi's, D. Euphorbiau Podalirius, 6d.; D. Galii, Is. 3d. each; and many 

 others during the autumn. List sent on aj^plication. Fine sj)ecimens oi Anticpa, 

 ^Euphorhirc, Chry.^eis, Virgaurea, Acts, Dapiidice, Dorylvs, PodaHrius, 6d.; 

 Apollo, Pinastri, 8d.; Galii, Uuntera, Is. each." All weU set, British style. 

 SOrders of 5s. and upwards, carriage free. Corked collecting boxes, 6d., 9d., and 

 Is. each. Postage 2d. A large stock of British Lepidopteia, Exotic Silk Moths, 

 .Birds' Eggs,, &c. Lists free. 



J". &D W. IDJL^IS, 



Naturalists, Hytha Street, Dartford, Kent. 



fRA NSA C HONS oftheYORKSHIRE NA JURA LIS TS' UNION.^ 



PART I. FOP 1877, contains the commencement of "The Birds of Yorkshire,' 

 ' y Mr. "W. E. Clarke, IM.B.O U. ; of an "Annotated List of the Land and Fresh- 

 water Molhisca of Yorkshii-e," by Messrs. "NVm. Nelson and J. W. Taylor; a 

 ;complete list of Yorkshire H^mienoptera, "with references to literature of that 

 order, by Mr. W. Denison Roebuck ; a paper on " Yorkshu'e Macro-lepidoptera 

 % 1877," by Mr. G. T. PoiTitt, F.L.S. ; one on " Yorkshire Micro-lepidoptera 

 1877," by Mr. Wm. Prest ; papers by Mr. S. L. Mosley, on "Yorkshire Diptera," 

 nd on the Yorkshire species of Hemiptera of the Family PsyllidcB ; and a 

 eport on Yorkshire Botany in 1877, by Dr. H. F. Parsons, F.G.S. 

 PARTS II. AND III. FOR 1878 contain the continuations of Mr. Clarke's 

 irds of Yorkshire, and of Messrs. Nelson and Taylor's Land and Fresh-water 

 Mollusca of Yorkshire ; an elaborate report on Yorkshire Botany in 1878, by 

 r. Parsons; the commencement of Dr. Parsons' "Moss-Flora of the East- 

 iding " ; papers on Yorkshire Lepidoptera in 1878, by Mr. Porritt, F.L.S, ; on 

 "orkshire I<:hncainomdcE, \)j 'Mv. S. D. Bairstow, F.L.S.; and on Yorkshire 

 ynienoptera, observed in 1878, by Mr. 17. Denison Eoebuck. 

 PART IV. FOR 1879, in preparation.— Amongst papers in preparation for 

 "ture parts is a Catalogue of Yorkshire Lepido^jtera, to be written by Messrs, 

 T. Porritt, F.L.S., and AY. Prest. 



The Teansactioxs are supplied to subscribers of 5/- and upwards annually 

 the funds of the LTnion. Intending subscribers are invited to send their names 

 either of the Secretaries. 



Geo. Bkook, ter, F.L.S., Fernbrook, \ 



Edgerton, Huddersfield, 

 W. Denison Roebuck, Sunny Bank, j' 

 Leeds, ^ 



