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The Naturalist. 



405th Meeting, Nov. dth., Mr. H. Liipton, v. p., in the chair. — Micro- 

 scopical display by Mr. T. Emsley. Mr. H. Pollard showed Limnoe.a 

 Ijeregra var. ovata, and L. auricularia from Hornsey ; L. stagnalis, var. 

 labiata from Hammersmith ; and L. peregra from Sleights, and Saltburn- 

 by-the-Sea, in which latter locality they were taken in a brackish stream, 

 the examples shown being coated with a confervoid growth. Mr. W. B. 

 Turner, F.C.S., showed two sea-nrchins from Flamborongh, Echinus 

 miliaris and E. pnrpureus. Mr. Lupton exhibited Anchocelis Utura, two 

 light-yellow specimens of X6f.7if/iia/erru(/i'/iea, Noctna xanthographa, very 

 red examples of N. baja, and Boarinia rhomhoidaria, all from Newlay ; 

 Cidaria immanata from the Isle of Arran, N.B. ; C. rnssata and Eubolia 

 mensuraria, from Bishop's Wood. Mr. C. Smethurst showed a long 

 series of variations, some very pronounced, in a single batch of Arctia caja 

 which he had bred. He also remarked the unusual abundance of larvae 

 of Trijohcena pronuba in his garden at Burley, and described the life 

 history of the celery fly {Tephritis onopordinis) as observed there. 



406th Meeting, Nov. 16th, president in chair. — Letter from F. G. S. 

 E.awson'' read, noting late swallow (see p. 76). Mr. James Abbot 

 exhibited desmids and freshwater algae {Staurastrum, Hyalotheca, Cos- 

 marium, Closterinm, S.^jC.). Mr. W. Barwell Turner, F.C.S., a gathering 

 made by Mr. A. W. Wills, at Capelcurig, Sept. 30th, of desmids, it has 

 yielded about fifty species, of which ten or twelve are new to England, 

 and several entirely undescribed. Among the rarities were Staurastrum, 

 ophiurce, S. Brasiliense, S. Pringsheimii, Docibium nodosum, &c. Mr. J. 

 W. Dixon showed potato-fungus {Peronospora infestans), and galls. 

 Mr. F. Emsley showed insects under the microscope. Mr. C. Smethurst 

 showed beetles and Apamea unauimis larvae from Thorp Hall, near 

 Knostrop. Mr. H. Pollard showed Surrey specimens of H elix pomatia, 

 and a distorted Anodonta cygnea from Boundhay. Mr. William 

 Nelson exhibited Helix labyrinthica (Say) — fossil from the Eocene, Isle 

 of Wight, and recent from Wisconsin, U.S.A. — Wm. Denison Boebctck. 



Ovenden Naturalists' Society. — Monthly meeting, October 30th. — 

 — A number of geological specimens were exhibited by Mr. S. Cockroft 

 from Bingby quarries, viz. : — Calamites cannoeformis and Halonia regidaris, 

 also a few specimens from Hailsworth Moor, near BijDley, Middle Dale, 

 sent to Mr. Sutclifie, and pectens from the oolite. Mr. T. Hirst exhibited 

 a fine specimen of a young leopard shot by a Clayton gentleman in Africa, 

 and a barn owl shot by Mr. Fletcher, of Midgley. — J oseph Ogden, Sec. 



Wakefield Field Naturalists' Society. — Monthly meeting, Nov. 

 3rd, the xDresident (Mr. J. Wainwright, F.L.S.,) in the chair. — Mr. Sims 

 showed A. occulta dark form, H. rectilinea, P. interrogationis, two forms 

 of 0. dilutata, and a female specimen of D. templi. Mr. Marson rejDorted 

 the hoopoe {Upv.pa epops, L.), shot at Crof ton, October 29th. — J. W. 

 Shaw, Hon. Sec. 



