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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS AT BLUBBERHOUSES. 



Vole was the only mammal reported. Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, F.L.S., M.B.O.U., 



supplemented Mr. Backhouse's report by stating that, having had considerable 

 opportunities for noting the avifauna of Washburndale, he found it to comprise 

 47 Resident species, 22 Summer Visitants, 6 Winter Visitants, and 14 Casual 

 Visitants, making a grand total of 74 species. As the result of the day's ramble, and 

 the observations of the six members of the British Ornithologists' Union present, 

 one species — the Greenshank — had been added to his list. As bearing upon what 

 Mr. Knubley had said regarding the influence of the reservoirs on this section of 

 the fauna, he enumerated the following species whose presence in the list was 

 chiefly due to their attractions : the Widgeon, Goldeneye (common), Ringed 

 Plover, Redshank, Greenshank, Oystercatcher, Cormorant, Arctic Tern, the 

 Common and Black-headed Gulls. 



For the Conchological section the report was given by one of its secretaries, 

 Mr. John Emmet, F. L. S. , of Boston Spa, who stated that the members of the section 

 had been singularly unsuccessful, having found three common species only, viz. : — 

 Ariojt hortensis, Limax agrestis, and Zonites cellarms. A search which proved 

 unsuccessful had been made for the rare Limax cmereo-niger in the locality which 

 had yielded it during the past summer. Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., then 

 spoke of the present position of the list of Washburndale mollusks, stating that 

 since the publication of the paper in the Naturalist for August 1883, several 

 species had been added, viz.: — Limax Icevis, L. cinereo-niger, L. maximus^ 

 Limncea auricularia, L. trimcatiila, Pisidiimi pusilhtm, and Cochlicopa htbrica, 

 thus raising the total recorded fauna to 20, a very meagre total, but perhaps as much 

 as one could expect to be found on so unproductive a soil as the millstone grit. 

 Referring to Mr. Knubley's c|uery, Mr. Roebuck pointed out that the occurrence 

 of Limncea attricularia and of the ovate form of Limncea peregra might be 

 regarded as direct results of the formation of the reservoirs, inasmuch as they are 

 forms which would hardly occur in a stream so rapid as the Washburn was before 

 it was dammed up, and it would be of value to note any future tendencies on the 

 part of these species to still further vary in the direction of the lacustrine forms. 



For the Entomological section, the report was made by its president, Mr. 

 Geo. T. Porritt, F.L.S., of Huddersfield, who stated that about 24 species of 

 lepidoptera had been observed during the day, including the following 9 previously 

 unrecorded for the locality: — Arctia ftiligiizosa, larvse abundant on the moors; 

 Satnrnia carpini ; Opoj'abia filig)'ammaria ; Ettpithecia pnlchellata, larvae found 

 plentifully in foxglove seeds by Messrs. John Gardner of Hartlepool, and G. T. 

 Porritt ; Cidaria psittacata (taken by Mr. J. Grassham of Leeds) ; Celcsna 

 Jiauuorthii ; Stenoptejyx hybridalis and Coleop/iora micrinipennella, larvae found by 

 Lord Walsingham ; and lastly, Argyresthia conjiigella, which was one of Mr. 

 Porritt's own captures. In the sectional meeting Lord Walsingham exhibited a case 

 containing a large number of lepidoptera which had been taken during the 

 previous July by Mr, Thomas Eedle, whom his Lordship had had collecting for him 

 on the estate. The captures included the following hitherto unrecorded for the 

 district, making with the 9 taken during the day, 39 additional species : — Satyriis 

 tithomis, Nndaria vuindana^ abundant ; Acidalia incanaria ; Vemisia cambricaria, 

 abundant ; Larentia pectinitaria ; Emmelesia affinitata ; E. alche?nillata ; 

 Melanthia riibigijiata ; M. ocellata ; Cidaria populaia ; C. pyraliata; C. fnlvata ; 

 Letccania impiira ; Crambits pratelhis (nearly as dark as the Unst form) ; C. 

 margaritellus ; Toririx forsterana; Amphysa gerningana\ Sciaphila virgatireana 

 Grapholitha trimMCiilana ; G. penkleriana ; Coccyx ustomactilana ; Xylopoda 

 fabriciana ; Eiipcccilia angustana ; Xanlhosetia hainana ; Conchy lis st7-amimana ; 

 Apheliapratana ; Grapholitha geminana ZM^Dic^'orampha herbosana, both plentiful; 

 Depressaria piilcherrimella, and Pterophorus pterodaciyhis. TheBlubberhouses speci- 

 mens exhibited, and a case of species captured in Norfolk, his lordship kiidly 

 distributed among the members of the section. Three beetles which were found 

 by Lord Walsingham were afterwards determined by Rev. W. C. Hey, M,A., 

 as belonging to Pterostichiis nigrita, Anchotnemis albipes, and Bembidinm littorale. 

 [In this connection it will be of value to give the names of several species fomd 

 by Mr. Rudolph Rosenstock, B.A., on the 5th of July last, mostly in the vicinity 

 of Lindley Wood Reservoir, They are Leistiis fulvibarbis Dj., Calathus 

 inelanocephahis L., Stemis canaliciilatiis GylL, Anobium castaneum Fab., Liosoi.ms 



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