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from that of castigata, and has therefore appropriately named it 

 jasioneata. Through the kindness of Mr. N, Cooke, I have recently 

 added a nice Crymodes exulis to my collection ; it was taken this year at 

 Glen Spean, in Scotland. I have also received series of Pteropliorus 

 osteodactylus, and the very local P. Icetus, taken this season in North 

 Devon, by Mr. South. Two days ago also, I received a batch of larvse 

 from Mr. Fletcher, who found them on Stachys sijlvatica at Freshwater. 

 There is no doubt they are those of Ebulea stachydalis, and if so, this 

 adds another to the only two or three British habitats of the species. — 

 Geo. T. Porritt. 



Barnsley ^Naturalists' Society. — Meeting Aug. 30th, Mr. J.Harrison 

 in the chair. — The secretary, W. E. Brady, exhibited slides of the 

 winged and wingless females and the pupa skin of Aphis hmssicce. Our 

 entomological record for the year will include Tethea suhtusa an addition 

 to the local list, Aplecta occulta and others. A large number of insects 

 were exhibited at the sectional meeting : — Procris geryon, Hyria 

 auroraria, Acidalia straminata taken by R. Creighton at Thorne Moor, 

 and Anthomyia hetce, the mangold fly. 



Meeting Sep. 13th, the president, Mr. A. R. Kell, C. E., in the chair, 

 who exhibited a pipe fish taken in the Ribble, sent by Mr. W. Moore, 

 now of Southport ; a boring beetle sent by Mr. Young, found in Norway 

 timber at Monk Bretton Colliery ; a preserved toad, found in the garden 

 of Mr. G. H. Teasdale, Silkstone. The ornithological report gives few 

 migrants : — Swallows, house martins, sand martins, abound up to the 

 present in the streets and watery places in the country. Mr. Lister 

 noted all four kinds in the week of the British Association at York ; he 

 last noted the willow warbler's song in the grounds of St. Mary's Abbey ; 

 he saw the redstart in Lunn Wood, Aug. 18th ; a young cuckoo occurred 

 as late as Sep. 3rd, and a male nightjar at Darfield still later in its stay, 

 Sep. 13th ; on the 4th young martins were in the nest at Brierley. 

 Of residents, a robin's nest with young remains up to the present date. 

 Magpies, jackdaws, pied wagtails, meadow pipits noted at Dunford 

 Bridge, on the 17th. Thrushes, blackbirds, scarce this summer, came in 

 numbers to the mountain-ash berries, Aug. 25th. We hear and see a 

 few bullfinches, and recently a goldfinch, in country gardens and fields. — 

 T. Lister. 



Bradford JSTaturalists' Society.— Meeting August 30 th, Mr. W, 

 Jagger in the chair. — Mr. H. T. Soppitt exhibited Zannichellia macro- 

 stemon, Xenodochus carhonarius, Puccinia graminis, &c. A ramble to Bury 

 St. Edmunds was described by Mr. Bennett who exhibited a number of 

 insects and plants, amongst the latter being Clematis vitalba. Mr. West 

 exhibited all the British orchids, with one or two exceptions, and several 



