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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION: 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 
The Annual Meeting of this section was held at Leeds, Dr. E. O. Croft 
presiding. Reports of the various committees were read. A sup- 
plementary report on lepidoptera included the following records : — 
Second broods of Caradrina quadripunctata and Agrotis segetunt at Shelley 
in October (Dr. H. D. Smart), Thera obeliscata and T . firmata at Skipwith 
in August (Rev. C. D. Ash), Dianthoecia carpophaga at Huddersfield, 
where the species is new (Mr. G. T. Porritt). Mr. T. Ashton Lofthouse 
found Thecla rubi as noticeably early on April 12th at Glaisdale, a 
specimen of Nemophila noctuella taken in his garden at Linthorpe he 
thinks is possibly a migrant. He also took Coccyx argyrana and C. 
splendidulana at Ingleby Greenhow in April, and bred Poedisca semi- 
fasciana from Askham Bog ; a single specimen of Glyphypteryx haworthana 
at Pilmoor and G. equitella at Wycliff on the Yorkshire side of the Tees. 
Mr. Ash again found Nonagria arundineta and its variety dissoluta in 
the Wharfe valley. Mr. Walter Greaves found Epinephele ianira in 
Crimsworth Dene, Hebden Bridge, on July 9th ; this species does not 
seem to have been noticed for some years in the South Western part of 
the county. 
Dr. H. D. Smart exhibited a series of Pieris napi from Portugal and 
the Cambridge Fens, a melanic Noctua xanthographa from Shelley, and 
a series each of Zygaena lonicerae and Z . filipendulae , along with specimens 
that apparently are hybrids between them, from Filey, and Z . hippo- 
crepidis and Z. trifolii for comparison. 
Mr. B. Morley showed a series each of A crony da menyanthides with a 
melanic form from the West Riding Moors ; Noctua glareosa and its var. 
rosea ; extremely variable Triphaena fimbria ; melanic, and melanic 
rufescens forms, of Cidaria truncata ; Peronea ferrugana and Ter as 
contaminana, all from the West Riding ; and Sesia andreniformis with its 
mine and pupae from Surrey. 
Mr. E. G. Bayford showed Sir ex juvencus from Barnsley, the fourth 
British specimen, all four have been taken in South West Yorkshire ; he 
also showed agamic form and galls of Biorhiza pallida from Cawthorne, 
and Pentatoma prasina from Barnsley. 
Mr. F. Rhodes passed round Bombus distinguendus, a social bee 
from Sunny Dale, and Notoneda maculosa and N . glauca from Heaton ; 
and Didyonota crassicornis, Sunny Dale. 
Mr. C. A. Cheetham made interesting reference to the work done 
among Diptera and showed examples of the following, all additions to 
the County list : — Pachyrrhina scurra Mg. ; Urellia stellata Fuessl., 
Skipwith ; Toxoneura muliebris Harr. ; N eottiophilum praeustum Mg., 
Farnley ; Euaresta conjunda Lis., Allerthorpe ; Phaeomyia fuscipennis 
Mg. ; Conops flavipes L., Nidd ; Xylota lentaMg. ; Ardoptera irrorata Yall., 
Rawdon ; Tipula signata- Staeg. ; Oxycera pardalina ; Theriopledes 
montanus Mg. ; Didea intermedia Lu. ; Dexia vacua F. ; Helomyza variegata 
Ln., Austwick ; Hydrophorus borealis Ln., Helwith Moss ; Pipunculus 
littoralis Bkr., Redcar ; and Syrphus annulipes Ztt. from Pateley Bridge. 
Mr. W. Falconer handed round many Yorkshire galls, comprising 
species of Hymenoptera, Diptera, Homoptera and Mites, in situ on their 
pabulae. The most interesting were : — Hymenoptera : Isosoma gramini- 
cola Gix. on couch grass, new to Britain ; Diptera : Perrisia acer crisp ans 
Kieff . on maple, and Rhopalomyia tanaceticola Karsch. on tansy, new to 
Yorks. ; Lipara lucens Mgn., and larva, on Phragmitis communis, new to j 
the North of England. Atrichosema aceris Kieff. on maple, new to the I 
North of England. Homoptera : Pemphigus filaginis Boyer, on black 
poplar, new to Yorks., and Asterodiaspis quercicola Bche. on oak, new to 
the North of England. 
Mr. W. J. Fordham exhibited the following : — Coleoptera : Hydro- 
porus borealis and Helophorus porculus from Sandsend ; Ocyusa maura, 
Stenus carbonarius and 5 . argus, three species new to Yorkshire, from 
Bubwith ; Haltica britteni from Ravenscar. Hymenoptera : Ammophila 
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