no South-west Yorkshire Entomological Society. 
Recorder, F. T. Brooks. Secretary, Prof. J. McLean Thompson. 
Local Secretary, J. F. Robinson, Estcourt Street Council 
School, Hull, 
Education: — President, Sir R. Gregor}/, Editor of Nature. 
Recorder, D. Berridge. Secretaries , C. E. Browne, Dr. Lilian 
J. Clarke. Local Secretary, Dr. J. T. Riley, Director of 
Education, Hull. 
Agriculture : — President, the Rt. Hon. Lord Bledisloe, § 
Lydney Park. Recorder , C. G. T. Morison. Secretary, Dr. G. 
Scott Robertson. Local Secretary , J. Strachan, Laurel Avenue, 
Perth Street, Hull. 
The other officials for the Hull Meeting are : — Hon. Local 
Secretaries , H. A. Learoyd, M.A., LL.B., Town Clerk ; T. 
Sheppard, M.Sc., Museums Curator ; Hon. Local Treasurer, 
T. G. Milner, City Treasurer ; Rooms Secretary , J. V. Saunders, 
M.A., Hull. 
Forms of application for membership should be obtained 
from Mr. Sheppard. 
SOUTH-WEST YORKSHIRE ENTOMOLOGICAL 
SOCIETY. 
The Annual Meeting was held at Huddersfield, on January 23rd, 1922, 
at the invitation of Mr. G. T. Porritt. The president, Mr. B. Morley, 
was in the chair. Mr. Mosley, the Curator of the new Huddersfield 
Museum, made an appeal for the co-operation of the Society in working 
out the entomology ot the district, and supplying material for the museum 
collections. 
Exhibits — Mr. G. T. Porritt, a specimen of Ptychoptera minuta, taken 
by himself at Hornsea, Yorks., June, 1908, probably the earliest known 
example of this crane-fly. Mr. B. Morley, various hepialids including 
the whitish Wicken form of H . lupulinus , and H . humuli var. thuleus ; 
JLarentia concinnata Arran, and varied series of L. truncata including 
ab. rufescens from Skelmanthorpe ; Lygvis populata ab. mausauaria from 
Penistone ; Acronicta meny anthidis ab. suffusa, a second brood specimen 
from Penistone ; aberrations of Agrotis nigricans, Lygvis testata and 
Ephyra pendulavia. Mr. Mosley, a collection of micro-lepidoptera taken . ; 
at Diggle by Mr. F. Buckley. Mr.. E. A. Smith, a long series showing 
range of variation in Agrotis fimbria Elland, 1921, one specimen having 
the black band of the hindwings traversed by black rays. Mr. E. 
Cocker, aberrations of Arctia caja, one with yellow and one with heavily 
suffused hindwings. Mr. J . Hooper, series of hybernids including melanic 
H . leucophearia and H . aurantiavia ab. fuscata. Mr. W. Buckley, Euchloe 
cardamines £ with the patches of a faded lemon colour, a faint subterminal 
grey streak and a grey streak prolonging discal spot to costa. Mr. W. 
Dyson, two aberrant specimens of Pyrameis at al ant a, portions of the 
bands in one being of a bright orange colour. Mr. T. Fisher, aberrations 
of Xanthia lutea having the ‘ pink bar ’ intensified and brown in colour ; 
aberrations of Wpraxas grossidariaM,. includingub. nigrosparsata. Dr. H. 
D. Smart, a series of Camptograkima bilineata including ab. atlantica 
and ab. isol.ata ; Ennomos quevcinaria, banded and melanic forms ; melanic 
forms of Hemerophila abruptaria, Tephrosia consonaria, and Acidalia 
vivgularia. Mr. Porritt, as far as time allowed, showed portions of his 
collection of British lepidoptera, a description of which is beyond the 
scope of these notes. — H. D. Smart. 
Naturalist 
