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ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION ANNUAL MEETING. 
Members of the Entomological and Plant Galls Sections of the Y.N.U., 
met at the Leeds Museum, on Saturday, October 15th. Mr. J. M. Brown, 
B. Sc., F.L.S., presided. Tokens of respect were paid to the late Mr. B. 
Morley and Mr. Beanland, former active members of the Section. 
The afternoon meeting was devoted to a most interesting and varied 
exhibition of specimens. 
Mr. Bayford shewed the scarce Blethisa multipunctata from a new 
station near Barnsley, and members discussed its distribution in the 
county. For Mr. Wood, of Keighley, Mr. Bayford exhibited a beautifully 
set series of county Coleoptera containing some rare and interesting 
insects. Material in other orders collected by Mr. Wood was shown, all 
characterised by the same meticulous care in mounting. Mr. Wood has 
liberally distributed this material for determination, and it is hoped 
that the results will appear in these pages. 
Mr. Cheetham exhibited an interesting series of Diptera from the 
Austwick district, and discussed the restricted season of several of the 
species. Dicranomyia aperta Mr. Cheetham has found associated with 
grass of Parnassus and only to be found during the very limited flowering 
period of that plant. Besides Orimarga alpina, Tipula caerulescens , 
Spania nigra, and Ptiolina nigra, Mr. Cheetham showed the three closely 
allied Daddy-long-legs, Tipula paludosa, oleracea and czizeki and the 
male and female of the common T. fulvipennis , together with a male 
showing female wing and leg characters on one side. 
Mr. Thompson showed interesting Coleoptera and Hemiptera. 
Agabus femoralis Pk. from Upper Teesdale ; Mycetoporus splendidus 
Grav., Redcar ; Arpedium brachypterum Grav., Ingleby-in-Cleveland ; 
Lesteva luctuosa Fauv., Northumberland ; Rhizophagus parallelo colli s 
Gy 11 ., and R. cribratus Gyll., Co. Durham ; Priobium eichoffi Ld., 
Kildale-in -Cleveland ; Barypethes araneiformis Shr., and Hydronomus 
alismatis Marsh., from Co. Durham. 
The Hemiptera comprised Corixa semistriata Fieb., Co. Durham, 
C. carinata Sahib., Upper Wensleydale, Deltocephalus sabulicola Curt, 
from Redcar and Aphalava exilis Web., and Mohr., Northumberland. 
On behalf of Miss Pilkington, Mr. Brown showed galls and sawflies of 
Pontania salicis. 
Mr. W. P. Winter gave an account of spider habits and exhibited 
the larva of a Carabid beetle (? Pterostichus ) obtained whilst searching 
for ‘ leather -jackets.' 
Mr. A. E. Winter passed round a series of delightful photographs and 
photo -micrographs of insect subjects, which were much praised by 
members. 
Mr. J. R. Dibb exhibited a series of Yorkshire mayflies and nymphs 
preserved in spirit, and showed some recent entomological literature, 
including Dr. Joy’s ‘ Practical Handbook of the British Beetles.’ A 
series of European Carabids of the sub-family Chlaeninae and some 
striking beetles from Wicken Fen were also shown by Mr. Dibb. 
Some little-known neotropical Odonata were exhibited by Mr. Hincks, 
together with some of the modern literature on the species of this 
region. Mr. Hincks also passed round some interesting Yorkshire and 
other Diptera, including several uncommon local species captured during 
1932, and a possible new British species of the mayfly genus Rhithrogena. 
The President, Mr. J. M. Brown, had a fine series of species of 
Psocoptera, many of them Yorkshire forms. Amongst specimens of 
Hemiptera, Mr. Brown exhibited eight species of Idiocerus and two 
recently-discovered Yorkshire Plecoptera, Amphinemura Standfussi and 
Leuctra moselyi. 
The evening meeting was devoted to the reading of reports and to 
the nomination of officers. 
The Naturalist 
