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These are duly recorded in The Naturalist for October. It was 
decided to hold the next Annual Meeting at Whitby (18th to 
22nd September would appear to be the most favourable time). 
The work at the Hull Museum has made steady progress during 
the year, ten more species having been added since December. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 
Lepidoptera.— Messrs. A. Whitaker and B. Morley report: — 
All notes and information received confirm our opinion that the 
past season has been an exceptionally bad one for lepidopterists. 
Larvae have been scarce, and “ sugaring ” has been very un- 
productive almost to the end of the season. In spite of the dry 
summer P. brassiere, P. rapes, and P. napi have been very scarce. 
Vanessa atalanta, however, has been unusually abundant in many 
districts during the autumn. Colias edusa was reported from 
Bridlington, Hull, and Spurn during September. Melanie Phigalia 
pilosaria were abundant in spring, and this form is unanimously 
spoken of as being on the increase. Four or five melanic 
specimens of H. Icucophcaria were taken in the Barnsley district. 
.[crony da psi was plentiful near Wakefield, a dark suffused form 
predominating. Black Fidonia atomaria were taken on the 
Meltham and Penistone moors. Wild larvse of Abraxas grossu- 
lariata have produced var. varleyata at Barnsley and var. itigro- 
sparsata at Huddersfield. A few black Agrotis agathina were 
bred from caterpillars found in the Skelmanthorpe district. Two 
species not previously recorded from Skelmanthorpe district have 
been taken in that neighbourhood, i.c., Eupithecia lariciata, 
taken at Shepley by Dr. H. Douglas Smart, and Orthosia macilenta. 
The great abundance of Plitsia gamma during September is 
worthy of note. With the advent of October, sugar, in the West 
Riding at least, began to have more attraction for moths, and 
at Skelmanthorpe, among the vast crowds of Cerastis vaccinia 
which came to it night after night, there were also taken a few 
specimens of Agrotis saitcia, A. suffusa, Cerastis spadicea, Calo- 
campa exolcta, and Agriopis aprilina — the latter of a bronze 
form. Scopelosoma satellita and Phlogophora meticulosa were 
both abundant. Xanthia aurago has occurred near Wakefield 
and Skelmanthorpe, and four specimens of Aplccta occulta were 
taken at ‘ sugar ’ at Wakefield. 
Coleoptera Committee. — Mr. E. G. Bayford writes that 
the prolonged heat and drought which prevailed throughout 
the summer resulted in beetles, even the commonest species, 
being decidedly scarcer than usual. 
During the year nineteen species have been added to 
the county list, while forty-eight species were new to the 
county division from which they were recorded. This result, 
while not as rich in novelties as last year’s, is yet very far from 
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