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a pallid hairy membrane, with a slight ridge along the 

 middle, which projects as a little lobe into the central sinus 

 of the hinder margin. The posterior half of the fovea is 

 completely filled with a transverse pale tubercle. From the 

 hinder margin of the fovea springs a little spathulate process, 

 nearly vertical, attaining the same height as the adjacent 

 tubercle. 



One adult female, Altyre woods, Forres, August 1910. 



Note. 



The above species is to be added to my " List of Spiders 

 collected at Forres" {Annals of Scottish Nat. Hist., April 

 191 1 ), from which list the following names must be removed : — 



Lycosa sp. n. (harrisonii, Hull). This spider proved to be simply 

 L. lugubris Walck. 



Lycosa arenicola Cb. The spiders recorded under this name were 

 all females, and, apart from colour, I know of no character by 

 which they may be distinguished from L. arenicola Cb. I took 

 both sexes of this variety, however, on the Northumbrian coast 

 opposite Holy Island, in May 191 1, and found that though 

 strikingly different from typical Lycosa agricola Thor. in colora- 

 tion, they are in everything else identical with that species. I 

 have therefore given to this form the varietal name of maritime 

 {Trans. Northumberland, etc., Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. iv., p. 45). 



NOTES 



Badger in Lanarkshire. — A female badger was killed in June 

 191 t, by Thomas Corson, gamekeeper, on Cowhill farm, about four 

 miles E. of Crawford. — Hugh S. Gladstone, Capenoch, Thornhill, 

 Dumfriesshire. 



Bird Notes from Berwickshire. — Coccothraustes 

 vulgaris. A pair of Hawfinches were frequently seen in my 

 garden in the town of Duns during last spring. They were feeding 

 on the kernels of wild-cherry stones, which were plentifully scattered 

 on the ground under a tree that had produced a large crop of fruit 

 the previous season. After this supply of food had been exhausted 

 the birds were not seen, but that they were still about was evident 

 from the havoc that was wrought all the summer amongst the peas. 



