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A tiote on Aijabus tiie/nnarius Ait/>e. — Mr. Bed well, in nntinino' the 

 localities for this species (antea, p. 13), has oveiluokecl a record (Eiit. Mo. JMag. 

 XX xi, p. 100) of the capture of one specimen by Mr. M. L. Thompson at Arn- 

 clirte Woods, near Whitby, the identification of which was confirmed by 

 Dr. Sharp. — T. Hudson Beare, 10 Retrent Terrace, Edinburgh : July 11(21. 



A note on Limnehius aluta Bedel, — In view of the note by Mr. Champion 

 avted, p. 38) I carefully examined my series of so-called piciims Marsh., and 

 found none with an apiciiUy bordered elytral suture. My specimens were 

 all taken at Stalham, Norfolk. It is desirable to point out that Marsham 

 himself, in his description oi picinus, which is very short and. consists of five 

 words only, does not say a word about the elyti-al suture, but probably 

 Mr. Champion's suggestion, in view of the absence of any type, is a wise 

 one — that is, to ignore picinus altogether. — T. H. Beare, 



Philo7ithtis corvinus Er., etc., at Aherlady. — On April 30th, a brilliantly hut 

 sunny day, I paid a visit to GuUane to work the sand-hills. 1 found practic 'liy 

 all the species which occurred on the same day in 1920, but much less com- 

 monly. The only addition was Tacky poms solutus, in moss on an old stone 

 wall, a species I have never found before in Scotland. After leaving the 

 sand-hills I crossed Aberlady links, and, by working the thick moss round a 

 weed-choked pond, found a number of interesting species, including Fliilonthus 

 corvinus Er., P. viicans Gray., Gymnusa varieyata Kies., G. hreuicollis Payk., 

 31yllaena dnbia Grav., Cerycon minutus Muls., and Ptenidium ftiscicorne Er. 

 Encouraged by the result of this work, I paid two other visits on May 7th 

 and 14th — each visit, owing to the failure of the train service due to the coal 

 strike, involving a walk of nine or ten miles — to secure more of P. corvinus, 

 and in this I was successful ; in addition to the above species, I found 

 Chaetarthria seminulmn Herbst in prolusion and Myllaena infuscuta Matth. 

 J indicated this locality to my friend Mr. W. Evans, and he visited it about a 

 fortnight later, but the disastrous drought bad played havoc with the nios.s. 

 He only found one, P. corvinus, but in lieu of this speci'^s turned up a fair 

 number of P. vernalis Grav. in the piles of moss I had pulled up, and in the 

 f w pieces of damp moss he could still find. — T. H. Beare. 



Gryllus domesticus outside houses. — Referring to Mr. B. P. Uvarov's iu- 

 terestiiig paper on Gryllus domesticus in the June number of this journal, 

 pp. 138-140, it may be worth while recording that near Kirkheaton, a village 

 some three miles from Huddersfield, there is an extensive refuse-dump — or, as 

 it is termed here, a " tip," — which for years was, and I suppose still is, " alive" 

 with crickets. The " tip" has been formed by the refuse from the railway, and 

 for many years has been on fire in several parts, and 1 am told that repeated 

 attempts to extinguish the tires have been unavailing. The consequence is 

 that the heat is probably very similar to that of a kitchen hearth, and the 

 crickets revel in it. On warm still evenings their chirping can be heard for a 

 considerable distance. There are no houses in the immediate vicinity, so 

 probably the insects were introduced along with the railway refuse when it 

 was thrown out. — Geo. T, Pohuitt, Elm Lea, Dalfon, Hudderstield : July 1th, 

 1921. 



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