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S OCIALES. 
50. Trigona ruficrus. 
Apis ruficrus, Latr. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. v. p. 176 (1804). 
Bahia, Sept. 1873. 
Sl. Apis mellifica. 
Apis mellifica, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. vol. i. p. 576 (1758). 
Bermuda, April 1873; Sydney, May 1874. 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 
Annual Report and Proceedings of the Belfast Naturalists’ Field 
Club, 1882-83. Ser. 2, vol. ii. part 3. 8vo. 1884, 
Tux Report for the year ending 3lst March, 1883, completes the 
history of the twentieth year of the Society’s existence and work. 
Besides the reports of the several excursions, in which scientific 
research and healthy pleasure appear to have been well combined, 
and of the conversazione and annual meeting, this part contains 
notices of several interesting papers:—on the crannogs at Lough 
Mourne, near Carrickfergus (with an illustrative plate); on the 
stone monuments of Carrowmore, near Sligo; and on Fungi, their 
properties and uses. Mr. Joseph Wright, in occasional notes, men- 
tions some Foraminifera new to.the British fauna, namely Milio- 
lina triangularis, Haplophragmium agqylutinans, and Lagena castren- 
sis, the last hitherto known only on the Australian coast. These 
were dredged by him off Dublin. Also Rhabdogonium tricarinatum 
and Pullenia quinquelola, dredged by Messrs. J. Wright and F. P. 
Blakwill, the first off Lambay Island, in 50 fathoms water, and 
the second at 45 fathoms about 20 miles off Dublin. A Meteoro- 
logical Summary for 1883, and the Appendix vii., consisting of a 
Supplement to a List of Mosses of the North-east of Ireland, by Mr. 
8. A. Stewart, complete this Report. 
Transactions of the Cumberlund Association for the Advancement of 
Literature and Science. No. VII. 1882-83. Edited by J. G. 
Goopcuitp. 8vo. Carlisle: G. and T. Coward. 1883. 
Ir must be a question difficult to settle in the minds of many 
working naturalists how far they should feel grateful to the swarm 
of small local societies and field-clubs in all” parts of the country 
which bring out their Transactions and Proccedings as separate 
and independent publications. In the districts to which the activity 
of these bodies is devoted such publications are doubtless of great 
interest, and the societies gain much credit by their production ; 
but it is rather hard upon the student to have to keep himself up to 
the contents of so many comparatively obscure periodicals on the 
chance of the appearance in their pages, among a mass of material 
