Notes and Comments. 5 
THE ‘ NAMING’ MANIA. 
In The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine for December, 
Mr. Pool states that the insects standing in British lists as 
Ptinus testaceous must all be referred to P. pusillus. Mr. 
Gahan adds that ‘ Mr. Pool’s note, as it stands, may lead to 
continued error. The P. testaceous to which he refers is not 
the P. testaceous of Olivier or Boieldieu, which is a species 
quite distinct from P. pusillus Sturm. = P. pusillus Boield., 
but is merely the species known to British collectors as P. 
testaceous. ... What Mr. Pool has shown in his notes is 
that the female of P. pusillus has been wrongly identified in 
British collections as P. testaceous or P. brunneus.’ On the 
next page Mr. E. R. Newberry points out that ‘ Ochthebius 
power1 is a variety of metallascens Rosen. . . . Inthe Exchange 
List recently published the above note was forgotten, and 
the insect referred to a var. of dentifer Rey, evidently in error.’ 
All these errors and corrections may be very interesting, but 
surely there is some fault or carelessness somewhere. On the 
very next page is the following note by Mr. D. Sharp: 
‘ Meotica extlijormis and M. exillima. Dr. Joy and I are 
‘agreed that these names apply to the same species; the 
explanation being that he is so much occupied that he alto 
gether overlooked the description of exillima.’ It seems a 
pity that those whe have not time to examine previous 
descriptions, should still have time to describe alleged ‘ new 
species ’ which so soon after require correcting. 
AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 3 
The Royal Botanical Garden, Kew, have issued a Bulletin 
(No. 8, 1915), by Miss E. M. Wakefield, on ‘ A Collection of 
Fungi from Australia and New Zealand.’ This is devoted to 
a description of a collection formed by the President of the 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, Mr. W. N. Cheesman, while 
with the British Association in 1914. The collection has 
been presented to Ikew, and Miss Wakefield describes a number 
of new species, which are figured on two plates. Two of these 
are named after Mr. Cheesman, viz., Heterochaete Cheesmanit 
and Pentophora Cheesmani.. 
GEOLOGY OF SCARBOROUGH ; 
After 33 years the Geological Survey has issued a second 
edition of the Memoir dealing with the geology of the country 
between, Whitby and Scarborough. Since the first edition 
(1882, 60 pages), many important publications have appeared, 
mostly from the pens of amateurs, and these have necessitated 
the Memoir being entirely re-written. This has been done 
under the supervision of Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, the Memoir 
itself being prepared by the late C. Fox-Strangways, and Mr. 
G. Barrow. There is also a chapter on ‘ The Palzontological 
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