Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union: Annual Report, 1915. 41 
etc., and have been found to be so generally attacked as to 
suggest that a considerable proportion of the local crop of birch 
seed is destroyed by this means. 
Records of Hymenoptera appeared in the reports of the 
Union’s meetings at Settle and Hebden Bridge. 
ARACHNIDA.—Mr. W. Falconer writes :—Coast collecting 
has been barred, but satisfactory results have been obtained 
elsewhere. Records of the arachnida taken at the various 
places visited by the Union or by some member or other of 
the Arachnida Committee during the year, have already 
been published in The Naturalist: Sawley, July and November ; 
Settle, Bishop Wood, and Hebden Bridge, September. In 
these lists the rarer species were particularised. With respect 
to captures not yet reported on, Lophocarenum nemorale Bl., 
from an old barn at Dean Head, Scammonden, Huddersfield, 
is new to the West Riding ; the false scorpion Chernes panzeri 
C. L. Koch, occurs in a similar habitat at Barrett, Slaithwaite, 
at an elevation of 1,000 feet. Mr. Stainforth gives Houghton 
Woods near Market Weighton as a station for the harvestman 
Megabunus insignis Meade, new to the East Riding, and as an 
additional station in the same division for Crustulina guttata 
Camb., and Evarcha falcata Bl., all commonly. Mr. Bayford 
forwarded a living adult 2 Heliophanus cupreus Walck., taken 
in a merchant’s office in the centre of Barnsley. Cornicularia 
karpinsku Camb., recorded by Mr. Harrison in his paper, 
“New and Rare Yorkshire Spiders,’ The Naturalist, January, 
pp. 26-27, is unfortunately an error of designation. The 
specimens were so named at first by the Rev. O. Pickard Cam- 
bridge, but on closer examination were found to be undoubted 
C. kochit Camb., which had previously occurred in the same 
locality. C. karpinskiit Camb., must therefore be deleted 
from our list ; the station, too (within the breakwater at Tees 
mouth) was not a very likely one. The statement in the same 
paper with regard to the genus Bathyphantes in Cleveland 
is hardly correct. B. setiger F.O.P.Cb. has not yet been met 
with there, or not recorded ; and B. explicatus Camb. is known 
only from the type g from Kew Gardens. 
The only additions to the county list during the year con- 
sist of a number of mites collected by Messrs. Harrison and 
Winter and myself, several of which are, judging from our 
present knowledge of them, rare, and one, Smaridia papillosa 
Herm., from Royal Clough, Scammonden, is probably the 
first British example. 
CONCHOLOGICAL SECTION. 
Mr. Greevz Fysher writes:—Some excursions have had to 
be abandoned in consequence of the withdrawal of railway 
1916 Jan. 1. 
