nae FIELD NOTES. 
REPTILIA. 
The Natterjack in Cumberland.—On August 16th, I 
found a fine specimen of this interesting species (Bufo calamita) 
at Allonby in this county. I am not sure whether it has 
hitherto been recorded for Cumberland ; it is rarely found on 
our western seaboard.--REv. W. W. Mason, Melmerby. 
ARACHNIDA. 
Foreign Spider at Huddersfield.—-A few days ago, a 
large spider was given me by Mr. Edgar France, Fruiterer, 
Primrose Hill, who had found it crawling about his shop. I 
submitted it to Mr. W. Falconer, who reports :—‘ The spider 
is an exotic, probably brought over in a consignment of bananas 
or oranges, etc. It is a native of the Mediterranean region and 
has also been found in the Canaries, etc. Its name is Zoropsis 
vufipes Lucas.—CHARLES MOSLEY, Lockwood. 
FLOWERING PLANTS. 
Plants of Commondale, N.E. Yorkshire.—During a 
recent visit to Commondale one of our party found Hypericum 
elodes high up in the sphagnum bogs on the bank of the little 
valley which yields the clay for the Commondale Pottery. It 
was associated with Anagallis tenella, Pinguicula vulgaris and 
Drosera rotundifolia. This Hypericum has only been found 
once before in the Esk district in bogs high up in Sleddale 
where it was discovered by the late Mr. William Mudd, Curator 
of the Botanic Garden at Cambridge. In the lane between 
the railway station and ‘ Oak Grove’ I gathered a Bramble 
which the Rev. W. M. Rogers regards as a hybrid between 
Rubus rusticanus and R. leucostachys. The other brambles are 
Rubus rhamnifolius and R. dasyphyllus Rogers.—J]. G. BAKER. 
COLEOPTERA. 
Telephorus darwinianus Sharp, in Cumberland.—!I 
have met with this species in some numbers on the salt marshes 
both north and south of the mouth of the river Eden. It 
occurs on the long grass near the tide-way, or along the edges 
of the creeks, from mid-May to July. In Mr. W. E. Sharp’s 
‘Coleoptera of Lancashire and Cheshire,’ p. 54, he reports it 
from Southport and Birkdale, adding, ‘ This, up to the present,. 
appears to be the only English record.’ This was in 1908. 
It was recorded from Cumberland so long ago as 1899 (Ent. 
Rec., 1899, p. 105). It is also included in the list of Cumberland 
Coleoptera in the ‘ Victoria’ History of the County, published 
in 1900. In the Ent. Mon. Mag., 1909, pp. 214-15, Mr. E. A. 
Waterhouse has a note of seven specimens taken on the R. 
Medway in 1857, about nine years before its publication as a 
distinct species ; also taken at Sheppey by Mr. J. J. Walker. 
My friend, Mr. F. H. Day, tells me he has also taken it in 
Cumberland, on the Skinburness, Newton, Cardurnock and 
Calvo Marshes.—JAsS MurRAY, Carlisle, July 25th, 1916. 

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