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7-47 they reached the burrow again, and two new ants came 
out and seized the earwig’s right hind leg and left foreleg. The 
earwig made a last effort to use his forceps, but was too weak 
to get them beyond his elytra. At 7-53 he was again dragged 
down the burrow ; and, as he had not reappeared by 8-20, I 
suppose he was at last overpowered. 
The extent to which he used his forceps I thought was in- 
teresting. They were, however, clumsy weapons, and useless, 
except when the actual points closed on the ants. 
Tam indebted to Mr: H. St) J.’ K. Donisthorpe for the 
identification of the ant. 
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Late Nesting of Woodcock.—On July 24th, I came across 
the nest of a Woodcock in a wocd in this parish, near the foot 
of a fir. The bird flew off at my approach, and the nest 
contained four eggs. As the Woodcock is an early breeder, 
usually nesting in March or April, the above occurrence appears 
to me most extraordinary. It raises the question as to whether 
or this species may be double-brooded.*—W. Wricut Mason, 
Melmerby Rectory, Cumberland. 
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Cumberland Hemiptera.—To the list of Cumberland 
Hemiptera (pp. 252-7 antea) I can add the following :—Mala- 
cocoris chlorizans Fall., very local on Hazel in a lane near 
Wreay, on August 26th last. At the same time and place, I 
beat a few specimens of Campyloneura virgula H.S., from Oak. 
I have since found this latter species at Durdar. A speci- 
men of Phylus palliceps Fieb. occurred at Orton from Oak, P. 
melanocephalus Linn. being common at the same time.—Jas. 
Murray, Balfour Road, Carlisle. 
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Cumberland Hepatics.—Many years ago the late Rev. R. 
Wood recorded many species of Mosses from the Caldbeck 
Fells district of Cumberland, but no Hepatics, so that the 
following species, which | gathered there in 1913, may be worth 
noting :—Alicularia scalaris (Schrad.) Corda, among mosses on 
High Pike. Lophozia ventricosa (Dicks.) Dum., High Pike, on 
the ground at 2,000 ft. Plagiochila asplenioides (Linn.) Dum., 
on rocks in shade in the ‘Howk.’ Scapania dentata Dum., 
High Pike, on wet rocks at 1,500 ft. S. undulata (Linn), 
Dum., also on High Pike in wet places. Madotheca platyphylla 
(Linn.) Dum., abundant on shady bank in the ‘ Howk,’ at 
Caldbeck.—JAs. Murray, Balfour Road, Carlisle. 


* The occurrence is not extraordinary, as many of the species are 
double brooded. In the North of England, March and April, and June 
and July are the months jn which the nests can be looked for.—R.F. 
1916 Novy. 1. 


