News from the Magazines. 357 
~ Limnea auricularia. L..-—Most remarkably wide-mouthed, 
and almost square-shouldered specimens, were taken in the lake 
at Castle Howard ‘about tén years ago. The writer has seen 
nothing approacning them from, elsewhere, but recent visits 
have failed to produce further specimens or, indeed, the species 
in any form. 
*{t Limnea stagnalis L.~—It is quite unusual to find this species 
in a river- properly so-called, but Mr. Laverack showed some 
at the recént Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union Meeting, which had 
been taken in the River Derwent, and the present writer has 
also. taken it there; only on one other occasion has he noted 
a river habitat, and that was at Stafford. 
*+ Planorbis vortex L., lives in the lake at Castle Howard, 
and in the Derwent at Kirkham Abbey. 
t .Aplecta hvpnorum, ina ditch at Marrishes, together with 
t Limnea palustris Miller, and 
+  Valvata piscinalis Miller, may be taken any day. 
*+ Bithynia tentaculata L., is in the river at Kirkham Abbey. 
Here also occurs eas 
*t Unio tumidus; and the finest set of Pisidium amnicum 
that. have had the misfortune to fall into the writer’s dredges 
name from this spot. — 
*+ One has to go half way to Malton to get Meviae fluviatilis 
from the River Derwent ; doubtless it is to be found futther 
down the stream. a 
* The writer would dike to know more about Anodonta 
tumidus’’—reported by Mr. Waltam from Scampston Lake.’ 
Here:may be found Unio pictorum L., cleaner and more 
delicately formed and coloured specimens than are to be met 
with in other localities. 
Other common species noticed in the official report of the 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union Meeting,t and found by the 
writer, need not be repeated here. 
GEE 
7 O°: 
' British Birds for September contains obituary notices of A. G. Leigh ; 
Iiveut. Col. B. R. Horsburgh ; Capt. J. M. Charlton, and Lieut. Hi. V. 
‘Charlton. 
The Scottish Naturalist for September contains a memoir and portrait 
of the late J. A. Harvie-Brown. Mr. W. Denison Roebuck writes on 
“Main Argyll and its Inland Molluscan Fauna.’ 
Mr. J. W. H. Harrison has an illustrated note on Psocoptera collected 
by Mr. R. S. Bagnall at Grange-over-Sands, in the Lancashive and Cheshire 
Naturalist for August; | Wor (G. Ay Dunlop gives a list of Hemiptera (of 
Lancashire and Cheshire) collected in 1915; Mr. T. A. Coward continues 
his notes on the Vertebrate Fauna of the area, and Mr. R. Standen records 
Chelifey (Chernes) powelli Kew, and- C. (Wuvthius) subyubey Simon, in 
Lancashire and Cheshire, * 

HASeSrmehyie Natuvattst, 1916, pp. 265-2006. 
1916 Noy. 1. 
