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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS AT HAREWOOD PARK. 
Tue members of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union assembled 
in good numbers on May 13th at Harewood Park, by permission 
of Lord Harewood. Brakes conveyed the party from Arthing- 
ton Station, and in the Park the various sections found much 
of interest. Most of the work was carried on in the vicinity 
of the lake, upon which numerous waterfowl breed, and around 
which plants thrive in profusion. Here, amid the fine trees, 
and sheltered by the hills, the fauna and flora have every 
chance to flourish, and have the further advantage of being 
practically unmolested. Perhaps the most interesting feature 
on this mere was the colony of whooper swans. The Great 
Crested Grebe, Shoveller, Mallard, and Canada Goose were also 
present in numbers. There is likewise a heronry at Harewood, 
and though small, it was gratifying to find that the herons 
were increasing in numbers. Around the margin of the mere 
the gorgeous blooms of the marsh marigold, anemone, and 
bluebell delighted the hearts of the botanists. After tea, 
at the Wharfedale Hotel, a meeting was held, under the presi- 
dency of Mr. G. T. Porritt, F.L.S., of Huddersfield. Reports 
on the day’s investigations were given by Messrs. Cheetham, 
Winter, Croft, Sheppard, Hutton, Porritt, Fortune, Booth, 
and Gaunt. Twenty new members were elected, and the 
Brighouse Naturalists’ Society was affiliated with the Union. 
HYMENOPTERA.—Mr. J. F. Muswam _ records :—Vespa 
vulgaris, Psithyrus campestris Panzer, Andrena cineraria 
Linn. 
ARACHNIDA.—Mr. Falconer writes :—I had previously on 
two occasions spent a week (but a fortnight later in point of 
time) in the vicinity of Harewood, and a fair number of spiders 
is already on the list for the district. Some of them as York- 
shire species, are very rare; one, Tmeticus adeptus Camb. 
(Proc. Dorset Field Club,’ Vol. XXVII., 1906), the type 
specimen, being a unique female; Oxyptila flexa Camb., an 
adult female, Episinus truncatus Walck, an immature male, 
and Theridion pulchellum Walck, both sexes, being the only 
records for the county. With the intention of securing, if 
possible, more examples of these, Mr. Winter and I, starting 
early, visited the localities at East Keswick and Woodhall, 
where they had previously occurred. We met with little 
success, only one female of the last-named being obtained in a 
new locality, but the extra journey was not altogether fruitless. 
Theridion bimaculatum Linn, a local spider, was found amongst 
grass, at the former place, and a fine male, Baryphyma pratensis 
BI., elsewhere in the county known only, and that very rarely, 
in the East Riding, was taken from flood drift entangled 
amongst the trunk twigs of a tree on the left bank of the 
git June tr. 
