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museum at Hull. Sir Henry Howorth, who presided, stated 
that he knew the lecturer very well, and was bound to say 
that if ever any valuable antiquities or other objects were 
missing from any of the museums or private collections in the 
county, the first place they looked to in the hope of finding 
them was the museum at Hull! 
FOSSILS. 
Fossil Fish Remains, etc. from Chesterfield.— During 
the past summer I examined the shale thrown out by a small 
colliery on the western boundary of Chesterfield, called the 
‘ Ashgate Colliery.’ Carbonicola robusta was found in the black 
shale; but where this occurs I did not find any vertebrate 
remains. Anthracomya sp. occurs in a black shale, and I 
noticed that Megalichthys teeth were often in the shale in 
association. 
The following fish remains which I collected have been kindly 
named by Dr. A. Smith Woodward :—Rhadinichthys monensts ; 
Acanthodes sp. (spines) ; Coelacanthas elegans (scales) ; Pleuro- 
plax vankiner (teeth); Helodus sp. (teeth); Dzplodus sp. 
(teeth) ; Rhizodopsis sauroides (teeth and jaw) ; Megalichthys 
hibbert: (teeth and scales) ; Platysomus sp. (clavicle) ; and Stem- 
matodus sp. (teeth, etc.).—H. C. DRAKE, Scarborough. 
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LEPIDOPTERA. 
Entomological Notes.—This fine summer must have done 
something to repair the havoc amongst European lepidoptera 
caused by the wet and cold of recent seasons. Here, as gener- 
ally, the ‘Whites’ have been only too abundant. I saw a 
newly-hatched male P. rape on October 20th, which date was 
unusually mild. 
During the later half of September, P. phle@as was extremely 
plentiful on Lavender; and V. urtice very abundant on the 
herbaceous’ borders. Atalanta seemed scarce, and cardiui 
altogether absent, so far as my observation went. 
What appeared to be a solitary specimen of V. 720, was seen 
two days in succession, on the second day being partly disabled 
with a damaged wing, probably due to some bird’s attack. 
The Butterflies, no doubt, have hard work to escape from 
our numerous birds. Two springs ago (March), I heard of a 
Tortoise Shell Butterfly which was disturbed as it sat sunning 
itself on a garden path. As it flew, a sparrow came over my 
informant’s head, and dashed the insect to the ground. It rose 
half crippled, and a starling swept down and carried it off. 
A battered male, S. convolvuli, was taken from the back 
of a wooden shed in September, and released —W. H. St. 
QUINTIN, Scampston, Yorks 
Naturalist, 
