Yorkshire Natut'alists' Union : Annual Report, 1917. 43 



Khinocola ericae, Cant. Plentiful everywhere in Cleveland. 



The Entomologist for 1916 also contained papers on Cynipid 

 Galls occurring in Durham, Northumberland and North 

 Yorkshire by the same writer. 



Arachnida. — Mr. W. Falconer writes : — Three small con- 

 signments have been received from Dr. Corbett, Mr. W. P. 

 Winter and Rev. R. A. Taylor (Burnley) respectively. The 

 first, from Martin Beck Wood, on the county border line, v.c. 63, 

 contained amongst others Linyphia pusilla Sund. 1^, 3$s, 

 Theridion impressiim L. Koch ^ (second Yorkshire station) 

 and Cliihiona grisea L. Koch, $s, all new to the division, and 

 Tetragnatha extensa Linn., both sexes, recorded once before 

 for it ; the last, from Scarborough, included 8 or 9 examples of 

 the false-scorpion, Chernes nodosiis Schr., taken from flies' 

 legs. My own collecting furnishes the following records from 

 the Huddersfield drainage area : — New stations for Gongylidiel- 

 lum paganum Sim. and Maro minittus Camb. (the latter still 

 confined to the Slaithwaite district), Porrhomma thorellii Herm., 

 numerous ^s and ^s from the sewage works at Berry Brow, 

 Tetragnatha solandrii Scop. $, the only one so far seen in 

 the drainage area, and many mites, including some ten gall- 

 makers. 



BOTANICAL SECTION. 



Flow^erixg Plants. — Mr. C. A. Cheetham writes : — The 

 very severe weather during the first three months of the year 

 held up all vegetation ; on Moughton Scar, where Saxijraga 

 oppositifolia has been seen in flower by February ist, there was 

 deep snow up to the second week of April, and until this cleared 

 away, there w^as no growth. When open w^eather came, the 

 leeway was quickly made up, and by Whitsuntide all plants 

 seemed quite up to their usual dates for bloom. The effects 

 of the frosts were most noticeable on the gorse and garden 

 evergreens ; reports of the former having suffered severely 

 were to hand from all districts. 



There is a general agreement that the year is a good average 

 one for wild fruits, with the exception of the Ash, which is a 

 noticeable failure ; occasionally a tree is seen with ' keys,' 

 but this is often on poor grown or diseased plants, or single 

 branches of larger trees. Can it be that these flowered at a 

 different time to the general body and escaped the untoward 

 circumstances which spoilt the rest ? From Swaledale to 

 Airedale, and in the Huddersfield district, the Mountain Ash 

 carries berries to an abnormal extent and is a glorious sight. 

 Mr. J. F. Robinson finds that in the East Riding fruits are 

 on the whole below the normal average, citing Ash, Bramble, 

 Sloe, Guelder Rose and Woody Nightshade, as all poor. 



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