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difficulty in referring it to pusilla ; (ii) Haplozia pumila With., 

 with its paroicous inflorescence, of which I made quite sure, 

 its small size, and its long, narrow, fusiform, smooth perianth 

 separates it from H. rivularis Schiffner, which is a species 

 more like a paroicous form of H. riparia Tayl. I was glad to 

 spend again some time in the study of these two nearly-related 

 species. The third species in the packet (iii.) was Scapania com- 

 pacta Roth. 



Specimens of Cephaloziella Limprichtii Warnst., listed by 

 Mr. Jones, were sent to me by the collector, Mr. J. C. Wilson. 

 These specimens must have been much more robust and per- 

 fect than those seen by Mr. Jones, and as they were in a fertile 

 condition showing unmistakably paroicous inflorescences, 

 with entire bracts, I referred them without doubt to C. Lim- 

 prichtii Warnst. 



Mr. Jones records Ricciocarpus natans L., found by Dr. 

 Thomas, of Chester, in pond near Rossett, as new to Wales ; 

 in the Manchester Museum there are specimens of this species 

 collected by G. Lloj^d, June, 1842, in pond at Wrexham {ex 

 herb. W. Wilson). I suppose the discovery has never been 

 recorded. 



Fossomhronia pusilla L. and Eucalyx obovatits Nees, are 

 recorded in the ' Census Catalogue ' for VII., 50 (Denbigh), 

 although not included in Mr. Jones's list, and Haplozia pumila 

 With, is an addition. 



Coleoptera Notes from Huddersfield. — I took a 

 Necrophorus humator from under a stone beside a field pathway 

 at Thorn Bank, Birkby, on August 8th, 1917 ; and a few 

 days before found a Necrophorus rnspator floundering in a 

 vessel of water in an outbuilding in my garden. Coccinella 

 septempunctata has been remarkably common in the upper 

 part of the Wessenden Valley. When I visited that locality 

 on Sept. 3rd last, this beetle simply swarmed — so much so 

 that I had difficulty to walk without treading on some. I am 

 not aware whether its occurrence at Wessenden is itself a 

 record ; but certainly its abundant presence at the time 

 mentioned is noteworthj^ Blaps mucronata has fully established 

 its right to a place as one of the fairly common local beetles, 

 since the days when ' one in Swallow Street ' constituted the 

 only record.* During the past ten years or so I have very 

 frequently seen specimens at various places in the town, and 

 only a week ago picked one up in a back lane near my house. 

 Other friends have also told me that they too have seen it 

 many times. — Charles Mosley, Lockwood. 



* Huddersfield Naturalists' Society's Monthly Circular, May 1891. 

 1918 Feb. 1, 



