240 Field Notes. 



abundantly represented by V. recta and V. truncata, whilst 

 W strigillata, V. ganltina and V. priceana also occur, the latter 

 being restricted to the Upper Gault at Folkestone. Of Cris- 

 tellaria, 24 species were found. The ensiform or elongate 

 varieties are small and rare, but large forms of the rotulata type 

 are commonly found, some individuals of C. rotulata, C. gaultiua 

 and C. diademata being among the largest of the Ford Foramin- 

 ifera. C. com planata is restricted to the uppermost Gault at 

 Folkestone, but it has been found by the authors in Upper 

 Jurassic deposits in Buckinghamshire. The Polymorpliinae are 

 comparatively rare, but include some of the interesting fistulose 

 forms. The Ramulinae occur as fragments — the usual state 

 of these long branching forms. 



Globigerixid^. — Globigerina cretacea occurs in great 

 abundance ; it is the commonest species found at Ford, with 

 the possible exception of Anomalina ammonoides. 



RoTALiiD.E. — The genus Discorbina it represented by one 

 species, D. nigosa. Anomalina ammonoides is very abundant, 

 this species, together with Globerigina cretacea, making up 

 more than half the Foraminifera in the Gault of Ford. The 

 genus Anomalina is difficult to separate into species, but A. 

 ammonoides appears to be the only representative at Ford. 

 Of the Pulvinulinae, P. spinulifera, a variable species, is 

 common, two other species being occasionally found. 



Mutilla europaea near Whitby. — I took a specimen of 

 the parasite Ant, MiitiUa eiiropcva (Linn)., on the Whitby 

 Moors, near Lilla Cross, on June 17th. — E. Arnold W^allis, 

 Scalby. 



Pine Marten in Shropshire. — In The Naturalist, 1918, 

 page 231, I noted that after a period of forty-five years — 

 from 1862 to 1907 — during which the Pine Marten had been 

 regarded as extinct in Shropshire, two examples, both females, 

 were trapped in x\pril-May, 1907, and a third, also a female, 

 in May, 1918. I now have to add a fourth specimen, trapped 

 at Lutwyche, near Much Wenlock, 30th May, 1921. This is 

 a male, and, judging by the teeth, not much more than a j-ear 

 old. I am pleased to say that the owner, Major G. R. 

 Benson, has presented it to Shrewsbury Museum on my 

 representing to him that it was the only species lacking to 

 render the collection of Shropshire Mammals complete. The 

 occurrences noted above not only confirm my view that the 

 Marten has an innate love of roving — the Shropshire examples 

 having probably come from Merioneth — but indicate that if 

 given protection by large land-owners in wooded country, this 

 graceful animal would once again resume its place in the 

 local fauna. — H. E. Forrest, Shrewsbury. 



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