214 Field Notes. 



ARACHNIDA. 

 A Malformed Eyeless Spider. — On September 4th of 

 last year I collected a curious spider in the beech woods east of 

 South Cave. The caput was malformed, and no trace of eyes 

 could be observed. As it was not quite adult the species 

 could not be determined. Such examples with one or more, 

 or as in this case with all eyes obsolete or imperfect, are very 

 occasionally met with. The deformity would seem to be due 

 to some inherent defect in the embryo, or to some accident 

 either at birth, or in moulting. It is remarkable that a creature 

 so greatly handicapped should be able to preserve its life amidst 

 so many enemies, and obtain the necessary food supply. — 

 Ernest A. Parsons, Hull. 



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FLOWERING PLANTS. 

 Hymenophyllum peltatum Desv. { = ti.Wilsoni, Hooker) 

 at Ingleton. — I found the Defiexed Filmy Fern near the Greta 

 Gorge, Ingleton, on the 28i;h March last. I forwarded one of 

 the specimens to ^Ir. F. Arnold Lees, who kindly replied as 

 follows : — ' Thanks for your welcome new (particular) locality 

 for the Defiexed Filmy Fern [Hymenophyllum peltatum Desv. = 

 H. Wilsoni Hooker). In the course of years it may have been a 

 ' wash-down ' from the long-known head-quarter situate on 

 Foalfoot Rocks, west fall of Ingleboro' ; but nobody before 

 3-ourself seems to have detected it in the Greta Gorge. It 

 turned up, however, to John Handley, in Dentdale, two miles 

 from Dent village, towards Ingleton, but the water of the 

 cascade there flows west into the Lune. Yours is in the Lune 

 Basin, too, but the southern sub-division.' — W. E. L. W'attam, 

 Newsome. 



In the March ' Geological Magazine,' Dr. C. W. Andrews has an in- 

 teresting paper on ' A Mounted Skeleton of a small Pliosaur [Peloneitstes] 

 from the Oxford Clay at Peterborough,' illustrated by an excelleiit plate. 

 There is also an article by Dr. F. A. Bather on ' Some Fossil Annelid 

 Burrows.' 



From our contributor Mr. T. Fetch, we have received a further batch of 

 publications which bear evidence of the excellent work he is doing in 

 Ceylon. There is ' A List of the Mycetozoa of Ceylon ' ; ' Re^•ision5 of 

 Ceylon Fungi,' Part II. ; and ' New Ceylon Fungi.' These are reprinted 

 from the " Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya.' There 

 are also three 'circulars', one, which consists of over a hundred pages, 

 deals with ' The Stem-bleeding Disease of the Coconut,' which is illustrated 

 by a number of plates ; the others are entitled ' A Bark L isease of Hevea, 

 Tea, etc,' and ' Die-Bark of Hevea Brasilensis.' 



