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ticuhirly the former, mit^ht have been there for business purposes, 

 just as the Bats circle round and round the lamps and hawk 

 from one to another, pickini^ oft" the moths which often swarm, 

 and as the cats at the foot wait for those which fall stunned by 

 contact with the lamp, so the beetles may have discovered what 

 an ample supply of food assembles there. Almost any nii^-ht in 

 the season Aphodius riijipes and Geotriipes spiniger will occur. 

 The Silphidse also is well represented. In this neit^hbourhood 

 Xecroplwrus humator is of common occurrence, while riispalor, 

 vespil/o, and inortnortivi are by no means infrequent. But the 

 best species I have hitherto met with is Necrodes littoralis, 

 which I have taken only in this way. It is an uncommon 

 species, but easily taken, either when at rest on the standard, or 

 on the gTOund, stunned by impact with the lamp. 



FURTHER NOTES ON YORKSHIRE PLANTS IN THE 

 BICHENO HERBARIUM AT SWANSEA. 



Rkv. H. J. RIDDELSDELL, M.A. 



Aberdare, South Males. 



Dr. F. Arnold Lees writes some very interesting' details con- 

 cerning- the records from plants now at Swansea, published in 

 ' The Naturalist ' for November 1902. I will quote some of his 

 remarks : — ' The old school men exchan<jed and corresponded 

 much as the hortosiccans of to-day do, and the source of many 

 of the North-west and Mid-west Yorkshire specimens is easily 

 obtainable. For example, all your 1S39, 1840, and 1841 — or 

 nearly all — were g^athered by the late Dr. J. Deakin Heaton, of 

 Leeds. I hold corresponding- specimens from his herbarium. 

 Likewise the peripatetic botanist Henry Ibbotson . . . used 

 to wander up and down the dales and further afield, Teesdale, 

 Clova, etc., collecting- for g^entlemen willing- to pay a trifle for 

 plants from places they had not time to visit. And he used to 

 send Mr. Motley plants — usually with loose labels of bluish 

 paper, written in a neat sloping- bank clerk hand . . . Like- 

 wise John Bohler, of Sheffield in Derbyshire, circa 1821-30. 

 And Brunton for Woods, 1774-1800. 



As to Vacciniian uliginosnni Bicheno's is ?/<?/ the first 'record' 

 for Yorkshire. The name appears in Dr. J. Fotherg-ill's list oi 

 Wensleydale plants (he lived at Carr End, Semerwater, about 



1903 May I. 



