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Orthezia Sp.—I think I have a new species of this genus 
differing in size and in the dorsal plates from O. cataphracta. 
This I got amongst Sphagnum on Great Ayton Moor. 
P.S.—In spite of what is said above about the non- 
occurrence of oakfeeding Coccids in our area, I tock sucha 
species on Noy. gth. This was Asfidiotus zonatus (Frauenfeld). 
Over-wintering females occurred sparingly on scrubby oaks 
near Nunthorpe Station. 
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The Ivish Naturalist for January contains a paper on ‘ The Geography 
of Ireland as a field for Irish naturalists,’ by Prof. G. A. J. Cole. 
Mr. W. G. Travis contributes ‘ Bryological Notes in the Ingleton 
District,’ to the Lancashire and Cheshive Naturalist for December. 
Mr. W. H. S. Cheavin favours us with a reprint of an illustrated paper 
on the Common Gnat, which appeared in Knowledge. 
In a recent issue of The Journal of Economic Biology (pp. 105-125), 
Mr. J. W. H. Johnson writes ‘ A Contribution to the Biology of Sewage 
Disposal.’ 
The Ivish Naturalist Vol. 23, No. 10 contains ‘ A Note on the Anatomy 
of the Irish Vitrina described as v. pyvenaica or v. hibernica,’ by A. E. 
Boycott. . 
In The Journal of Conchology for January, Helicella virgata m. 
stntstvovsum is recorded near Scarborough, this being the fourth record 
for the neighbourhood. 
“Notes on High Mortality among Young Common Terns in certain 
seasons,’ by A. R. Galloway and A. L. Thomson, appear in The Scottish 
Naturalist for December. 
In the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, volume 49, Mr. J. W. 
Jackson describes some Dental Mutilations found in a cave known as 
“ Dog Holes,’ on Warton Crag, Lancs. 
Part 90 of the Yorkshive Archaeological Journal is almost entirely 
devoted to ‘ Anglian and Anglo-Danish Sculpture in the West Riding ’ 
by Professor Collingwood, and is very well illustrated. 
Mr. G. T. Porritt records the ‘Abundance of Pyvamets cardui at 
Bridlington,’ in The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine No. 606. Mr. 
E. G. Bradford records the abundance of the same species near Sheffield, in 
No. 607 of that journal. 
In No. 880 of The Zoologist Mr. A. H. Patterson gives some ‘ Miscell- 
aneous Notes from Great Yarmouth’; in No, 881, Mr. O. V. Aplin gives 
* Notes on Oxtordshire Ornithology, 1913’; in No. 882, ‘ Extracts from a 
Shooter’s Note-Book in 1866, including the Great Frost.’ 
We learn from The Lancashive and Cheshive Naturalist for December 
that ‘ After having once been almost delegated to the formation of a 
local art gallery and museum, to end unlimited suggestions and con- 
troversyv, and to relieve themselves of an uneviable position, the trustees 
of the Lightbown bequest at Darwen decided that almshouses be erected 
with the money.’ 
Mr. Frank Cuttriss contributes to Knowledge the result of his obser- 
vations on the spinning of a spider’s web. The spider was watched from 
seven o’clock in the evening, but she did not begin work until two hours 
iater, working from then continuously until 1.25 a.m., when her snare was 
completed. The network and the radial lines were finished by midnight, and 
the spiral part of the web was therefore made in a little under an hour and 
a half. Mr. Cuttriss gives careful diagrams illustrating the construction 
and progress of the web. 
1915 Feb. 1. 
