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from the East Riding, amongst them being two species new 

 to the count v, Prosopotheca incisa Camb. (a very rare British 

 spider), and Scotina gracilipes Bl. ; several new to v.c. 61, 

 including Hahnia helveola Sim., Oreonetides firmns Cambr., 

 Mcngca scopigera Grube, Cnephalocotes interjectus Cambr., 

 Cornicularia vigilax Bl. and Pachygnatha listeri Sund. ; and a 

 few others such as Lophomma subaequale Westr., Panamomops 

 bicuspis Cambr., Cercidia prominens Westr. (1st Yorkshire <$), 

 second records of rare species for the same division, while 

 Cornicularia kochii Cambr. turned up at a new station (Hornsea 

 Mere), and another pair of Erigone spinosa Cambr.* at Saltend 

 Common. In v.c. 63 Diplocephalus protuberans Cambr. $ was 

 taken in Drop Clough, the third Huddersfield locality (the 

 only other British station being Gibside, County Durham), 

 and Lophocarenum mengii Sim., in particular abundance, 

 both sexes, in the Chew Valley, Greenfield, where also two $ 

 Evansia merens Cambr., the last again in nests of Donisthorpea 

 nigra. In v.c. 64 Diplocephalus castaneipes, Sim., £ $ occurred 

 on the summit of Ingleborough, Troxochrus scabriculus Westr., 

 new to the v.c, in three localities about lngleton (the only 

 inland county records), and Tmeticus graminicola Sund., at 

 Linton Common, where it literally swarmed on bushes. 

 Lophocarenum nemor ale Bl. $, River Cover (W. E. L. Wattam) 

 is new to v.c. 65. 



The investigation of the mites continues and several new 

 county and some British records have been made, particulars 

 of which will be given later. Authorities to whom the mite 

 recorded as Smaridia papillose Herm., was submitted, disagreed 

 as to its identity, and eventually Dr. George described it as 

 a spec. nov. under the name Trombidium parvum (Nat., June, 

 pp. 189-190). There is, however, no doubt in the case of the 

 allied species, Smaridia impulliger Berk, taken by Mr. Stain- 

 forth at Brantingham Dale in April. 



BOTANICAL SECTION. 



Flowering Plants. — Mr. J. F. Robinson writes : — At the 

 various field meetings, a fair attendance and a steady interest 

 have been maintained — vide exhaustive reports in The Nat- 

 uralist of late months. New localities of certain uncommon 

 and interesting species have been discovered, as for example, 

 in the case of Car ex paradoxa, Willd. in two stations near 

 Driffield, Car ex Pseudo-cyperus, Linn, near Hull, and Epipactis 

 palustris, also near Driffield. The confirmation of a number 

 of stations of former well-known species supposed to be among 



* Vide The Naturalist, Jan. 1914, p. 32. 

 1917 Jan. 1. 



