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list of Hemiptera, though surely there must be some printed 
records, although possibly these are not numerous. It will be 
for the new Yorkshire Hymenoptera, Diptera, aud Hemiptera 
Committee to remedy this defect. As might be expected, as a 
result of the exceptionally complete and excellent monographs 
already issued in the county, much of the material occurring in 
the contribution under ‘insects’ has already appeared elsewhere, 
though, of course, it is necessary in a work such as the Victoria 
History that it should occur again. 
The Arachnida (Spiders, Harvest-men, and False-Scorpions) 
are dealt with by the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, and include 
about 221 species for Yorkshire, out of about 540 known for 
Great Britain and Ireland. Mr. Pickard-Cambridge gives a 
useful bibliography. 
The Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing has written a contribution 
dealing with Crustaceans, and gives an exceedingly readable 
and useful account of them; in fact, he seems to have taken 
every possible care to gather together the various scattered 
records and to have presented the information in an attractive 
form. We cannot find that he has omitted anything of im- 
portance, and he has certainly examined the literature on the 
subject in a way which merits praise. 
For the Fishes, Reptiles and Batrachians, Birds, and Mam- 
mals, Mr. Oxley Grabham is responsible, and his contribution to 
these subjects occupies, for fishes 8 pages; reptiles and 
batrachians, 14; birds, 28; mammals, 6. With this limited 
allocation of space of course it is not possible for Mr. Grabham 
to have done every justice to these important departments. 
With regard to the fishes, the author has added his own notes, 
together with others supplied by Messrs. W. J. Clarke and T. 
Newbitt, to the list, ‘now, however, considerably out of date,’ in 
‘The Vertebrate Fauna of Yorkshire.’ This chapter, however, 
had to be written at very short notice. Of the birds, we observe 
Mr. Grabham includes 326 species in his list. Amongst these is 
a red-throated pipit which the late Mr. John Cordeaux reported 
as seen near Kilnsea, though it was not obtained. We also 
observe that reference is made to the fact that quite recently 
ten eggs anda stuffed specimen of the Great Auk located at Scar- 
borough have, with the exception of one egg, now been lost to 
the town, and that there are two stuffed specimens in the York 
Museum. These, of course, have no connection with the county, 
as Mr. Grabham recognises, as the information is given in 
square brackets. He refers also to the forthcoming ‘ Birds of 
1907 May 1. 
