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ever, even though it only took a bite or two out of them. It 
would often refuse obstinately to take back a piece it had 
dropped ; in fact, it was seldom that I could induce it to do so. 
! used to take this extravance as an indication that it had had 
sufficient, and when it began to drop portions of its food | 
stopped the supply. I found that an average of about five 
dozen mealworms each per day seemed to meet the require- 
ments of these bats fairly well; at any rate they had to subsist 
on that allowance, for mealworms cost money.* 
(Zo be continued). 
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ARACHNIDA. 
A Phalangid new to Yorkshire.—Ol/golophus alpinus 
Herbst., now recorded for our county for the first time, is an 
addition to the list of Yorkshire Harvest Spiders which appeared 
in the ‘ Naturalist,’ November, 1906. The total list is thus 
increased to sixteen species. I secured specimens in Butternab 
Wood, Huddersfield, in July and near the summit of Ingle- 
borough in September, 1907.—Ww. Fatconer, Slaithwaite, 
28th September, 1907. 
A Pseudo-scorpion new to Northumberland.—Pseudo- 
scorpions are apparently, with one exception, very scarce in the 
North of England, only eight of the twenty-three British species 
having occurred in the six northern counties (vzde ‘ Naturalist,’ 
August, 1903 aud June 1907). Only the commonest one, 
Obistum muscorum Leach., has up to the present been met 
with in Northumberland, but on August 16th, while sifting the 
accumulated refuse in an obscure and neglected corner of a barn 
at Manor Mill, Haltwhistle, on the South Tyne, I came across 
one example of the eyeless Chernes rufeolus Sim. This false- 
scorpion has only recently been added to the British list (‘Trans. 
of Dorset Field Club,’ 1905). It was first discovered in a 
London granary, but has since been taken in Kent, Essex, 
Wilts., Derby, Cumberland, and Cheshire.—Wwmn. FALCONER, 
Slaithwaite, 28th September, 1907. 
* This a certain gamekeeper discovered, to whom I was talking on the 
subject. He was enquiring after the welfare of a couple of Noctules he had 
given me some little time previously, and asking me upon what I fed them. 
I told him that the joint efforts of the bats accounted for some hundred and 
fifty mealworms per day. Upon this he enquired what I paid for my meal- 
worms, and after I had told him, relapsed into profound silence, broken by 
fitful mutterings, which warned me that he was engaged in the mental 
solution of some problem in advanced practical mathematics. Just when I 
was beginning to think that he had either forgotten the matter or become 
hopelessly muddled, he burst out triumphantly—‘ I'll tell you what, Mister, 
I’m feeding a couple of pigs for three ha’pence a week less than them there 
bats is costing you’! I could quite believe him, too. 
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Naturalist, 
