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Northern News. 



Cyclosa conica Pallas, i adult (^ from second wood. Only 

 two previous Yorkshire records ; Bradford and East Riding. 



Cercidia prominens Westr. i $ from bracken debris near 

 second wood. Only two other northern records, one being 

 for Adel Moor, near Leeds. It is not uncommon, however, in 

 the south of England. 



Epeira sturmii Hahn. Adult pair, first wood ; adult $, 

 second wood, with many immature examples from coniferous 

 trees. 



Where no name is attached, the spider was of my own 

 collecting. The others new to the common are : — 



Linn. 



?• 



Segestria senoculata 

 W.P.W. 



Clubiona holosericea Degeer. i Q. 



Agroeca proxinia Camb. 2 imma- 

 ture $s, T.S. 



Hahnia montana Bl. Omnes. 



Theridion denticulatum Walck. i ^, 

 3 $s, W.P.W. 



Linyphia peltata Wid. Omnes. 



Oreonetides abnormis Bl. i $, T.S. 



Agyneta decora Camb. i ^. 



/Edothorax fuscus Bl. 1$, W.P.W. 



Walckenaera acuminata Bl. Omnes. 



Ceratinella hvevis Wid. i 5, W.P.W. 



Pachygnatha degeerii Sund. Omnes. 



Epeira cucurbitina Clerck. Imma- 

 ture example, T.S. 



Ox-yptila trux Bl. 2 $s, W.P.W., 

 W.F. 



Meta merianae Scop. 2 $s. 

 W.P.W., W'.F. 



Tvochosa terricola Thor. Omnes. 



Of the more uncommon spiders which have been pre- 

 viously reported, only Clubiona diversa Camb., Theridion hima- 

 culatum Linn., Linyphia pusilla Sund., Leptyphantes obscurus 

 Bl., Hillhousia miser Camb., Gongylidiellum vivum Camb., 

 Cnephalocotes obscnris Bl., Enidia cormita BL, and Pepono- 

 cranium ludicrum Camb., (the last two rather freely), again 

 occurred. 



For such a promising locality (one of the best in Yorkshire), 

 the total number of arachnids, 130, is by no means a large one, 

 and indicates not so much what has been done, as what remains 

 to be done, so that regular and systematic collecting cannot 

 fail rapidly to swell the list.— W.E.L.W. 



Prof. P. F. Kendall has been elected President of the Leeds Philoso- 

 phical and Literary Society. 



We learn from the ' latest news items ' in the Standard that ' on the 

 Blackwater Broads in Essex, the Flycatcher bird, a rare visitor to these 

 shores, has been shot.' 



According to the report of the Borough Librarian and Secretary to 

 the Museum Committee of the Borough of Beverley, just to hand, the 

 Public Library Committee at Beverley includes an assistant, an attendant, 

 and Mr. and Mrs. Barrow, cleaners. 



While stripping the dense growth of ivy from the walls ot an outhouse 

 which was not more than twenty feet by ten feet, at Selby recently, a 

 man is reported to have obtained 210 sparrows' eggs, for whichi he was paid 

 a half-penny each from the local farmer's club. 



Naturalist, 



