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 NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 



In the Entomologist's Record (Vols. XXIV., Nos. 7 and 8 : why not 

 No. 7 ?) Col. Manders writes on the ' Value of Protective Resemblance in 

 Moths,' Mr. H. J. Turner has a note on Nomenclature, Mr. H. C. Dollman 

 describes Longitavsus plantago-maritimns sp. nov., a Coleopteron new to 

 science, without a figure. 



Mr. R. Standen contributed a paper on the ' False Scorpions of Lan- 

 cashire ' to the Lancashire Naturalist, No. 49, and in the same publication 

 a writer, after referring to a certain journal as ' a very interesting publica- 

 tion which contains much of interest,' calmly proceeds to quote several 

 pages of records therefrom. 



In the Zoologist for July, Mr. Harvie-Brown gives some notes on the 

 habit of the Whimbrel, and the Editor, Mr. W. L. Distant, has a note on 

 large crabs, from which it seems that the largest crab he has been able 

 to trace is in the museum at Hull. It weighed twelve pounds, and was 

 caught at Brixham, Devon, in October last. 



In the Entomologist for July, it is recorded that one market garden 

 near Huddersfield alone supplied six thousand larvae and pupae of Abraxas 

 grossulariata to one collector, and could probably have supplied twenty 

 thousand. Large numbers of gooseberry bushes were absolutely stripped 

 of every ve-stige of leaf. Two pairs of cuckoos got even more larvae from 

 the same garden. 



In the Journal of Conchology for July, Mr. W. Denison Roebuck refers 

 to a specimen of Neritina fluviatilis from Sutton Drain, near Hull, which 

 has not hitherto been authenicated from the East Riding of Yorkshire! 

 This statement is difficult to understand, seeing that in Fetch's ' List of 

 Land and Fresh- water MoUusca of the East Riding,' published by the 

 Hull Club in 1904, many East Riding localities are given, on the authority 

 of Martin Lister, Hincks, North, Hey, Christy, Butterell, Foster and 

 Blackburn. Or is it that every record is supposed to be valueless unless it 

 appears in the Conchological Society's voucher collection ? 



In Nature (No. 2227) is an illustrated account of the laying of the 

 foundation-stone of the National Museum of Wales, a ceremony which was 

 recently performed by His Majesty the King. This was done during a 

 brief spell of glorious weather, in beautiful surroundings, and by the kind- 

 ness of the Director of the Museum, Dr. W. Evans Hoyle, a number of 

 curators from the provincial museums had an opportunity of being present. 

 When completed, the museum will be 440 feet long by 250 feet wide. In 

 addition to the museum proper, there will be pavilions for Welsh History 

 and Welsh Natural History, an aquarium, and an amphitheatre for the 

 performance of Welsh National folk-songs and dances. 



In the Geological Magazine for July, Mr. B. B. Woodward writes on 

 the Glycimeris shell with a human face, already referred to in these columns. 

 He is satisfied that the carving is not of Pliocene age, and suggests that 

 it found its way into the Crag by being placed with a palaeolithic burial. 

 It is further stated that the stains are unlike the Crag staining, and it 

 is suggested that it looked as if red ochre, as known to the ancient hunters, 

 had been rubbed into the cut.' Hitherto the great point has been that 

 the staining was not different from the ordinary crag stain. And surely 

 it is hardly correct to refer to ' the impossibility of reproducing with 

 modern tools and modern conception of the human face, even in caricature, 

 the quaint but characteristic scuplture on the shell in question.' If any- 

 one cares to look at Punch for July 17th, page 66, he will find the face in 

 the boat, at the bottom right-hand corner, with an expression almost 

 identical with the face on this alleged palaeolithic Glycimeris. At the 

 time the ' discovery ' was made, it was considered to be the result of a 

 ' joke,' probably played by a quarryman. At present, we see no reason 

 to alter this belief. 



1912 Aug. I. -"^ 



