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FIELD NOTES. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
Yorkshire Micro-Lepidoptera.—In a paper on Lepido- 
ptera taken by himself im the Middlesbrough district during 
1912, published in the Entomologist’s Record for April last, Mr: 
T. A. Lofthouse records four micros as new to the Yorkshire 
list. These are Grapholitha cinerana, Pe@disea rufimitrana, 
Tinea weaverella, and Argyresthia atmoriella. A fifth species, 
Retinia turicnana, which Mr. Lofthouse records as new, had 
already been taken by the Rev. C. D. Ash on Skipwith Common, 
near Selby, and is included in the Supplement to the List of 
Yorkshire Lepidoptera.—Gero. T. Porritt, Huddersfield. 
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FUNGI. 
Fungi near Scarborough.—A very fine specimen of a rare 
spring fungus, Mitrophora gigas Batsch, was found on the 15th 
May by Miss E. M. Le Tall, near the Racecourse, Scarborough. 
This species belongs to the Morel family, and has only once 
previously been recorded in | Yorkshire, from Masham in Vice- 
County, N.W. 
In February last I found in Raincliffe Woods, Scarborough, 
some of the dry leaves of Rhododendron ponticum L. covered 
with a small fungus, Lophodermium rhododendni Ces., one of 
the Hysteriaceee or Gaping Fungi. The rhododendra affected, 
which are in a damp, unfavourable situation in the wood, show 
at first reddish spots on the living leaves, and afterwards the: 
mature black elliptical ascophores are produced on the fallen 
leaves. This species, which is new to Yorkshire, has only one 
previous record for Britain, and that from the county of Surrey. 
It is not yet described in the British floras, and the writer is 
indebted to Mr. Chas. Crossland for specific determination. A 
full description will be included in the next list of new York- 
shire species.—T. B. RoE, Scarborough. 
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CRUSTACEA. 
Euthemisto compressa.— Millions of these arctic crusta- 
ceans were washed up on the shore yesterday and to- 
day. In some places they were in drifts like snow, three or 
four inches deep and extending for distances of a hundred to 
two hundred yards, visible at a distance of a quarter of a 
mile. The sands, from high- to low-water mark were strewn, 
and the rock pools were literally alive with them swimming— 
generally: on their sides. I have frequently observed great 
quantities of similar creatures and of various species, but never 
before have I seen such immense numbers, and the appearance 
of the beach might be compared to that on a winter’s day after 
a fall of snow. —TuHos. H. NELson, Redcar, ee 4th, 1913. 
Naturalist, 
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