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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 
Colias edusa was taken at Bridlington on September 7th (The En- 
tomologist, for October). 
Vol. IV., Part 4, of the Hull Literary Club Magazine contains a paper 
on the ‘Lost Towns of the Yorkshire Coast’ by Mr. T. Sheppard. 
A swallow ringed at Skelmorlie, Ayrshire, on July 27th, I912, was 
caught in the Orange Free State on March 16th, 1913 (British Birds, Nov.). 
Mr. R. S. Bagnall records Euconnus nanus and Euthia schaumi, two 
scydmaenids new to the fauna of Northumberland and Durham, in The 
Entomologist’s Record for October. 
We have received part I. of Childven’s Museum News, a journal 
specially printed for the young visitors to the Children’s Museum, Bedford 
Park, Brooklyn, N.Y. 
The New Phytologist for October contains a paper dealing with in- 
vestigations on Polyporus squamosus, the Saddle-back fungus, by S. R. 
Price, and ‘ The Determining Factors in Petiolar Structure,’ by E. J. 
Salisbury. 
Volume 2, Part 2, of The Journal of Roman Studies contains a paper by 
Professor Haverfield on Roman Coast Defences of Britain, especially in 
Yorkshire, and another on ‘ The Roman Fort at Huntcliff, near Saltburn,’ 
by Messrs. W. Hornsby, R. Stanton, and others. 
In the Geological Magazine for October, Dr. A. Smith Woodward 
describes a tooth lately found at Piltdown, Sussex, apparently belonging to 
the primitive skull which he has previously described. The tooth is de- 
scribed as markedly ape-like. In the same journal Mr. R. M. Brydone 
describes some new chalk Polyzoa, under the names Cribrilina suffulta, 
and C. cacus. 
In the Selborne Magazine for November is an excellent article by Mr. 
F. Heatherley, on ‘ Hiding Contrivances,’ in which he shows how success 
in bird photography is attained. We agree with him that ‘it is a pity 
some photographers, in order apparently to enhance the value of their 
achievements, have, in the past, laid so much stress on the discomforts 
they have undergone.’ 
In The Entomologist’s Recovd for October Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker 
gives some ‘ Observations on Dr. Verity’s. Review of the Linnean Collection 
and his suggested Nomenclatorial Alterations’ in which he states he 
has been endeavouring to reconcile himself to Dr. Verity’s drastic changes, 
but the more he reviews the situation the more he feels the impossibility 
of accepting his alterations. 
In The Entomologist for November are records of Lycena astrarche, 
C. edusa, and A. atropos from Derbyshire; Emmelesia teniata from 
Westmorland, and Mutilla europea from Robin Hood’s Bay. The last, 
by Professor R. Meldola, refers to the illustration of this insect (which he 
claims as the third record for Yorkshire) in Mr. Elgee’s ‘ Moorlands of 
North-East Yorkshire,’ about to be published at Middlesborough! The 
third Yorkshire record of this species, however, was published in The 
Naturalist for 1908, p. 193. 
We have received a remarkable paper on ‘ The Wonderful Sights of an 
English Clover Field,’ by Mr. A. H. Swinton, reprinted from the Abzug 
aus Societas entomologica, though it seems odd that it has been necessary 
to go abroad to get it published. He has a far-fetched sun-spot theory 
to account for the periodic appearances of Colias edusa in Britain, whereas, 
of course, it more depends upon the direction of the wind at the time of 
its emergence on the continent. The immigrants deposit eggs in our 
southern counties, which hatch, but the insects succumb to our climate. 
The suggestion the author makes that the eggs reach England with clover 
seed is impossible, nor can the species hibernate in England. 
1913 Dec. I. 
