26 Ficlil Xolcs. 



' As the results of education must be tardy, and the existini,-- 

 law is inadequate, leg'islation appears necessary. It is at 

 present necessary to prove damag-e; it is difficult to secure the 

 co-operation of landowners and the police; and the powers of 

 the Home Secretary and of the County Councils as to the 

 makinif of by-laws are not sufficiently clear. It is proposed to 

 introduce a Bill on the lines of the Wild Birds' Protection Acts, 

 applying,'- only to persons over fourteen years of ag-e as princi- 

 pals, and exempting occupiers of land and those authorised bv 

 them, but authorising the scheduling of species, districts, or 

 wholi' counties.' 



' BOTANY. 



Malaxis paludosa in the North Riding of Yorkshire. 



(See page 355 Dec. ' Naturalist,' 1905.) — Mr. Alexander will be 

 interested to know that I found this plant on the Yorkshire side 

 of the Tees, about 100 yards above the High Force, on 24th 

 August, 1895, and recorded it in the 'Naturalist' soon after 

 (Nov., 1895, p. 307.) In my case also, the few plants were 

 g-rowing on the top of Sphagnum close by the river, and kept 

 wet by a slight trickle of water. — Wm. Ingham, York, iith 

 Dec. 1905. 



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ENTOMOLOGY. 



Aplecta nebulosa var. robsoni at Wakefield. I took a 

 specimen of Aplecta nebulosa var. robsoni at Haw Park, Wake- 

 field, on 1 8th July last. — Arthur Whitaker, W^orsborough 

 Bridge, Barnsley, nth November, 1905. 



This is the first definite record we have of the occurrence of 

 A. nebulosa var. robsoni in Yorkshire, though very dark speci- 

 mens are so numerous in the south-west, it was pretty certain 

 that the extreme black form [robso)ii) must occur. — G. T. P. 



Euchromia mygindana near Sheffield ; an addition to 

 the Yorkshire list. — Amongst some micro lepidoplera taken 

 during the last few years, and identified for me by Mr. G. T. 

 Porritt, arc two specimens of Euchrotnia uiyi^intlaiia. Tiiis 

 species, Mr. Porritt informs me, has not previously been 

 recorded as occuring in \'orkshire. They were taken in a rough 

 moorland wood in the Sheffield miglibourhood. — L. S. Bkadv. 

 Sheflield, 25th Nov., 1905. 



Naturalist, 



