200 Field Notes. 



appearance that they are apt to be taken for two difFerent 

 species. Of course, the presence of the Aculeus hi the female, 

 and its absence in the male, together with the peculiar forceps, 

 are diagfnostic of the sexes. — C. F. George. 



LEPIDOPJERA. 

 Gelecthia scalella Scop, near Wakefield : an addition to 

 the List of Yorkshire Lepidoptera. — Recently the Rev. T. B. 

 Eddrup sent me a box of Micro-Lepidoptera for determination, 

 amongf which was a good specimen of Gelecthia scalella Scop.- — 

 a Fleella Tab — a species hitherto unrecorded for Yorkshire. Mr. 

 Eddrup tells me he took several specimens, and that there were 

 others at rest on oak trunks in Coxley Wood, Horbury, on June 

 3rd and jth last. — ^Geo. T. Porritt, Huddersfield, May 2nd, 

 1906. 



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SPIDERS. 



New Yorkshire Spider Records. — The following- appear 

 to be new records of Spiders for Yorkshire : — 



Dysdeni cracota CL.. Koch. ^ Scarborough. 



Tetragnatha extensa Linn. ^ Harwood Dale. 



Ca'lotes terreslris Wid. ^ Cayton Bay. 



The last named is the third record of this rare species for 

 Britain. — R. Gilchrist, Scarborough. 



NORTHERN NEWS. 



In the April ' Irish NaUiraiist,' Mr. R. Lloyd Pracgor has a paptr on 

 ' A Simple Method of representing^ Geographical Distribution.' 



Mr. G. T. Porritt adds Lathkildale, Derbyshire, and Alford, Lincoln- 

 shire, to the localities for Ha/csits irt///a///><'>in/s {Eiifoniologisf's Monthly 

 Magazine, .\pril). 



At the annual nu'ctinj;' of the Leeds Philosi)|)hiral and I.ilerar}- Society, 

 held recently, Prof. P. V. Kendall, F.G.S., was elected one of the lion, 

 secretaries of the society. 



Mr. K. A. Newbery shews {En/o/no/og/'s/'s Monthly Magasine, .Vprii) 

 that Thyumis curia, recorded for the Isle of Man, is certain!}' not curia, and 

 has, therefore, no jjlace in the Hrilish list. 



Mr. I). Thoday has a note 'On a sug-yfeslion of Ileterospory in Sphcno- 

 phyllum dawsoni,' in the New Phylologist for .April 30. His remarks are 

 based on a section from .Shore, Littleboroujjfh, Lanccishire. 



' Manurinjc,' by ICiIward Owen Greening^, F'.R.H.S., &c. London: 

 Aj;ri(Miltur;il and Horticultural Association. Price one penny. This 

 practical handbook clearly ex])lains the piin(i])les and practice of manur- 

 injc, and is very Cully illustrated. 



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