390 Northern I^cim. 



\OIigolQphus spinosus Bosc* 



C. Scalby Mill Valley, one example. 

 The rarest species in the present list. In ' British Phalan- 

 gidea,' p. 40, it is stated that this phalang-iid 'appears to be 

 restricted to chalk or limestone districts,' but the Scalby Beck, 

 in the valley of which the solitary specimen here recorded was 

 taken, runs over Oolitic sandstones.] 



Ncmasto)}ia lugubre O. F. Muller. 



A. Bottoms Wood, Slaithwaite : Drop Clough : Wessen- 



den Valley : Butternab Wood : Meltham. 



B. Roundhay Park : Stubbing- Moor : Adel : Knares- 



borough : Malham. 



C. Scarborough Mere: Raincliff: Cloughton : Hayburn 



Wyke. 

 Common, sluggish in its movements, in various habitats on 

 the ground, and obtainable throughout the year. It is easily 

 distinguished from all the other harvestmen by its black colour, 

 and the two large, distinct, whitish or yellowish spots on the 

 posterior portion of the cephalothorax. In the male, an obtuse 

 extension of the first joint of the falx projects over the second 

 joint. 



Nemastoma chrysomelas Herm. 



A. Bottoms Wood, Slaithwaite, two examples : Armitage 

 Bridge, one example. 

 Noted in ' British Phalangidea,' p. 44, as having been found 

 near Bradford by Mr. Meade. In the male the first two joints 

 of the falx are prolonged at the ends contiguous to each other. 



We ret^ret to record the death of Mr. Georji-e Irving, of Corbridg-e-oii- 

 Tyne. Mr. Irving' was an enthusiastic antiquary, and took a keen interest 

 in arboriculture. 



Mr. G. T. Porritt favours us with a copy of his paper on • Melanism in 

 Yoiksliirc Lepidoptera,' printed in extenso by the British .Association. -A 

 notice of the pa])er appeared in our September issue. 



The Annual Meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union will bo held at 

 York on Saturday. December 15th. Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, F.R.S.E., of the 

 Roj'al Scottish Museum, will deliver his presidential address, entitled, 

 'Antarctic Bird-Life.' This will be illustrated by a fine series of lantern 

 slides from photographs taken during the National and Scottish Hlxpeditions. 

 l*"urtlui- iletails can be obtained from the Hon. Secretary, the Museum, Hull. 



' O/itioliip/iiis spinosus l^osc. Tiiis is an error, and the name must be 

 ex|)ungecl from the list. The mistake, however, is not due to the writer, who, 

 in the first instance, correctly named the specimen in question O. epliippia- 

 tus C.L.K., but altered it in deference to the opinions of the Rev. O. Pickard 

 Cambridge. Some doubt being still felt as to the accuracy of his determina- 

 tion, it was again submitted to liim, with the result that the original naming 

 was reverted to. 



Naturalist, 



