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fauna during 1903. One of these is of considerable interest 

 to entomologists, and a short account of it may not be out of 

 place. Among some insects collected near Derby in June, 

 1903, by Mr. G. Pullen, was a single Hemipteron, which was 

 sent for determination to Mr. E. Saunders, the author of 

 the well-known monograph on the Hemiptera Heteroptera of 

 Great Britain. Mr. Saunders identified it as Elasmostethus 

 ferrugatus, Fb., a species which had only once previously 

 been taken in the British Isles, viz., at Bangor, in North Wales. 

 Its occurrence in our county is most remarkable, and has 

 aroused much interest among Hemipterists. Mr. Jourdain has 

 contributed to this volume the latest results of his researches 

 among the Aculeate Hymenoptera, and it is hoped that the 

 publication of a county list will result in a considerable increase 

 of our knowledge of these interesting insects. 



Two New Books. — Notes on Hardwick Hall, by the Rev. 

 F. Brodhurst, has now been published, and more than meets 

 the expectations of it foreshadowed in our last volume. It 

 comprises over one hundred octavo pages and a dozen well- 

 executed plates. Mr. Brodhurst opens with an account of 

 the foundation of the Hall, of the story of its builder, and 

 of the captivity of Queen Mary. Whilst upon this latter 

 subject, he deals logically and interestingly with the question 

 of the authenticity of contemporary portraits of that unfor- 

 tunate sovereign, and brings new evidence to bear upon it. 

 Then he conducts his readers through the Hall, calls their 

 attention to what — and its name is legion — they should note 

 in passing, and describes in detail all the principal pictures, 

 adding careful biographical notes to each portrait. The cost 

 of the book is but nominal, and Mr. Brodhurst, by his example, 

 has earned the appreciation of all those who wish to encourage 

 an intelligent interest in that purely British privilege — the 

 public visitation of private historic mansions. [Price 3s. 

 Newton Wright, Cavendish Stree^, Chesterfield ; and at the Hall.] 



Some Notices of Castleton and its old Inhabitants, 1645-1837, 

 by the Rev. W. H. Shawcross. The writer of this little book 

 is well known to Derbyshire genealogists as the author of 



