178 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
difficult subjects for the taxidermist to: treat naturally, and even it 
the national collection at South Kensington, where most the 
specimens are exquisitely handled, there is room for considerable 
improvement amongst the mice. They are so small that it is vey 
difficult in modelling the lips with clay, not to get those that have — 
pointed noses, too blunt, and vice versa. Again, the tails in some — 
species, like AZus sylvaticus, are very delicate ; if left unskinned they. = 
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wrapping the whole length of the tail without splitting it. Am exact 
representation of a mouse hunched up into a small round ball with | 
the fur fluffed out, a position often assumed by the Harvest Mou = 
is almost impossible of attainment. 
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_ NOTE— DIPTERA. 
Chironomus sylvestris at Lincoln.— Chironomus (oa Van de “= 
svlvestris.—A pair ‘in cop.’ dropped on my book here on the 27th Ape a | 
The or — of the long black thin body of the i ale with t i 
for; of the female ae bust 
me. —JAS. Ear 
erkeley says of it, ‘mol erie i 
Me Contloasts is a lover of re in all its for ee thered an Le ish 
pe him. m the the ‘ibs 
ora, ‘stem 4 inch high, cee deeply but regularly costato-lacumost, "4, 
ot at the top and forming Seicaations paar saath ofthe ¢ the cups ree : 
present the appearance of a cluster of pillars su orting a fon : 
fretwork between them.’ Both are sani speci si —W. Fo os Livers 
Vicarage, May 14th, 1897. 
lean Gaaae 
is aware, it ia record the East ing. 
interesting ores of Fh e 
fruiting of Hy yg Ae K 
May 21st, —. Siganten Wm. InGHAM, B. 
