144 NOTES AND NEWS. 
Common Mouse. M. musculus. This we have usually in 
evidence. 
Brown Rat. Mus decumanus. We have this always with 
us, more especially since the gee of a favourite fox- » 
terrier belonging to my brothe 
Water Vole. Microtus Cech, Very common along the 
Dove, and particularly abundant along the Henmore brook. 
re Field Mouse. Microtus agre estis. Very 
ommon in the hedge banks and fields, and is now and then 
th in our greenhouse. 
Bank Vole. Microtus San Judging by the relative 
frequency of its capture in traps set in all sorts of places, this 
Vole is much commoner ges M. agrestis. ‘The other day 
I caught the largest specimen I have seen. It was a male, 
measuring 160 mm. from nose to end of tail. Tail 47 mm. 
Hare. Lepus europzus. Abundant, and affords sport to 
a local pack of harriers. 
nee Lupus cuniculus. Swarms throughout the district. 
e oa over the fields in the recent snow were a sight 
piu pay ef, Cervis dama. ‘These pretty deer are to be 
found at Keddleston, and just across the Staffordshire border in 
Okeover Park. 
January 21st, 1895. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
We m our old friend Mr, Edgar R. Waite, 
F.LS., aire ‘to tyke port ae ce at Sydney, entitled ‘New or Rare 
Fishes from Maroubra, N | W.,’ extracted from the Proceedings of the Linnean 
Society of New South Wales—Vol. 9—which treats si about a dozen species, 
some of which are figur ed from Mr. Waite’s own dra 
coe —__— 
t the April feiss of the Entomological Society of London, Mr. Francis 
Ga sis n, F.R.S., having rea paper entitled, ‘ Entomological Queries bearing on 
; ifiel ‘ va 
som 
years ago, from Sheffield, ova of Selenia illustrari via, the brood from which 
produced, in addition to typical specimens, four of a dark scinagay coleh, and 
from these he bred a number of specimens of a similar colou 
From our old friend, Mr. J. Burtt Davy, formerly of Alford, Lincs., and later 
of the Royal Herbarium at Kew, we have received the September number of 
E Phat 
ies,’ t seco r. Wi th 
ig himself to apiematia work, for which there is abundant scope in his 
sent post in the Department of Botany in the University oe ‘California. 
Naturalist, 
