218 : HEMIPTERA-HOMOPTERA OF ALFORD DISTRICT. 
Corixa striata Fieb. Farlesthorpe, in brickpits, April 22nd, 
1889. Well, in brickpits, one, May j3oth, 1888, abundant 
November 2nd, 1889. 
Corixa fabricii Fieb. Farlesthorpe, in brickpits, April 22nd, 
188 
Var. nigrolineata, Well, one in brickpit, May 30th, 1888. 
*Corixa meesta Fieb. Sutton-le-Marsh, in a delph, one, September 
30th, 1889. Farlesthorpe, April 22nd, 1889. F oak in a pond, 
June rst, 1889. 
NOTE—HEMIPTERA. 
Hemiptera-Homoptera of Alford District.—[There are ark ig of this 
sia entered i in ne Alford Register, the particulars of which w n Mr. 
Mason’s own wo! 
ae reece L. Rigsby-with-Ailby parish, Rigsby Wood, June 2nd, 
Triscplora vulnerata Ill. Ab y-with-Greenfield parish, road-hedge near 
Greenfield Wood, many, June 8th, 1887; J.W.M. Rigsby-with Ailby parish, 
Ailby Neat: hedge, some, June Sth, 1887; J.E.M. Well Vale, one, June roth, 
1888 ; 
—[Extracted from the Register ee by] sie EARDLEY MASON, Alford. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
From Mr, John H. Cooke, F.G.S., F.L.S., Editor of the ‘ Mediterranean 
Naturalist,’ who now apres at Lincoln, alert our area, a repr int of a paper 
in the May number of the gical Magazine Sang which he records the 
* Occurrence of Phoca scoenclen ann 3 in Maltese strata. 
po ~< 
e have to igen our colleague, Mr. Alfred Harker, M.A., on his 
axecolotunete to a post the Geological Survey of Scotland, although our 
felicitations are cecum tinged wok ees that it involves the necessi | ot bts 
es . ' Age erat 
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sold to the Museum of Science hase t at Edinburgh fe for £350. The regret is 0 ‘sof 
course that the authorities of t sa useum were not a eclentty alive to the 
importance of their own institution and to re a agi s to make sure of the 
retention of so lores « : i “ nag “ee e one redeeming feature in 
the matter is that d is now sles “property of a public inet 
we hold that it is desirable all oi cor seine ied of the Great Auk should be 
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oint of view of local research, the apers being all literary, even that on the 
i i résumé of the 
migration of birds, by Mr. harles W ite, which is merely a ré 
leading ornithol writers. The valuable and useful paper in the 
volume is that omas May, F.E.I.S., t Stone Implements, 
the Manchester Ship Canal is made, and figures of some of them given, a5 
as of the ‘ Bob’s Bridge Sle. and of a Roman vase found at Wilderspool. 
