346 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
NOTE—MOLLUSCA, 
Tectura testudinalis on the Sone ray Coast.—With regard to Mrs. 
Brierley’s note in the ‘Naturalist? for July, p. 200, she will be interested to know that 
I have taken it living at Gristhorpe, Filey and Flamborough, in the last two places 
in al ance. I have not kept pee or aig of the dates, but I have collected at 
intervals on the Yorkshire coast for the last eleven or twelve years. I am inclined 
to think that it would have been stor: oftener if collectors ‘rad taken advantage 
adh ay e low tides, as I believe it does not occur as a rule above the laminarian 
ie. in any quantity.—J. DARKER ereeeu. Willow Grove, Beverley, 
jay "th, 1895. 
NOTES—COLEOPTERA. 
A Sw of Ocypus olens (ante, p. 301).—This is by no means as uncommon 
as Mr. H Hiawienkosds supposes. For several seasons in succession I have observed 
the same _ at Scarborough, the or apnea being the north side of the 
ice i TE : 
oleoptera i is not so fully known as is ae: rs) the pre el we kn many 
pecies reach the perfect stage in from August—October and almost immediately 
go into hybernation until the c gr i is ins the simultaneous 
rin 
e 
E. G. BAYFORD, 2, Rockingham Stree, Darnaiey, 1oth Nov 
Hydroporus celatus: An n to the Yorkshire sascha: —I am glad to 
hid re to add pape species to the long list of Hydropori found i in ah aiid 
ne day last spring I took some small black Aydropori in a tiny rill that 
trickled down thie broad poy slope of Maw Rigg, a few ge beg of Langdale 
form is longer, and the antennz are of a clearer red colour, As I had not 
met with the Goocies belts Coe I felt I tle doubt on the omy care F sent them 
to Dr. Sharp, who at once con my identification.—W. C. , Derwent 
House, West Ayton, Vouk, Octaber 1895. 
NOTES needa NEWS. 
ie person r. Charles Sheard, of noe enden, one of the original founders 
of the seeing Seciiy of that village. He did not take up the study of natural 
— baer was 50 years of age, but -, hie time oon - the date of his 
age 
 aaieseoaia an enthusiastic botanist, familiar with the w on plants “of his neighbour- 
0d, 1 was also a real lover of goer in its bri aspect, well oe agree 
with the birds which came under - _ Chaeation, a taking besides 
pa in other branches. He di Mason Green, Ovenden, i in the same cave 
n which he was born and had lived all his life. 
f Westmorland, he w: at Mallerstang in gis and entered 
ats School in 1857 rom the school he went to oe gest bg 
— gained a Hastings Exhibition. Here he took Classical H. 
erwards curate at Tunbridge Wells, at Cautley and at Selbeegh, o 1875 
see acted as temporary headmaster to Sedbergh School, and in 1885 he 
appointed a J.P. for the West Riding. His own ‘hobbies were botany, 
arch nd archeology. His ‘ Florula Sedbergensis’ is out of print ; but the 
results are included in the appendix to ‘ West ipo — t — 
ed 
the Sedbergh meetings in 1887 and 1894 had t he advantage 
ce. oo t wor ks are ‘ Sedber gh, Garsdele andl Grek’ sad se Cede 
As ee ‘ 
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