2 TO NOTES COLEOPTERA AND MOSSES. 



And lastly I might allude to the dearth of knowledge apper- 

 taining to the nature and distribution of the Lincolnshire relics of 



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the Glacial Period known as erratics. In Yorkshire the systematic 

 study of this valuable phase of geological history has been carried 

 on for some years ; in Lincolnshire it is but just being initiated. 



On the broader questions of the correlation of the Lincolnshire 

 rocks with the rocks of other districts I do not now propose to dwell. 

 The data at present available for such comparisons are insufficient 

 for utilisation with any degree of accuracy. Such questions as the 

 synonymity of the Lincoln Carstone and the Norfolk (Hunstanton) 

 Limestones must be allowed to remain in abeyance until all available 

 evidences bearing upon their lithology, palaeontology and stratigraphy 

 have been collected. By the collection and systematic arrangement 

 of definitely ascertained facts, such as these that I have just 

 indicated, our local geologists might be of real service to the cause 

 of Natural History. But while urging them to give their assistance 

 to this work, I would at the same time point out that records of this 

 kind should not be their ultimate aim and objects They should 

 make themselves en rapport with the philosophy of their subject, 



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and endeavour to keep themselves in touch with all new discoveries 

 and theories appertaining to it. 



NOTES— COLEOPTERA. 



Pyrochroa serraticornis near Ripley. — A specimen of this insect taken at 

 Markington, near Ripley (Yorks. ), by Miss Roebuck on June ist, has been 

 forwarded to me. I find according to Fowler that there is no record of its 

 occurrence from Ireland or Scotland, but that it is common in the midlands and 

 south. Does any reader of the - Naturalist ' know whether it has been taken 

 further north than the present record? — Leonard Hawkesworth, Bolton 

 Woods, Bradford, June 13th, 1S96. 



Acanthocinus asdiiis near Barnsley. — A very fine female of this species was 

 sent to me alive on the 1st May from one of our collieries, and an equally hne 

 male, also alive, was received from the same source on the 1st June. The former 

 possessed the power of stridulation in a very marked degree, but I was unable to 

 induce the male to display it if he possessed it. The means by which stridulation 

 is produced in this species is by rubbing the bases of the thorax and elytra against 

 each other, — E. G. Bay ford, 2, Rockingham Street, Barnsley, June 4th, 1896. 



NOTE— MOSSES. 



Bryiim murale Wils. in the East Riding. - 1 have lately discovered this 



interesting moss near Goodmanham, growing on a clay bank. The site is different 

 from that usually given in the text books, viz., in mortar of old walls. There is 

 some doubt as to whether it has been recorded for Yorkshire before. Mr. Slater 

 has the impression that it was gathered by Mr. Hobkirk in the Malham district. 

 It is certainly new for this Riding, and I have added it to Dr. Parsons' list. It ^ 

 closely allied to Bryum erythrocarpwn^ and in Schimpers synopsis is given as 

 var. mitrontm of that plant. It is widely distributed in Britain, for besides 

 several stations in the midland and wester counties, there are Scotch and Vt sh 



-J. J. Marshall, Pharmaceutical 



Natural^ 



records, and it has also been found at Killarney 

 Chemist, Market Weigh ton. 



