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Epithemia sorex Kutz. (R Denticula tenuis Kutz. 
Epithemia gibba Kutz. (R. ; Tabellaria flocculosa Roth, (F.). ~ 
hemia zebra Ehr. (R.) Surirella ovalis Breb. ( 
Eunotia lunaris Grun. (R.). tzschia linearis W.Sm. (F.) 
Eunotia pectinalis var. ventricosa Nitzschia dubia W.Sm. (R.). 
Grun, Nitzschia sigmoid hr. (C.). 
Eunotia eiaicaths Rab. (F.). Nitzschia fasciculata Grun. (R.). 
Eunotia arcus var. minor Ehr. (R.). Nitzschia acicularis W.Sm. (R.). 
Synedra radians Grun: (C.). Melosira varians Ag. (C.). 
Synedra ulna Ehr. (F.) Cyclotella kutzingiana Chauvin A i 
Synedra uln \ qualis (R.) Cmatopleura elliptica W.Sm 
Synedra hapa Ebr. (G:}. Cymatopleura solea W.Sm. (F ge 
Fragilaria capucina Desi (C..). Diatoma elongatum Ag. (C. ). ‘ 
Meridion circulare Ag. (R be: Colletonema lacustre Ag. (R.). 
N ya TRICHOPTERA. 
ae So ennis in Derbyshire.—On_ igth tober last, 
fr See. took several specimens of this species a Lathkildale, 
near Bakev oa "The sites other British localities known for the insect are 
Pic chonap t in Yorkshire, and Alford in Lincolnshire. —Gro. T. PoRRITT, 
Crosland Hall, Huddersfield, 14th January 18¢9. 
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NOTE— LEPIDOPTERA. 
Ephestea Slope igen in Yorkshire.—The ay Cyril D. Ash informs 
me he took a men of this shecies at Skipwi CWevsnbee last. The 
species has heir piers usly been recorded for Vorkshire though several 
years ago outside Doncaster railway s station, I] saw, but did not. secur wh a 
ec which *n, and have ever since, fancied was this species.— 
oO. T. PoRRITT, an January 1899. 
NOTE—-ORNI THOLOGY. 
ies as bln veil agro ' of Game-Fowl: a Query.—Can any 
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»reader, whose memory ack to the time when cock-fighting was 
a popular sport, say r hether sy was a res ah custom for breeders of 
game-fowls to place eggs in Magpies’ nests? A few months ago I heard 
of a farmer at Handforth, in Fast Che shire who sed to do so, in the belief 
that eclet Bing incubated by Magpies would devel ra fighting qualities above 
the average. woe infor mant can recollect climbing to a Ma agpie’s nest for : 
is farmer, in order t birth was proclaimed. f 
by their plaintive chip ng. This would be some fifty or sixty years ago, 
when the Magpie s perhaps even more e plentiful in East Cheshire than it 
is now. To stu ents of folk-lore it would be interesting to know whether 
the practice of yeti sista ats tsi! eggs for those of the moore 
Sheed Pica Agel was a gene , or merely the Nar me of a single breeder. 
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NOTES AND NEWS. 
The death of Prof. Henry Alleyne Nicholson is announced. He was a 
Cumbrian by birth, born at Penrith, in 1844, and was the son of a distin- 
guished philologist. His work and career as a Professor, at Edinburgh, 
Dur y at Abe 
February. 
