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useless as a specimen, the throat being greasy, while round the base of 

 the bill the feathers were already very loosely attached. On opening 

 the mouth I noticed some tiny larvae of the blowfly, which rather 

 surprised me ; but it is just possible that in the warm cabin of the 

 boat, situated as it is near the engines, sundry bluebottles had shipped 

 themselves as members of the crew. — Arthur H. Patterson (Ibis 

 House, Great Yarmouth). 



ARACHNID A. 



Chelifer cancroides (Linn.). — It was a surprise to me to read, in 

 ' The Zoologist ' (ante, p. 388), that the Rev. 0. Pickard-Cambridge 

 was only able to refer to four British specimens of Chelifer in 1892. 

 Chelifers of this species have always been fairly common in this neigh- 

 bourhood, and I have generally met with a few when sifting dead 

 leaves in search of minute Helices, especially amongst beech and haw- 

 thorn leaves. A paper on Pseudoscorpions was read before the Quekett 

 Microscopical Society on October 25th, 1867, and in the discussion 

 which followed it was stated that nine species of the genera Chelifer and 

 Obisium had then been found in Great Britain. The excellent micro- 

 photograph of Chelifer cancroides in ' The Zoologist ' will, I hope, be 

 followed by similar photos of the other British species. — John R. B. 

 Masefield (Rosehill, Cheadle, Staffordshire). 



