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Psylla alni. — This insect I believe was considered rare in England up 

 to the time of Mr. Scott's monograjDh (Proc. Ent. Soc , London, 1876)^ 

 but it has since been discovered plentifully near Norwich, and I found it 

 very common in MoUicar Wood, near Huddersfield, on Sept. 30th. — • 



S. L. MOSLEY. 



Epeira scalaris (Walch), at Wharncliffe. — I took a beautiful specimen 

 of this fine spider at the above place on the 19th Sept. — S. L. Mosley. 



OoLEOPTERA AT NORLAND MooR. — The colcoptcra taken at the Union 

 excursion to Norland Moor on Sept. 8th, and which, through the kind- 

 ness of Mr. Roebuck, are now in my possession, were Nebria hrevicollis, 

 Pterostichus striola, P. madidus, and Calathus cisteloides. — Henry 

 Crowther, Leeds. 



Balea perversa. - I have to record the finding of the above, pretty 

 abundantly, by Mr. Charles Smethurst, during damp weather at Gras- 

 singham, Craven. — Henry Pollard, New Wortley, near Leeds. 



Pare Plants at Bosham. — At the meeting of the Chichester and West 

 Sussex Natural History Society, held here on October 9th, the following 

 plants were exhibited : — Centaurea Calcitrapa, C. solstitialiSf and Inula 

 Crithmoides, found growing at Bosham, a little village by the sea, and 

 about three miles distant from this town. — Joseph Anderson, Jun. 



A Correction. — Permit me to correct an error in the report of the 

 meeting of the Wakefield Naturalists' Society. I exhibited the following 

 beetles, and not the list you have published, which is altogether wrong : — 

 Cassida viridis, Chrysomela distinguenda, Phyllopertha Jiorticola, Xantho- 

 liniis fulgidns, Agahus tnaculatus, Sehia chlorocephala, Qtiorhynchus picipes^ 

 Atlious hoemorrhoidalis. — E. B. Wrigglesworth. 



Barnsley Naturalists' Society. — Monthly meeting, 3rd Sept , the 

 president, Mr. T. Lister, in the ch^iir. — Specimens of rocks and minerals 

 brought by the president from Devon and Cornwall, were exhibited, from 

 the Phoenix and Caradon tin and copper mines. He quoted the humane 

 views of Lady Burdett Coutts on the probable extermination of humming 

 birds, &c., for the vain objects of feminine decoration. The report of 

 birds for the summer months in Barnsley district was brief. On July 22 

 a tern flew over the town south-west ; on the 3rd, eight sea-gulls of a 

 large kind flew in the same direction ; a few more stragglers were noted, 

 also sandpipers and herons in that month and August. In the latter 

 month were observed kestrels, kingfishers, and the great snipe (very rare) 

 in the Dearne valley. The only summer migrants noted up to September 

 are — sand-martin, martin, swallow, yellow (or Ray's) wagtail), and willow 



