vine: micro-paleontology of redesdale shales. 103 



With regard to the finest siftings of the Redesdale Shales, it will 

 be a satisfaction to the student to know that if small portions are 

 mounted in balsam, fine specimens of transparent T?'ochammma 

 incerta will be found, together with sections of spines, fragments of 

 Brachiopodous shells, and reticulated portions of Kirkbya Permiana. 

 The finer debris, however, is by no means so rich in organic forms 

 as are some of the Scotch Shales. 



To be continued. 



Note. — In the October number, on p. 64, will the reader kindly place between 



the description of species 7 and 8, the mark . Hyphasmapora Buskii does 



not belong to the family Diploporidse. Its classificatory position is not yet 

 satisfactorily made out, but this note may prevent a misconception in the mind of 

 the student, which its present association would engender. 



ZOOLOGICAL NOTES— ARACHNID A. 



PseudOSCOrpionS new to Britain.— Having just now received, 

 through the kindness of Mr. Denison Roebuck, two examples of Chernes nodosus 

 (Schrank) for examination, I take this opportunity of recording it for the first time 

 as a British species. It is not, however, new to me as British, as I have an example 

 found in Dorsetshire several years ago, and another received during the past summer 

 from Mr. R. H. Meade, of Bradford, Yorkshire. This species, like some others of 

 the group, is I believe often found attached, by means of its forcipated palpi, to the 

 legs of a fly, which, whatever may be the motive of the Pseudoscorpion, certainly 

 furnishes it with a means of distribution. Mr. Meade's example was thus dis- 

 covered. Of the two specimens sent by Mr. Roebuck, one had been taken at 

 Bradford by Mr. William West, attached to the leg of a house-fly, and the other 

 was found by Mr. George Hainsworth, of Leeds, in a book in his library. 



I also take occasion now to record for the first time as British another pretty little 

 species of a different genus — Chthonms tenuis L.Koch — found, though rarely, both in 

 spring and autumn, among moss in woods in this neighbourhood, as well as 

 Chelij'er subruber E.Simon, of which examples were kindly sent to me in 1880 by 

 Mr. W. P. Haydon, of Dover, found by that gentleman in his oil-mills. It is 

 possible, though by no means certain, that this may be an imported species. I have 

 since received another species of the same genus from Mr. Haydon, found in the 

 same habitat. M. Simon considers it to be of an undescribed species ; this also 

 may possibly have been imported among the raw material used in the oil manu- 

 facture. I may mention that although I have been able to determine tolerably 

 satisfactorily some of the species included by Dr. Leach in his short monograph 

 {Zool. Miscellany, vol. iii., 181 7), there are several of which I much want to see 

 fresh examples, viz.: — Obisiiun mtiscorum Leach, O. mariti77ium Leach, and 

 Chelifer Latreillii Leach. — O. P. Cambridge, Bloxworth, near Wareham, Dorset- 

 shire, November 7th, 1884. 



NO TES— COLEOPTERA, 



Astynomus gedilis at Hull— it may perhaps interest coleopterists to 

 record that several specimens of Astynomus csdilis have been taken in Hull this 

 autumn. Their occurrence here appears rare, for local observers of natural history 

 are unfamiliar with them ; but we have no coleopterist amongst us. I conjecture 

 that they are foreign, brought by Norwegian and Swedish wood ships, for they 

 have all been found in the streets or outskirts of the town. — N. F. Dobree, Hull, 

 November 4th, 1884. 



Dec. 1884. 



