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just beyond Kibblehead Station ; it almost exactly matclied the rock in 

 colour. In the year 1881 I took several specimens of Salticus scenicus, 

 the zebra hunting-spider, in a greenhouse in York. These additional 

 localities may perhaps interest some one interested in the geographical 

 range of this group of animals;— Geo, W. Oldfield, Harrogate, 

 13th Feb., 1884 



Supplement to the Vertebrate Fauna, of Yorkshire. — Messrs. W. 

 Eagle Clarke and W. Denison Roebuck, Leeds, are preparing a supple- 

 ment to their Handbook of the Vertebrate Fauna of Yorkshire," and 

 would be glad to receive notes of additions or corrections to that work, or 

 notices of the occurrence of any species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, or 

 fishes in Yorkshire, which their friends may be pleased to communicate. 

 As they wish to publish the supplement in the April magazines, it is hoped 

 that information may be sent in immediately. 



REVIEW.—" Transactions of the Huddersfield Naturalists' Society.— 

 Part I." — We are very pleased to find that the Huddersfield Naturalists' 

 Society has decided to publish annually a part of " Transactions." Part 

 I., just issued, is before us, and we congratulate the Society on the result 

 of the beginning of its venture. The Part contains the Annual Report of 

 the Society for 1883, including the work done by the Geological, 

 Botanical, Vertebrate, and Entomological Sections, from which we find 

 that much useful work has been accomplished. The report of the last- 

 mentioned section, however, does not give an adequate idea of what was 

 done in Entomology during the year ; for few, we imagine, will concur 

 with the remark that ''the feature of the year has been the abundance of 

 the Autumn moths at lamps," when the fact remains that seven species of 

 lepidoptera were discovered quite new to the district (three of them 

 indeed new to the county) ; yet, although it is a good many years 

 since such an occurrence took place in the Huddersfield district, no 

 allusion whatever is made in the report either to the circumstance or to 

 any of the species. The names of all new additions to the fauna and 

 flora ought surely to be most prominent items in the reports on the work 

 done in the district. Then again, the report says, " several species which 

 have only occurred singly before, were this year extremely abundant. " 

 We are much interested to know what species are here alluded to, as we 

 certainly neither heard of nor noticed anything of the kind ourselves. 

 The feature of the Part, however, is "A Catalogue of the Lepidoptera 

 found in the Huddersfield District." There are lists of both the Macros 

 and the Micros, and as thej^ seem to be complete and accurate so far as the 

 district is known, they will doubtless prove of great value to the younger 

 lepidopterists of the Society and neighbourhood. The summary gives 

 339 Macros and 327 Micros, or a total of 666 species as having been taken 

 in the district. The Macros have been well worked up, but the number 

 of Micros will no doubt be considerably increased as years go by. The 

 price of the Part to non-members of the Society is Is. 6d.. and may be 

 had from the Secretary, Mr. S.L. Mosley, Beaumont Park, Huddersfield. 



