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NOTES — MYCOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY. 



silvery-green (not purple) colour of the tufts, and their softness 

 to the touch, served sufficiently well to enable one to distinguish 

 it at first sight from Bryitm alpinum. It ought to occur in many 

 places in the district. 



Here again thanks are due to Mr. Boswell for the final deter- 

 mination of the species. 



Cinclidium stygium Swartz. Although not so rare as some other 

 Lake District mosses, it is interesting to know that this notable 

 plant grows in Westmorland. It was found in a wet, peaty 

 place, in small quantity, on the Howgill Fells, near Tebay. It 

 may be added that it was in a fertile state. 



Hylocomium umbratum Schreb. This occurred at Grasmere in 

 December last. It grows in tolerable abundance in a wood, in 

 company with Hylo. squarrosiiin, loreum^ and splendejis. The 

 Grasmere form of the moss is smaller and less branched than 

 usual, and the colour is dark green. 



NOTE— FUNGI. 

 Hygrophorus sciophanus Fr. near Kendal.— This species grew 



plentifully last month in groups on dry heathy places on the hills near this. — C. H. 

 Waddell, Kendal, 15th November, 1886. 



NOTE—HYMENOPTERA, 

 Cheshire Sawflies. — At the meeting of the Microscopical and Natural 

 History Section of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, November 

 8th, 1886, Mr. Peter Cameron, J^.E.S., exhibited Nematus fagi Zadd., a sawfly 

 unrecorded as British, from vSale, where the larvae were found feeding on a beech- 

 hedge. He also stated that he had been experimenting with Eriocampa anmilipes 

 (whose larvae were very destructive to the beech and hawthorn hedges at Sale 

 during the last summer) and had succeeded in getting virgin females to lay eggs 

 from which he had reared some males. At the meeting on December 6th, he 

 exhibited Blemiocainpa fuli^inosa Schrank {non K\ug) = a^ern';ua Klug — from 

 Chobham. It has not been found in Britain since it was discovered 40 years ago 

 by the present Marquis of Ripon. — John Boyd, Hon. Sec. 



NOTE^HEMIPTERA. 

 Acanthosoma hsemorrhoidalis washed up on the coast of 



Lincolnshire. — Not long since, while looking at a case containing a general 

 collection of insects belonging to Mr. Robert Garfit, of this town, I noticed a 

 female specimen oi Acaitthosoma h(ZuiorrhoidaUs^ and remarking that the bug was 

 tolerably abundant in the neighbourhood, he told me that a boxful of them had 

 been given him some years ago, one autumn, by Mr. Bucknall, of Hogsthorpe, a 

 shoemaker with a taste for natural history, who had found them washed up on the 

 seashore at Mumby Chapel ' by bucketfuls ' all along the beach. Has a migratory 

 habit been previously noted in this or any other of our Heteropterous Hemiptera ? 

 — J AS. Eardlfa' Mason, Alford, loth January, 1887. 



NOTE—LEPIDOPTERA. 

 Lycaena agestis in Upper Wharfedale.— A short time ago my 



friend Mr. Soppitt gave me a little butterfly for determination, which I was glad 

 to recognise as Z. agestis. It was taken at Grassington last July, thus adding 

 another locality for this uncommon Yorkshire species. — J. W. Carter, V alley St., 

 Bradford, January 31st, 1887. Naturalist, 



