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of its fresh environment. After a brief period of exercise, during 

 which- it twice settled on a book, it alighted on the corner of a 

 picture, and there remained hanging during the remainder of the day. 

 It was absolutely free from any disagreeable scent, and seemed to be 

 of a mild disposition, never attempting to bite, even if roughly 

 handled.' It was placed at night in a glass cage, and supplied with 

 water, which it lapped with eagerness, clinging to the back of the 

 case by its posterior limbs, the anterior portion of the body resting 

 upon the saucer's edge. Unfortunately, it refused to eat, though 

 supplied with house flies and mealworms, and in spite of care only 

 survived its companion a few days. Twice it uttered a low cry 

 when being handled. 



As already remarked, the specimens in question were undoubtedly 

 Greater Horse-shoe Bats, a species for which the writer and others 

 have of late years searched unsuccessfully in Kent's Cavern, where it 

 was formerly obtained by Montagu. 



NOTES— MAMMALIA. 

 Lesser Horse-shoe Bat in Nidderdale.— On September 23rd a 



friend and I found one of these Bats suspended from the roof of a disused level of 

 a coal mine, near Pateley Bridge. This confirms Mr. Storey's previous note of 

 this species {Rhinolophns hipposideros) in this district. — W. C. Clarkson, Pateley 

 Bridge, October 16th, 1886. 



[It is of interest to confirm the occurrence of a species like this on what is, so 

 far, the northernmost outskirt of its known range in Britain. — Ens.] 



Whitby Notes.— Mammalia.— In the Whitby Museum is the skull of 

 what is here called the Bottle-nosed Whale, which was stranded at Whitby many 

 years ago ; it is labelled Delphi mis {Hyperdodon) bidentahis. 



On the 29th September, 1886, a Porpoise {Phcccena communis) was brought 

 into Whitby, caught in the herring-nets. — Thomas Stephenson, Whitby, 15th 

 October, 1886. . == ^=^ = 



NOTE— ARACHNIDA. 

 Chelifer DeG-eerii Koch near the Lincolnshire Coast.— 



On 2nd October, 1886, I took two examples of this pseudo-scorpion from behind 

 the decayed bark of some wooden railings, near the sea, at Mablethorpe. Earlier 

 in the summer I observed other specimens in the same locality, one of which had eggs 

 attached to the underside of her abdomen. Mr. Cambridge, who kindly identified 

 the species, states that he had only before received it from Hastings. — H. Wallis 

 Kew, Louth, Lincolnshire, 7th October, 1886. 



NOTE—CR USTA CEA. 



Galathea strigosa on the Yorkshire Coast.— Last August a 

 specimen of this crustacean was given me which had been taken at Runs wick, in 

 a net (trawl, I presume). Happening to be in Scarborough shortly after, Mr. E. 

 Thompson, of Westborough, naturalist, showed me a large number of specimens of 

 it, about an inch long, and said they were frequently brought into Scarborough. 

 He called it the Squat Lobster, and I see that Mr. P. H. Gosse, in one of his 

 papers, calls it the Squat Crab. Reference is made to its habit of springing back- 

 wards to a very considerable distance, when alarmed, and its ability to so spring 

 backwards into a small hole for shelter with unerring aim. — Edward H. Smart, 

 The Vicarage, Kirby-in-Cleveland, via Northallerton, September 3rd, 1886. 



Nov. 1886. 



