MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



The Fungus Foray of 1888, as a whole, may be regarded as 

 highly successful, and it is to be hoped that it will give as much 

 impetus to the study of fungi in Yorkshire as was given by that held 

 in 1 88 1. The foray of that year was the first ever held in the 

 county, and it can be truly said that the seven years intervening 

 between it and the one now chronicled have witnessed more 

 practical work than had been done since the day of James Bolton, 

 the author of ' The Fungusses of Halifax,' now about a century ago. 

 We do not know how many fungusses Bolton collected, but the 

 Yorkshire list which Mr. Massee contributed to the 'Transactions of 

 the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union' after the foray of 1881, included 

 318 species, while for the West Riding alone the number cited in 

 Lees' 'Flora of West Yorkshire,' published 1888, is 1,009, to which 

 forty-one are added as the result of the Foray of 1888. May it not 

 be so many years before the third Yorkshire Foray is held, and may 

 it be even more successful than its two predecessors of 1881 and 1888! 



NOTE— FUNGI. 

 i^cidium calthae dev. near Kendal. — This cluster-cap, which seems to be 

 very local, and which I have often sought for in vain, was growing in abundance 

 on one spot on the side of Benson Knot near Kendal, in June ©f this year, on the 

 leaves of Caltha pahistris. It was interesting, from its bearing on the theory of 

 dimorphism, to find Pzuchiea calt/uc Lk. (also rather a rare fungus) growing on 

 the same plants in September. — C. H. Waddell, Whitewell, Belfast, Oct. 25th. 



NOTE—COLEOPTERA. 



Coleoptera at Market Weighton, Aug-ust 6th, 1888. — As a supplement to 

 the report in last month's Natitralist^ I may remark that amongst other captures 

 were Oxyporus riifiis and Mycetopliagiis qiiadriptistJilahis. One very noticeable 

 thing was the absence of Geodephaga, for, excepting a few Aviam, Calathtis 

 cistdoides, and C. nielanocephahis, I saw none. — E. G. Bavford, West Melton 

 near Rotherham, September 12th, 1888. 



NOTE—ARA CHNIDA. 



Lincolnshire Spiders. — The following three spiders, my specimens of 

 which have been kindly examined by the Rev. O. Pickard - Cambridge, are 

 additions to the list of spiders obtained in the county of Lincoln, published 

 at pp. 55-59 of The Nahcralist for 1887 : — 



Argyroneta aqtiatica Bl. Two observed in a drain bv Monk's House Lane, 

 near Spalding, and another found running upon the beach at Mal)Iethorpe, the 

 latter having, doubtless, been washed down from the marnh-drains. August 1888. 



LinypJiia vivax Bl. Taken in an out-lniilding at 7, Lee Street, Louth, 

 April 1887. 



Lycosa pahistris L. Cleethorpes, April 1887. 



While in Lincolnshire in August last, I found the beautiful Epcira scalaris in 

 Bourn Woods, in the south of the county ; and in several places in the marshes, 

 and near Gosberton in the fens, observed Epeira corniita numerously by the 

 drain-sides. Near Wragby, three of the dome-shaped webs containing the young 

 of Ocyale mirabilis were noticed. Two of these were upon low herbage, while 

 the third was amongst furze fully eighteen inches from the ground. In each case 

 the adult spider was near the web, and one was observed to have a Tipi<!a within 

 its grasp. — H. Wallis Kfav, London, 8th October, 1S8S. 

 Nov. i888. 



