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NOTE— MAMMALIA. 



Badger in County Durham. — A very fine full-growu male Badger 

 (Meles meles), weighing- 20 lbs., and very fat, was caught on Friday, 5th 

 January 1900, on the Woodlands estate, between Satley and Consett, in 

 West Durham, by Mr. J. Earle, gamekeeper to Mr. W. B. Van Hansbergen, 

 J. P., while trapping rabbits. This animal is also found in the quieter parts 

 of the valleys of the Upper Derwent, Upper Wear, and Upper Tees. I have 

 records of no less than sixteen having been captured in these localities since 

 1880. — J. W. Fawcett, Satley, Darlington, 20th January 1900. ' 



Vanessa antiopa at Huddersfield. — The proverbial hick of the 

 beginner is well illustrated by the following. Yesterday, Mr. T. P. 

 Crosland, J. P., of this town, called with his son, Arthur Clive Crosland, 

 a boy of ten l years old, to show me a specimen of Vanessa antiopa the latter 

 had captured in a field off Trinit)' Street, Huddersfield, on' 31st October 

 last. The boy said he had caught it with his cap, and that ' it took a good 

 deal of catching.' I know of no previous occurrence in this district since 

 1872, but the past autumn was evidently an exceptionally good one for the 

 species of the genus Vanessa, as indicated by the large numbers which 

 frequented our gardens. I omitted to state in my note (Nat., January 1900, 

 p. 16) that Vanessa urticce also occurred, I believe not uncommonly, along 

 with the V. atalanta and V. io, it also now being comparatively seldom 

 seen here. — Geo. T. Porritt, Huddersfield, 5th January 1900. 



The Ceiery Fly : Ravages at Huddersfield. — We had exactly the 

 same experience here with the Celery Fly {Tephritis onopordinis) as is 

 recorded by Mr. J. W. Carter (Nat., January 1900, p. 2). W 7 e had an 

 unusually larg-e quantity of young celery, of several varieties, planted out 

 last year, and for a time all appeared to be going on well with them : then 

 the brown blotches appeared on the leaves of every plant, and soon nothing- 

 but the stiff ends of the stalks were to be seen above ground. The effect 

 produced on the bunches was that they were short in growth, and being 

 only about a quarter'or less of the thickness they ought to have been, were 

 not worth gathering. I am told all the growers of celery in this district 

 had a similar experience, though in my own case at any rate, nothing of 

 the kind had been noticed in previous years. — Geo. T. Porritt, Crosland 

 Hall, Huddersfield, 5th January 1900. 



Polyzoa, etc., at Southport. — The few mentions of Southport 

 Polyzoa in Vol. I. of the ' Fauna of Liverpool Bay,' 1886, embolden me to 

 send the following short list of a gathering in April 1898. I should not 

 advise anyone to collect on the sands at Birkdale, a place where, when 

 I was there, dead dogs, cats, and sea birds, besides other refuse, were 

 more conspicuous than the species which interested me ; fortunately the 

 dry shifting sand acted as a munimifier. 



Flustra foliacea L. Birkdale ; Southport. 



Membranipora membranacea L. Birkdale ; Southport. 



Scrnpocellaria reptans L. Southport. 



Amathia lendigera L. Birkdale ; Southport. 



Sertularia operculata L. Southport. 



Hydrallmania falcata L. Birkdale ; Southport. 

 — S. L. Petty, Ulverston, 16th January 1900. 



NO TE — LEPIDOPTERA. 



NO TE — DIPTERA. 



NOTE— POLYZOA. 



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