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NO TE — NEUROPTERA. 



Hemerobius concinnus near Selby. — The Rev. C. D. Ash sent me 

 a specimen of the brown form of this local species, which he had taken at 

 Skipwith this year. — Geo. T. Porritt, Crosland Hall, Huddersfield, 

 20th December 1899. 



NOTE— FUNGI. 



Volvaria parvula at Campsall. — I have to record an omission from 

 my list of fungi found at the Yorkshire Fungus Foray, published in 'The 

 Naturalist ' for December, pp. 367-372. This is an interesting- species — 

 Volvaria parvula Fr. — found at Campsall by Mr. Thomas Gibbs. — Charles 

 Crosslaxd, Halifax, 7th December 1899. 



NO TE — TR ICHOPTERA . 



Limnophilus luridus and Molanna angustata at Huddersfield. — 



On 20th June last, I was somewhat surprised to find Limnophilus luridus in 

 some plenty about the walls on the Harden Moss Moors, and recently 

 Mr. B. Morley sent me Molanna angustata from Clayton West. Both 

 species are new to fhe Huddersfield district, and L. luridus to West York- 

 shire. — Geo. T. Porritt, Crosland Hall, Huddersfield, 20th December 1899. 



NOTE—COLEOPTERA. 



Cyllene crinicornis at Retford. — A specimen of this pretty Central 

 American Longicorn Beetle {Cylleue. crinicornis Chevrolat) was taken alive in 

 Retford Station in September last, and came into the possession of 

 Mr. Stephen Pegler, of Retford. It bears a superficial resemblance to 

 Clytus ara/ati/s, one of the rarer ' Wasp Beetles.' Xo doubt the specimen 

 was introduced in timber. — Alfred Thornley, South Leverton Vicarage, 

 Lincoln, 8th December 1899. 



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BOOK NOTICES. 



We have received through the kindness of Mr. Arthur Bennett, 

 F.L.S., a reprint of his paper in the October Annals of Scottish Natural 

 History on ' Hierochloa borealis R.&S., as a Scottish Species,' which 

 includes much detail on its general range. 



We have before us the ' Transactions of the Hull Scientific and 

 Field Naturalists' Club I for the year 1899. Vol. I. No. 11., which 

 was published on the 1st of December, and is edited by Messrs. Thomas 

 Sheppard and J. R. Boyle, F.S. A., and we have again the satisfactory task 

 of congratulating them and the Society on the excellence of their work. 

 There is not a single note or paper which does not refer to the Club's own 

 proper sphere of operations, and the needful element of humour is supplied 

 by the little poem by Mr. R. H. P[hilip] at the end, in which the colossal 

 and superhuman attainments of the 'average [Hull] member' are set forth. 

 The papers include articles on the Hull Water Supply, by the Rev. H. P. 

 Slade ; the Chalk Water Supplv of Yorkshire, bv Mr. J. R. Mortimer; the 

 Contents and Origin of the Gravels around Hull, by Mr. T. Sheppard ; 

 a Bronze Celt recently found in Holderness, by the same ; Mr. William 

 Morfitt's Reminiscences of a Whale Hunt at Goole over 30 years ago ; 

 Mr. J. J. Marshall on the Mosses of the East Riding ; a List of the 

 Lepidoptera of the Hull 8-mile district, bv Mr. J. W. Boult ; Notes on the 

 Progress made by the Club during 1898-9, and a paper on a Fragment of 

 the Early History of Spurn, by Mr. J. R. Boyle ; in addition to about eight 

 small notes of various kinds. The process frontispiece represents the 

 gravel pits at Burstwick and Kelsev Hill. 



Natu ralist, 



