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Various Short Notes. 



Hippuris vulgaris is recorded for V.C. 60 in ' Topographical 

 Botany,' and the' following- species, also marked N.C.R. by 

 Mr. Lees, were published in 1891 in the 'Flora of the Stony- 

 hurst District ' : — 



Filago germanica. 



Calamintha clinopodium. 



Scirpus lacustris. 



Juncus diffusus. 



Carex ampullacea was recorded from Garstang in the 

 Botanical Record Club Report for 1881-2 by Mr. A. Wilson. 



The island of Walney is not a portion of West Lancashire 

 (60), as appears to be implied in Mr. Lees' opening remarks. 



NO TE — LEPIDOPTERA . 



Sphinx convolvuli at Bradford. — In the last week in September a 

 specimen of ^S. convolvuli was taken here in a busy part of the town, while 

 at rest under a 'coal drop.' It was kept alive for a week and fed with 

 bread ! therefore its condition is such as might be expected — a bald and 

 battered creature. It was sent to me alive, but useless. It is many years 

 since one was recorded for this district. — J. W. Carter, Manning-ham, 

 Bradford, 12th October 1899. 



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NO TE—COLEOPTERA. 



Pyrochroa serraticornis in Cumberland.— In the Naturalist' for 

 1896, p. 210, a Bradford correspondent records the occurrence of this beetle 

 near Ripley, and asks if it has been taken further north. Perhaps it may 

 be of interest to him and others to know that it occurs, though sparingly, 

 as -far north as Cumberland. Three years ago I had two specimens 

 brought me by a rural postman, which were found by him in a country lane 

 near Burgh-by-Sands, from where the blue hills of southern Scotland are 

 visible across the shimmering waters of the Solway. This year it has 

 occurred at Salkeld, near Penrith. It was also taken many years ago by 

 Mr. T. C. Heysham, near the village of Cummersdale, and recorded in 

 Stephens' ' Illustrations '. under the name of P. mbens. — Jas. Murray, 

 .11, Close Street, Carlisle, 24th October 1899. 



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NO TE—DIPTERA . 



Abundance Of the Celery Fly. — During the past season this beautiful 

 dipteron {Tephrilis onopordinis Curtis) has occurred in this district in 

 excessive numbers, so much so, indeed, that it may truhy be regarded as a 

 destructive pest. In the gardens of my friends, Mr. F. Rhodes, of Under- 

 cliffe, and Mr. F. Jowett, of Gilstead, every leaf on every plant of celery in 

 the trenches bore the characteristic brown blotch, in early September, and 

 now not a leaf remains on the plants; and as a consequence of the powers 

 of assimilation being cut short, the celery has suffered severely. In the 

 garden last mentioned, although my friend has been there for several years 

 and annually grown celery, he has not before been plagued with the ' fly.' 

 From other gardens which I have not seen comes the same woeful tale of 

 destruction. ' The larva? evidently mostly enter the ground to pupate, as 

 the light-brown or ochrous oval pupa cases may be gathered in hundreds at the 

 present time. — J. W. Carter, Manningham, Bradford, 10th October 1899. 



Naturalist, 



