Notes — Fishes and Coleoptera. 



Another (125), 9 in. altogether, thin in texture, lobes not 

 cut or divided, but unequal in size, the longest lobe on each 

 side placed about a third of distance from apex. S.E. 



Another (136) has broad lobes, averaging y 2 in. across, 

 some of them are bifid, some shortened, others narrowed 

 and serrulate towards the point. North. 



[lobatum Sidebotham. Seen in S.W. Cumberland, Duddon 

 Wodds ; not gathered.] 



[multifidum Moore. Three plants on a wall near the lodge of 

 Duddon Hall. Two of the plants taken to cultivate ; both 

 dead, after losing their characters.] 



obtusum Stansfield. 183. Length of frond, including stipes, 

 10 in. E.S.E. I have five specimens, three inclining to 

 E., one to W. The smallest (117) 5 in. long and 2 in. 

 broad; the longest found on plant. N.N.E. 



There are no specimens of true serrtitum Moore amongst 

 mine, but one (148) is serrate on upper half of frond. 



serrulato-bifidum Monkm. 59 S.S.E., 127 N.W., are the 

 best ; not a scarce form, I should think, in shady places. 



variegatum Barnes. Two plants on the Knott, Broughton-in- 

 Furness. One taken (54), but proved inconstant in cultiva- 

 tion, w.n.w; 



There was a tendency in several cases in the lobes to run 

 together, i.e., to be confluent ; of these I have a small series. 



NOTE- FISHES. 



Large Pike at Burton Constable, Yorks. S.E. — Seeing the record 

 of a large Pike (Esox lucius) being caught in Lincolnshire, I thought 

 I would record the capture of what I believe to be one of the heaviest Pike 

 ever caught in Yorkshire. It weighed 29 }4 lbs., and was caught on a spoon- 

 bait in October last, in the lake at Burton Constable, by Mr. Councillor 

 Cooper, of Hull, who has had it preserved. — J. R. LOWTHER, Crane Hill. 

 Beverley, 4th April 1900. 







NOTES COLEOPTERA. 



Oxypoda nigrina near Saltburn: an Addition to the Yorkshire 

 Coleoptera. --Numbers of beetles may often be found at the fool of sea- 

 banks on the coast after a land wind. In April last year I took Oxypoda 

 ytgrina Wat. at Saltburn in this situation. It is one of the smaller species, 

 and does not appear in the list of Yorkshire Staphylinidae. M. LAWSON 

 Thompson, 35, Leven Street, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, nth April moo. 



Beetles at Cadney, near Brigg. I give a short selection from a long 

 list of Coleoptera, named by Rev. A. Thornley, collected in Cadney 

 during February and March 1900: -Pierostichus oblongopunctatus (seven- 

 teen examples), Calathus piceus, Blechrus ma urns, Dacne humeralis, 

 Subcoccinella 2j.-punctata. The last was taken on the 19th of February. 

 K. Adrian Woodri fi k-Pkacock, Cadney, Hrigg, 14th April 1000. 



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