AUGUST 1900. 



(Published 1st August 1900.) 



No. 523. 



(No. 301 of current series.) 



A ^ 

 .MONTHLY JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



WM. DENISON ROEBUCK, F.L.S. 



Contents: — 



In Defence of James Bolton, the Fungologist— F. Arnold Lees. M.R.C.S. 



The Volteface of Fiora : a Rejoinder—/ 7 . Arnold Lees, M.R.C.S 



Yorkshire Bryological Committee : Report for 1899— /./. Marshall 



A List of Flowering Plants, etc., noted at Woodhall Spa— Miss S. C. Stow 



Naturalists at Lincoln —Rev. E. A. Wood ruffe- Peacock, L.Th., F.L.S. , F.G.S. 



Lincolnshire Water Mites— C. F. George, M.R.C.S., etc 



Notes: Lepidoptera: — Limenitis sihilla at Lang-ton, Horncastle — Rev. /. Conway 

 Walter. M.A.,227; Red Admirals and Death's Head Moth at West Ayton— 

 Rev. W. C. Hey, M.A., 227; Lime-Hawkmoth at Cottingham— /. R. Lozvther, 

 227 ; Argynnis euphrosyne near Kendal — F. A. Lees, M.R.C.S., 227 ; Humming- 

 near Milnthorpe, Westmorland — George. Stabler, 236 



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22s - 226 



22Q - 2j6 

 237-239 



247.252 

 253 - 255 



Notes 



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bird Hawkmoth near Milnthorpe, Westmorland — George Stabler, 256; De- 

 abdominated Insects — Max Peacock and Geo. T. Porritt, F.L.S., F.F.S., 256. 

 Fishes :— Unusual Coloration of Flounder—/. R. Lowiher, 227; Eel-Skins in 

 Lincolnshire Folk-Medicine — Max Peacock, 227; Sturgeon in the Trent at 

 Althorpe— Max Peacock, 227. 



Ornithology: — Merlin Shot near Leeds — Thos. Raine, 22S; Curious Nesting- 

 places near Brigg — Max Peacock, 228; Stone Curlew in South Durham^/. W. 

 Faivcett, 240 ; Pied Bunting and Sparrow near Horncastle — Rev. J. Conivay 

 Walter, M.A., 240 : Ouails Nesting at Bottesford — Max Peacock, 240 ; Strange 

 Place for a Stock-Dove s Nest—//. H. Cbrbett, M.R.C.S., 240; Untidy Nest cf 

 Song-Thrush— John P. Thomasson, 240 ; The Nesting Gull of Foulshaw Moss — 

 F. A. Lees, M.R.C.S., 240; 'Curious Site for a Blackbird's Nest' — Geo. T. 

 Porritt, F.L.S., F.E.S., 240. 

 Notes: Flowering Plants :— Draba muralis near Huddersfield— T. W. Woodhead. 



F.L.S., 236 ; Spergularia rubra near Sheffield — A. E. Bradley, 246 ; Chelidonium 

 majus at 750 feet in Upper Wharfedale — Rev. W. A. Shuffrey, M.A., 246; 

 Caraway-seed Kex in West Lancaster — F. Arnold Lees, .M.R.C.S., 246. 



Hymenoptera :— Hymenoptera taken at Bottesford, Lincolnshire — Max 

 Peacock, 219; Lincolnshire Tenthredinidae — Rev. Alfred Thornley, M.A.. 

 F.L.S., F.E.S., 239. 



Amphibia :— Natterjack Toad at Seascale— ^. L. Petty, 245. 

 Fungi : — Something Like a Mushroom — Max Peacock, 245. 

 Mammalia :— Bat Flying by Day—/- Eardley Mason, 246. 

 Diptera : — Diptera taken at Bottesford, Lincolnshire— Max Peacock, 246. 

 Coleoptera : — Rhagium bifasciatum at Lincoln—/. Eardley Mason, 246. 

 Trichoptera : — Leptocerus dissimilis near Lincoln—/. Eardley Mason, 352. 

 Land and Freshwater Mollusca :— Pisidium aranicum, etc., at Saltfleetby, 

 Lincolnshire—//. Wallis A'eiv, F.Z.S., 252. 



Neuroptera :— Dragonfly new to Yorkshire at Askham Bog— Geo. T. Porritt, 

 F.L.S., F.E.S., 256. 

 Illustration :— Middle Lias Section. Lincoln. 249. Book Notice, 256. 



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