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Various Short Notes. 



Bold Venture. 825 O.D. 

 Porphyrite and volcanic ash. 



Carlton Bank. On watershed, 925-950 O.D. 



Pebbles of carboniferous grit, porphyrite, and volcanic ash. 



Whitby. On beach. 



Elaeolite syenite, exactly resembling that of Kvelle, near 

 Larvik. 



Whitby. In upper boulder clay. 



Coarse dolerite, resembling closely that of Crawford-John. 



NOTES— PALEONTOLOGY. 



Mammoth's Tooth at Staithes.— With reference to Mr. H. B. Muff's 

 note in the October ' Naturalist,' I was at Staithes a short time ag-o, and 

 was shown a fairly complete specimen of a tooth of a Mammoth {Elephas 

 primigenhis). It was in the possession of a fossil collector who has a small 

 shop on the left-hand side of the road from the station to the village, and 

 who had found it on the beach, it having evidently dropped out of the 

 boulder clay which caps the cliffs on parts of the neighbouring coast. This 

 is worthy of note, as Staithes is some miles north of Robin Hood's Bay. — 

 E. Hawkesworth, Hunslet, Leeds, 6th November 1900. 



Kimeridge Clay Fossils : Market Rasen. —While paying a visit to 

 Market Rasen on the 7th September I inspected the Brick and Tile Com- 

 pany's pits on the Willingham road, and collected the following fossils, 

 which have been named at the British Museum by the kindness of Mr. R. 

 Bullen Newton, F.G.S. :— 



Ammonites biflex Sow. Tliracia depressa Sow. 



Nuculana lineata Blake. Ammonites mutabilis Sow. 



Astarte supercorallina D'Orb. Corbula carinata Brev. 



Ammonites triplicatus Sow. 

 — Max Peacock, Cadney, Brigg, 1st October 1900. 



NOTES — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Hummingbird Hawkmoth at Wilmington, Northwich. — I noticed 

 in my garden at the end of August, a very fine specimen of the Humming- 

 bird Moth {Macroglossa stellatarum), and my wife and I watched it for over 

 half-an-hour. — B. R. Lucas, 3, Dyer Terrace, Winnington, Northwich, 

 2nd November 1900. 



Church-Bell in Furness as Hibernaculum of Van ess id Butter- 

 flies. — Whilst recently investigating an ancient bell at Colton Church, 

 Furness, North Lancashire (Lat. 54 0 16'), I discovered inside the bell, at the 

 haunch or shoulder, one specimen of Vanessa io and two of V. urticce. As 

 this seems to me a very quaint hibernating place for the Peacock and Small 

 Tortoise-shell Butterflies, I thought the note might interest our readers. — 

 Harper Gaythorpe, Prospect Road, Barrow-in-Furness, 21st Nov. 1900. 



Acheront'm atropos in East Cheshire. —Since my note on Hawk- 

 moths in East Cheshire (ante, p. 336) was written I have seen two more 

 larvse of the Death's Head. These were taken at the Hough, Alderley 

 Edge, in the second week of October. Others were found about the same 

 time by men working in the potato fields, but were killed, in the belief that 

 they were ' young snakes ' ! 



While Writing, I may point out the obvious misprint of ' morning ' for 

 'evening' on the last line of my previous note. — Chas. Oldham, Alderley 



Edge, 5th November 1900. 



Naturalist, 



