Various Short Notes. 



A day spent on the hills was unsuccessful. I found only 

 a Ring-Ouzel's nest in a Rowan tree — an unusual situation 

 growing on a gill side where the Buzzard used to have its eyrie. 

 All day I saw no birds but those of our own Yorkshire moors. 



And now there was nothing left but carefully to pack my 

 selection of eggs for the home bringing, which, safely accom- 

 plished, the treasures now lay in my cabinet with all data 

 appended. Here at any time, like a miser, I may gloat over 

 them and recall the pleasures of one more holiday with my dear 

 old mother Nature. 



NOTE on YORKSHIRE H YMENOPTERA . 



Cimbex sylvarum and Opheltes glaucopterus in West Yorkshire. 



— Some time ago Mr. Arthur Whitaker sent me a specimen of this fine 

 Sawfly, which he had taken in New Park Spring- Wood, near Barnsley ; 

 and I have also the species taken by myself in Honley Wood, Huddersfield. 

 I have also a fine and pretty Ichneumon {Opheltes glaucopterus) taken by 

 myself at Meltham Mills, Huddersfield.— Geo. T. Porritt, Crosland Hall, 

 near Huddersfield, 4th April [902. 



NOTE on OR TMOPTERA . 



Periplaneta australasia? at Louth. — On March 5th Mr. J. Larder 

 sent to me a Cockroach, which has been identified as Periplaneta australasice 

 by Dr. Eland Shaw, who remarks that he ' thinks this its first occurrence in 

 Lincolnshire.' Learning- from Mr. Larder that it was caught in one of the 

 greenhouses belonging to Mr. G. Moody, florist, I went there, and was 

 informed that these creatures had been breeding there for some time and 

 were doing considerable damage to many choice plants, especially a 

 mag-nificent ' Eucharis Lily.' — C. S. CARTER, 8, Bridge Street, Louth, 

 2nd April 1902. 



NOTE on LINCOLNSHIRE PLANTS. 



Lincolnshire Plant-Notes, Sapperton, Div. 15. — I was staying for 

 a few days at Sapperton, Div. 15, and saw white forms of the following: — 

 Cnicus arvensis, Carduus crispus, and Scabiosa arvensis. The first was 

 very abundant, and some specimens of the last were a lovely pink. A large 

 clump of Centaurea Scabiosa was a beautiful bright pink. It grew close to 

 others of the normal colour in a limestone quarry. In the same spot were 

 a score plants of Cnicus eriophonis, nearly four feet high. In the pastures 

 were many scores of Centaurea nigra, in flower, only two to three inches 

 high. I looked for Caucalis arvensis in vain. At Sapperton, Braceby, 

 Hanby, and Lenton, all in Div. 15, and at Aslackby, in Div. 16, I found 

 Avena pubescens very abundant in the meadows and by the road-sides. 

 I sent Mr. Peacock tw T o plants to verify— Silene cucubalus puberula Syme, 

 a variety new to me, and Carex verna, which can hardly be mistaken when 

 the membranous disc surrounding- the base of the style on the nutlet i-- 

 noted. Both are from Sapperton. I thought Mr. Peacock might like tin' 

 seeds of the latter for his type collection. I shall have several additions to 

 make to my personal lists of Divs. 13 and 15. If they never see the light in 

 ' The Naturalist ' they will be useful for the ' Flora of Lincolnshire.' S. C, 

 Stow, Court Leys, Brandon, Grantham, 25th July 1901. 



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