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Scunthorpe. Melton Mowbray lies south, 7 degrees west, of 

 Scunthorpe, at a distance of 57^- miles, and the Keuper marls 

 are struck at practically the same level, viz., 25 O.D. The 

 position of the Lincoln boring- is gf miles east of this line of 

 strike, thus giving the dip of the Keuper beds as 70 feet per 

 mile east, 7 degrees south. 



FIELD NOTES. 



Pollard Willow Fauna. — In Mr. Peacock's fauna of the 

 Pollard Willow (Nat., 1903, p. 182) I do not find any mention of 

 the Long-eared Bat (yP. auritus). This species used to be very 

 frequent in old willow trees on the banks of the rivers Wiske 

 and Swale, and in my bird-nesting days I have often found more 

 than one suspended in hollow trunks, or even crouching in holes 

 formed by the decay of a branch. The Common Bat used to fly 

 over these rivers also, but I presume it rested under the bridges, 

 as we never found it in the trees with the Long-eared Bat. — 

 J. A. Wheldon. 



COLEOPTERA, 



Prionus coriarius L. in Cheshire. — This fine Longicorn 

 is rare in Cheshire. In Dunham Park (a locality cited by Canon 

 Fowler, 'The Coleoptera of the British Islands,' Vol. IV., 

 p. 219) I took an example more than twenty years ago, and on 

 28th July this year I picked up a female which was struggling 

 on its back in a lane near Chelford. — Chas. Oldham, Knutsford, 

 25th August 1904. 



Cymindis vapota riorum on Bardon Moor. — The range of 

 this species is evidently more extensive than we have supposed. 

 During Whit-week (1904) I found it, not uncommonly, on 

 Bardon Moor, in Wharfedale, whilst a week later my friend, 

 Mr. Walter Mann, in my presence found one specimen on 

 Rombalds Moor, w^here I have in years gone by spent many 

 a half-day in searching for it. — J. W. Carter, Bradford. 



Blethisa multipunctata near Carlisle. — I took a specimen 

 of Blethisa inultipunctata L. about seven miles from Carlisle on 

 the banks of the river Irthing on 7th May 1901. I have not had 

 the opportunity to search for it again. The only previous 

 records are in Stephen's 'Illustrations,' Vol. V., p. 390, 



1904 October i. 



