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FIELD NOTES. 



FUNQI. 



Correction. — In the list of Fungi found at Horton in 

 Ribblesdale, in ' The NaturaHst/ 1907, p. 396, the record of 

 Copriniis tomentosus is an error, the species found being Coprintts 

 fimetarius var cinereiis. — Thomas Gibbs, Wirksworth, January 

 2oth, 1908. 



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ARACHNIDA. 



Obisium muscorum near Middlesbrough. — Dr. W. J. 



Fordham and mj^self took the pseudoscorpion, Obisium mus- 

 corum, Leach, under a stone on Eston Nab., near Middles- 

 brough, on January i8th, 1908. The stone was on the open 

 moor among heather, at an elevation of 800 feet. The species 

 has kindly been identified by H. Wallis Kew, Esq.— Geo B. 

 AValsh, Middlesbrough. 



Chiridium museorum Leach, at Huddersfield. — The 



■e3^eless Chiridium museorum Leach, the smallest of the British 

 pseudoscorpions, occurs in various situations : among old 

 books, in old houses, birds' nests, beneath the bark of trees, etc. 

 On February 15th, eleven specimens were obtained from the 

 under-surface of pieces of wood lying in the disused cupboards 

 and on the floor of a tradesman's cellars at iVlmondbur}/. A 

 more extended search would no doubt have produced many 

 more. This is not the first time it has been noticed in Yorkshire. 

 Mr. T. Fetch observed it in a glass of water at Thorp Garth, 

 Aldborough, in Holderness, some years ago. (Vide ' Naturalist,' 

 1903, p. 460.) 



Diplocephalus beckii Cb. at Huddersfield. — In the 



same cellars both sexes of an uncommon spider, Diplocephalus 

 beckii Cb., were met with. It also occurs in other cellars to 

 which I have had access, both at Almondbury and Slaithwaite. 

 Owing to its predilection for such dark retreats and its small 

 size, it may be easily overlooked, and it will probabty prove to 

 be more plentiful in Britain than its present records would 

 indicate. — Wm. Falconer, Slaithwaite, 19th Fel^-uary, 1908. 



Naturalist, 



