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FIELD NOTES. 



HYMENOPTERA. 

 Mutilla europsea in Yorkshire. — I have pleasure in 

 recording at the finder's request, the third occurrence of the 

 SoUtary Ant (Mutilla europcBO) in Yorkshire. It was taken 

 by Dr. J. W. Fordham, of Sheffield, in August 1905, on the 

 moors above the Peak Alum Quarries at Robin Hood's Baj^ 

 As in the two previous cases, the specimen is a female. — Frank 

 Elgee, Middlesbrough. 



MOSSES, 



Mosses from Caudley, West Yorksliire. — During the 

 Christmas holidays, 1907, I spent a few days in the Cautley 

 district with Mr. H. Foster. Amongst the many interesting 

 mosses we saw were the following, which I think have not been 

 recorded from there previously : — Dicranella secimda Lindb., 

 Cautley Spout. This seem to be an addition to West York- 

 shire mosses. Mr. W. Ingham, who has verified this and many 

 -of the following, says it comes near to the sub-species D. curvata 

 Schp. ; Oligoirichum hercynicum Lam., Cautley Spout ; Fissi- 

 dens osmundoides Hedw., Cautley Spout ; Fissidens decipiens 

 De Not., Cautley Spout ; Grimmia conferta Funck., Cautley 

 Spout ; Barbula rubella mitt. var. ruherrima Ferg., Cautley 

 Spout ; Weber a cruda Schwseg., cfr., Cautley Spout ; Anii- 

 irichia curtipendula Brid., Cautley ; Plagiothecium pulchellum 

 B. & S., Cautley Spout; Hypnum scorpioides L., Blue Caster Fell; . 

 Hypnum giganteiim Schp. , Blue Caster Fell ;" Hypnum sarmen- 

 tosum Wahl., Blue Caster Fell. — Chris. A. Cheetham, Armley. 



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COLEOPTERA. 

 Tachinus proximus Kr. and Philonthus debills Or. in 

 Yorkshire. — Having met with Fachinus pallipes Gr. on one 

 or two occasions in the Saltburn district, I have been much 

 interested to find that another northern species of this genus 

 occurs in Yorkshire. I took two specimens of Fachinus 

 proximus Kr. from decaying fungi in a plantation just below 

 Stanghow Moor, near Saltburn, in September 1905. This is 

 an elevated locality, such as its inclusion in the Northumberland 

 catalogue by Bold indicates the species to inhabit. James 

 Hardy found it in the Cheviot district in 1871. I also took 



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