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pairs, in the axils of the reeds. I have not yet had the oppor- 

 tunity of observing their habits in sunhght. The ditch referred 

 to is about half-a-mile long. The Donacia was found to occur 

 only in a portion about twenty yards long, and neither sweeping 

 nor searching produced a specimen elsewhere in the ditch. 

 This portion, unfortunately, is close to the new dock which is 

 being constructed near Marfleet, and is in imminent danger of 

 being covered with nine or ten feet of clay, a fate which has 

 already befallen a good length of the same ditch. I took the 

 precaution of taking about a hundred specimens out of the 

 danger quarter to a suitable situation further up the river, in the 

 hope that they will establish themselves on the Phragmites 

 there. The fact that this ditch has been swept and examined 

 in different portions during past years with no result, shows the 

 necessity for careful and extensive search, especially for species, 

 which like the present instance, are limited in the times of their 

 appearance, and extremely local. The localities for hraccata 

 given in Fowler's ' Coleoptera of the British Isles,' all occur 

 in the south of England. 







Transactions of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club. 



Vol. IV., part I. A. Brown & Sons, 2/- 



The contents of this recently published part are of a very varied 

 ■character, some of them almost novel in a local scientific publication, and 

 a,ll of them going to form a collection of permanently valuable material 

 for the student of natural history and anthropology. The first item is a 

 capital article on the Roman, Angle, and Dane in East Yorkshire, by Mr. 

 Sheppard. It is a sequel to former articles on ' The Making of East York- 

 shire ' and ' Pre-historic Man in East Yorkshire ' by the same author, 

 ■which have appeared in previous issues of the Transactions. These articles 

 ■embody an amount of compressed information previously inaccessible in 

 a collected form, and provide a synopsis of the physical and social history 

 of East Yorkshire from the earliest times to the Conquest. This is an 

 admirable article, and we trust Mr. Sheppard will continue the series, at 

 least, until the close of the Tudor period. Mr. Sheppard also contributes 

 a tasteful 'in memoriam ' notice of the late J. R. Boyle, illustrated by a 

 portrait, and supplemented by a sonnet from the Hull poet, Mr. E. Lam- 

 plough. There is a short note on the occurrence of perch in the river Hull, 

 the value of which— the note, not the river — is in inverse ratio to its size. 

 We hope to see in some future part an attempt made to account for the 

 remarkable fact which Mr. Foster has placed on record. It is a pleasant 

 surprise to find in this part a list of the Collembola and Thysanura occurring 

 in the Hull district, and a list of East Yorkshire Arachnida. The club is 

 to be congratulated on the inclusion amongst its members of two students 

 of these little-known and less-studied groups. ';Finally, to add to the variety 

 and provide the lighter side, there is a reproduction of the menu card of 

 the club's first annual dinner. This is a piece of work well worthy of 

 preservation. The caricature of the President as a prehistoric man is 

 most amusing, and so also is the table of strata which, we doubt not, was 

 investigated with gusto by non-geologists equally with geologists. No 

 better proof of the vitality of the club could be furnished than this record 

 ■of its work, now presented to the scientific world, — E. G. B. 



Naturalist, 



