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Field Notes. 



confirm old records ; when the species is of rare occurrence, they 

 are quite as vahiable as new discoveries. 



Mr. Malone, of Bradford, was also very active in searching 

 out fungi at Clapham, he himself collecting no fewer than be- 

 tween seventy and eighty species, including an exceedingly fine 

 example of Gomphidiiis viscidus ; also Collyhia plexipes ; Hy- 

 pomyces torminosus, and the reddish variety of Hydnum 

 repandum — var. mfescens. — C. Crossland, Halifax, Sep- 

 tember 15th, 1908. 



New Yorkshire Agarics. — A collection of Fungi gathered 

 in Firby Wood, Kirkham Abbey, by the York and District 

 Field Naturalists' Society, w^as sent to me September 14th, by 

 Mr. R. Fowler Jones. Among them were two species new to 

 the county — Psilocybe agvaria and Russula serotina. The latter 

 is worthy of notice as being one of the least of the British 

 Russulce. — C. Crossland, Hahfax. 



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 COLEOPTERA. 



Corymbites castaneus L. and Scymnus nigrinus Kug. 

 in Yorkshire. — I am pleased to be able to record the recent 

 occurrence of Corymbites castaneus L. in Yorkshire. I found a 

 single specimen of this very rare beetle on a sallow bush by the 

 side of the moorland stream above Ravensgill, Pateley Bridge, 

 on June 8th. 



On the occasion of the meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union, on August ist, I took the local Scymnus nigrinus 

 Kug., not far from Osmotherley. This species is found on the 

 lower branches of pines, and, like the preceding insect, does not 

 appear to have been previously met with in Yorkshire. 



I am indebted to Mr. E. A. Newbery, of London, for kindly 

 identifying these additions to our county fauna. — M. Lawson, 

 Thompson, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, September 1908. 



MOLLUSCA. 



Helix aspersa var. exalbida — a correction. — In the 



report on the natural history of Hornsea, which appeared in the 

 ' Naturalist' for August (p. 307), the specimen of Helix aspersa 

 var. exalbida should have been recorded as from a wall near the 

 mere. The specimen was given to me by Mr. J. W. Boult, who 

 has found this variety in the same locality for several years. — 

 F. H. Woods, Bainton Rectory. 



Naturalist, 



