On the Fringe of the Cleveland Hills. 



the owner discouraged the destruction of these birds, in addition 

 to protecting the Badger. 



CoLEOPTERA. — Mr. M. L. Thompson writes that the follow- 

 ing beetles were met with on the route from the plantations 

 along the face of the escarpment near Thimbleby Lodge, 

 across the moors to Nether Sutton on Saturday : — 



Nebvia gyllenhallii Sch. 

 Bradycellus cognatus Gyll. 

 Pterostichus vitveus Dej. 

 Calathiis flavipes Fourc. 

 Calathiis melanocephalus L. 

 Olisthopus rotundatus Payk. 

 Tvechiis niinutus F. 

 Trechus secalis Payk. 

 Oxytelus rugosus F. 

 A nthophagus testaceiis Gr. 

 Adalia obliterata L. 

 Brachypterus nvticce F. 



Cercus rufilabris Lat, 

 Epuvcsa cBstiva L. 

 Meligethes ceneus F, 

 Micrambe vini Panz. 

 Cyphon coavctatus Payk. 

 Malthodes marginatus Lat. 

 Crepidodera transversa Marsh. 

 Anaspis maculata Fourc. 

 Apion humile Germ. 

 Strophosomus covyli F. 

 Phyllobius argentatus L. 

 Ceuthorrhynchus ericcB Gyll. 



Mosses and Hepatics. — Mr. W. Ingham, B.A. writes : — ^ 

 The negative results of this excursion with these plants are of 

 equal interest with the positive results. A marked feature of 

 the district traversed is the absence of mosses from the stone 

 walls and tree trunks, forming such a contrast with the Bowes 

 District in a former excursion. 



It is strange, too, that such widely distributed and common 

 mosses as Camptothecium sericeum, Brachythecium rutabulum 

 and Hypnum cupressiforme were not found by any of the party, 

 although one tuft of the C. sericeum was growing on the upper 

 part of a wall forming part of the ruins of Mount Grace Priory. 



Arncliffe Wood was densely packed with a vigorous growth 

 of the flowering plants, but by the side of a wide ditch the moss 

 Tetraphis pellucida and the Hepatic, Lophocolea heterophylla 

 were growing associated. 



It will be seen that the most interesting plants found were 

 the Sphagna or Bog Mosses, which grow in a considerable 

 number of varieties and species. 



Saturday, ist August. — On the track from Thimbleby Lodge 

 through the wood to the ascent of Black Hambleton was growing 

 a large patch of a vivid green moss called Pleuridium axillare, 

 crowded with fruit. 



The Hepatic, Scapania undulata was growing at a small 

 spring. 



The top of Black Hambleton was very dry, and unsuited 

 to the growth of mosses, the only moss seen here being the 



1908 November i. 



