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FIELD NOTES. 



GEOLOGY. 



Ice- Borne Boulders of Yorkshire. — Mr. Bayford of 

 Barnsley draws attention to the omission from the Hst of Shap 

 Erratics in my summary of the work of the Yorkshire Boulder 

 Committee, of the boulder found at Adwick-on-Dearne, and now 

 in Weston Park, Barnsley. 



Curiously enough this well-known boulder appears never to 

 have been officially reported either to the British Association or. 

 the Yorkshire Committee. It is referred to in the 'Naturalist' 

 for 1S99, p. 124, and is figured in the ' Proceedings of the York- 

 shire Geol. and Pol. Society' for 1905, Vol. XV., Part III., 

 p. 418. It weighs 7^ cwt. — J. H. Howarth, Halifax. 



Bones of Reindeer at Hessle. — In re-examining the 

 collection of mammalian remains from the pre-glacial gravels 

 at Hessle, near Hull, in the Hull Museum, which I obtained 

 some time ago, I find there are the humerus, radius and ulna 

 of a reindeer (Cervus tarandus). They are from the angular 

 chalk gravel which occurs below the boulder-clay, and exhibit 

 no signs of having been waterworn. Some pieces of antler from 

 the same bed are probably of the same species, but owing to 

 their fragmentary condition, positive determination was not 

 possible. The record appears in ' Geological Rambles in East 

 Y'orkshire,' marked with a ' ?.' The bones now recorded, 

 however, place the presence of the reindeer at Hessle in pre- 

 glacial times beyond doubt. — T. Sheppard, Hull. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 

 Sphinx convolvuli at Leeds. — I have had brought to me 

 two living specimens of Sphinx convolvuli — one on August 

 29th, and the other on September 21st. Both specimens were 

 lound at rest in the Leeds City Square, probably attracted 

 by the arc lights. As the specimens were in perfect condition, 

 they are not likely to have travelled far, and may have entered 

 the city by the railway or by the electric cars from outlying 

 districts. With the second specimen I also received examples 

 of six other species of lepidoptera from the same spot in the 

 city. — E. O. Croft, Leeds, September 21st, 1908. 



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 COLEOPTERA. 

 Enicmus fungicola Thorns, at Leeds, — On August loth 

 last I was pleased to find Enicmus fungicola Thoms. in small 



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