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other on the east side of the twelve feet elevation — and if so, 

 they may very likety have met again, about a mile away on the 

 south, near Warren Wood, where the land is of a sandy nature, 

 and where I have, on occasions, seen the hedgerows nearly 

 buried with blown sand. The higher land in the midst would 

 thus stand out as an island, possibly drowned at times, when 

 great floods prevailed. 



Another confirming proof of the existence of the old Trent 

 bed, connected with the formation of its valley, has lately come 

 to my knowledge. I had often thought it probable that some 

 relics of river-action might be met with on the side of the escarp- 

 ment at Gainsborough, in the shape of water-worn blocks 

 and fragments of the hard sandstone layers, which occur in this 

 region of the Keuper — though, from the steepness of the slope 

 and the nature of the rock, such traces could only be few — and 

 I have had, recently, the good fortune to meet with some of 

 them. The town cemetery lies at the top of the escarpment, 

 and, in digging a grave lately, some pieces of the sandstone, 

 broken up and rounded, evidently by w^ater action, have been 

 thrown out. 



ANCHOMENUS VERSUTUS GYLL, A BEETLE NEW 

 TO THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



J. W. CARTER, 

 Bradford. 



On July 8th, 1909, during a ramble about Ryehill reservoir, near 

 Wakefield, in company with Mr. Bayford, of Barnsley, I had the 

 pleasure of taking a single specimen of Anchomenus versiitus 

 Gyll — a species evidently new to the north of England. At 

 first I regarded it as a very dark form of the common A . pariim- 

 punctatus F., but on a critical examination, I came to the 

 conclusion that it was A. versutus, and in this Mr. W. Holland, 

 of the University Museum, Oxford, who kindly examined the 

 specimen, agrees; and writes, ' A. versutus certainly, and a nice 

 one at that.' 



We notice some Lancashire s^eologists have been ' working the Lias 

 Chalk.' 



In a recent Lancashire anghng match ' all fish may be weighed in but 

 Jacksharps and Horse Mussels.' 



Mr. C. Crossland, F.L.S., has just issued, for private circulation, a second 

 reprint of his ' Fungus Flora of the Parish of Halifax,' in which the addi- 

 tional records since 1894 have been included. 



1909 Oct. I. 



