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I sent to Mr. Saunders, who thinks it is Strachia pictu, and that 
it was probably introduced from the Canaries in a bunch of 
bananas. I may mention it was alive and quite active when it 
came into my possession. We have a red and black species of 
Strachia with similar markings, but it is much smaller than S. picta. 
It is very rare, and I have never met with it. — H. .T. Thouless. 
Therapha hyoscyami. — I took an example of this fine bug on 
College Road, Norwich, on October 30th. It is already in the 
Norfolk list on the authority of Paget. Its occurrence here is 
very interesting, as, like many of its allies, it is a southern form, 
and has not been taken nearer Norfolk than Devonshire and the 
Isle of Wight. — IT. J. Thouless. 
Great Flights of Wood-Pigeons. — The flights of Wood- 
Pigeons in December exceeded anything 1 ever saw in Norfolk. 
At Taverham, Mr. Penn shot 129 in about three hours, on 
30th December, and at Weston and Witchingham bags of about 
90 were made ; on the other hand, in the large woods near 
Cromer I am told there were very few. All I saw were going 
north-west. — J. H. Gurney. 
Suffolk Mosses. — As 1 find there is a mistake in my last year’s 
list I desire to correct it. 
Weber a elongata , Dicks., p. 235, must be omitted. 1 had over- 
looked a letter from the Rev. James Ferguson, in which he says he 
had come to the conclusion that the specimens are a form of 
Bryum pseudo-triquetrum . , Hedw. 
Mr. W. E. Nicholson of Lewes has examined Mr. Skepper’s 
herbarium, and tells me that the specimens which were marked by 
Mr. Ferguson as Philonotis calcarea , B. and S., he should call 
P. fontana, L. var. falcata. It is, doubtless, the same as the 
falcate-leaved form sent by Mr. Holmes from Edgefield Heath. 
Norfolk. — E. N. Bloomfield. 
Norfolk Mosses. — Mr. Dixon asks me to mention the following 
corrections to his paper : — 
p. 219. Tortida at oides, De Not. For “Norfolk specimens in 
Mr. Skepper’s herbarium,’’ read “Norfolk records in 0. B. G. under 
the name of T. rigida.” 
