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Field Notes. 
series of Epunda lutulenta from his garden at Alvanley, and 
said it had been abundant there this autumn ; also two fine 
varieties of Asphalia flavicornis and a few Pyrameis car dm 
from Delamere. Mr. S. P. Doudney exhibited Lycaena 
minima, Hyria muricata, and Strenia clathrata from Wither - 
slack ; Erebia epiphron, Coremia munitata, Larentia caesiata, 
and Venusia cambricaria from Cumberland ; also a fine under- 
side aberration of Lycaena aegon with elongated spots cap- 
tured at Delamere. Mr. S. Gordon Smith sent a fine drawer of 
Smerinthus tiliae and a large number of varieties of other 
species - captured or bred this season in various localities ; 
prominent among the latter was a specimen of Triphaena 
pronuba with hind -wings nearly white, bred from a wild pupa 
dug at Tarvin, near Chester ; an aberration of Vanessa urticae 
with nearly black hind-wings captured at Parc Lywydiarth, 
•N. Wales, Triphaena fimbria with crescent mark in hind- 
wings, bred from Delamere ; two vars. of N emeophila russula 
also with hind-wings black nearly all over, taken in the 
New Forest ; Zygaena trifolii and confluent forms, Boarmia 
roboraria, Phorodesma pustulata, Pterostoma palpina and 
Leucania turca, all from the New Forest ; a fine series of 
Cidaria truncata from various localities comprising vars. 
centumnotata , commanotata, perfuscata, etc., was much ad- 
mired, and a long series of Boarmia repandata which contained 
several examples of the Penmsenmawr melanic form charac- 
terised by whitish submarginal blotches on the black ground. 
Mr. Chas. P. Rimmer had a box of micro-lepidoptera taken 
this year chiefly round Liverpool, also his fine series of 
Hibernia defoliaria from Delamere. Mr. A. E. Hughes 
exhibited from Witherslack a long series of Carsia paludata , 
Lycaena aegon and Coenonympha typhon, and from Cartmel 
Argynnis euphrosyne. Plusia moneta is now well established 
in Cheshire, and there was a long bred series from Carrington 
exhibited by Mr. R. Tait. Mr. J. B. Garner-Richards and 
Mr. H. B. Prince also exhibited, and Mr. J. W. Griffin had 
a nice row of Trichiura crataegi. — Wm. Mansbridge. 
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GEOLOGY. 
Mammoth Tooth from Auburn, E. Yorks. — Mr. 
William Audas, of Bridlington, has given to the Hull Museum 
a mammoth tooth which he has recently picked up on the 
beach at Auburn, near Bridlington, where it had apparently 
recently fallen from the cliffs. The specimen is weathered, 
and consists of twelve ‘ plates.’ It is six and a half inches- 
in length, two inches wide, four inches deep, and weighs 
twenty-four ounces. — T.S. 
Naturalist 
