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to him by one of the stallholders in the Barnsley Market, 
which he thinks had been imported with bananas. The species 
has only previously been recorded from Halifax in our county. 
Arachnida. — Mr. William Falconer writes : — The work of 
investigating the Arachnida of the county has gone on steadily 
during the year, and satisfactory progress has been made. 
Members of the Committee have been present at several of the 
meetings, and lists of spiders obtained on two of these occasions 
have appeared in The Naturalist (May, pp. 207-8, and July, 
pp. 253-4). Although these do not contain any great rarity, 
they are valuable in so far as they are from districts not previously 
worked. The season has not been a good one, but three new species 
of spiders, all of them very rare, have been added to the county 
list (grand total now 317). viz., Hahnia pusilla C. L. Koch $, 
W alckcncera capito Westr. $, and IF. nodosa Camb. $, taken by 
myself in the West Riding in June. Another interesting addition, 
with previously only one British record, is the var. lantosquensis 
Sim. of Erigonc atra Bl., which I found on Spurn in May. Of the 
rarer members of our fauna the following have again occurred : — 
Collected by the Rev. R. A. Taylor, Hahnia nava Bl. (the first 
Yorkshire q), Entelecava thorellii Westr., Sintula cornigera Bl., 
Chiracanthium carnijex Fabr. ; by Mr. Sanderson, Micrommata 
virescens Clerck. ; by Mr. J. W. H. Harrison, Phaulothrix hardii 
Bl., Notioscopus sarcinatus Cb., Hypselistes jacksonii Cb. ; by 
Mr. Winter. Coryphceus distinctus Sim. ; by myself, Sintula 
cornigera BL, Gongylidiellum latchricola Cb., Maro falconerii Jacks., 
Maro minutus Cb., Diplocephalits protuberans Cb., Entelecara 
trifrons Cb., and Wideria fugax Cb. Draining operations on 
Eston Moor may result in the disappearance there of Notioscopus 
sarcinatus Cb. and Hypselistes jlorens Cb., and dock extensions 
near Hull in the loss of Erigone spinosa Cb. from Saltend 
Common. 
No new harvestmen have been seen, but Nemastoma chryso- 
rnelas Herm. has turned up in several parts of the county, while 
irnong the pseudoscorpions examples of Cherries nodosus Schr. 
(one from the North Riding) and Chthonius tetrachclatus Preyss. 
(several from the East and West Ridings) have been obtained. 
County records for mites are practically nil, but during the 
year a number of them, which were in the first instance at least 
named by Dr. George, have been collected by Mr. Winter and 
myself, while the Rev. J. E. Hull. Ninebanks, Northumberland, 
has kindly supplied me with a list of Cleveland oribatids. 
BOTANICAL SECTION. 
Mr. J . F. Robinson writes : — Some of the older plants, dear 
to the hearts of the so-called “floristic” school of botanists, 
have turned up again at the various Field Meetings. For example, 
Helleborus viridis, near Roche Abbey, and Thalictrum minus, var. 
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