288 British Oribatidce : Notes on New and Critical Species. 
Pseudostigmatic organs prominent, slender, fusiform, curved 
outward and forward, rather long, with a fine point. 
Abdomen ellipsoid ; dorsum with four rows of simple 
long hairs above, four submarginal hairs at each side of the 
posterior half, fine and straight, radiating. 
Moss in woods ; also in sphagnum on the moors, West 
Allendale, Northumberland ; Gibside, Durham. Small forms 
of H. ctasypns are usually of the same pale colour as this, 
and the pseudostigmatic organs are more conspicuous than 
in individuals of larger size. From such examples the 
present form can only be distinguished by the longer, more 
slender, more curved pseudostigmatic organ, and especially 
by its fine needle-pointed extremity. But the dorsal hairs 
are also different, being only about half the length of those 
of dasvpus ; and the submarginal band is much more distinct. 
We have received from the Selborne Society its Handbook for 1914, 
containing particulars of the Extension Lecture List, which is well 
illustrated. 
The Annnal Report of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society for MCMXIII. 
has recently been issued. It contains an obituary notice, with portrait, 
of the late Dr. Tempest Anderson ; Notes on the Excavation of Cloister 
and Restoration of South Nave Wall, St. Mary’s Abbey, etc., by W. 
Harvey Brook ; the usual meteorological notes, list of additions to the 
library, and a well-illustrated paper on Coins : especially those relating 
to York, by George Benson. 
Volume 1, Part II. of the new series of the Transactions of the Vale of 
Derwent Naturalists' Field Club (pp. 72-169, is.) contains a lengthy account 
of the Myriapods of the Derwent Valiev, and a paper on the - Wood Lice 
of Northumberland and Durham,’ by Mr. R. S. Bagnal, ; ‘ Notes on the 
Local Mammals and Birds,’ by Mr. T. Robson, and Mr. J. E. Patterson 
writes on ‘ Nature Pictures.’ 
The Annual Report of the North Staffordshire Field Club for 1913-14, 
being Vol. XLVIII., edited by W. Wells Bladen (238 pp. 5/-), has been 
published. It includes the Presidential Address on ‘ Staffordshire Parishes 
in their Geographical Aspect,” by S. A. H. B-urne. Various notes are on 
the zoology, botany, geology, meteorology and archaeology of the district, 
with the reports of the meetings and excursions. Among the more 
interesting items are notes on the ‘ Habits of Bats in Captivity ’ ; ‘ Bird 
Notes from Stone,’ and the ‘ Breeding of the Willow Tit in Staffordshire.’ 
The Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union Transactions for 1913, which is 
presumably part of a volume as it begins with page 71, contains an account 
of the work of the Rev. E. A. W. Peacock, and his portrait is given, under 
the heading of ‘ The Presidents ’ (sic) ; Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh’s admirable 
presidential address on the 1 Migration of Birds as Observed in Lincoln- 
shire,’ follows, and there are the sectional officers’ reports, viz., ‘Botany,’ 
Rev. E. A. W. Peacock ; ‘ Entomology,’ G. W. Mason (including a note of 
the Bath White in Lincolnshire) ; ‘Coleoptera,’ W. Wallace; ‘ Conchology,’ 
W. Denison Roebuck; ’ Vertebrata, ’ Rev. F. L. Blathwayt ; ‘ Arachnida 
and Isopoda,’ J. F. Musham ; ‘ Foraminifera,’ B. H. Quine and A. Smith ; 
and ' Geology,’ by H. Preston. The Rev. E. A. W. Peacock writes on 
‘ Our Dry Soil Pimpernels,’ and the Rev. A. Thornley and W. Wallace 
give bheir seventh valuable contribution to ' Lincolnshire Coleoptera.’ 
Naturalist, 
