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THE RIPON CITY MUSEUM. 
It is pleasant to record that during the present year the people 
of Ripon have obtained their permanent museum, through the 
generosity of Miss Darnbrough, who has not only presented to 
the city the Thorp Prebend House, an early seventeenth century 
building, but a substantial gift in cash. The collections 
formerly in the possession of Ripon Scientific Society, which 
have been stored for some time, are now on exhibition, and an 
effort is being made to give the collections a distinctly local 
character. 
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BIRDS. 
Manx Shearwater at Halifax. — A Manx Shearwater was 
picked up at Heptonstall. near Hebden Bridge, about September 
20th, shortly after some strong westerly winds had been blowing, 
and was presented to the Halifax Museum. I believe this is 
the first record for the Parish of Halifax. — W. R. Verity, 
Halifax. 
FISHES. 
Large Yorkshire Fresh-Water Fish. — Common Trout . — 
A specimen weighing 7 lbs. 5 ozs, measuring 25 1 - inches long 
and 15 inches in girth was captured below the railway bridge 
at Malton on May 25th. Grayling. — One weighing 2J lbs. and 
another 3 lbs. 4 ozs. were caught in the Derwent at Ganton, 
on March 1st.— R. Fortune. 
DIPTERA. 
Adetoxenus formosus Leow. in Yorkshire — an Addition 
to the County List of Diptera.- — On the 29th July last I 
was collecting Diptera in a desultory fashion in a garden at 
Burley-inAVharfedale, when my attention was drawn to a 
tiny species flying actively about among some bushes of 
‘ flowering currant ’ and lilac. For its size it was unusually 
conspicuous owing to the bright yellow colour of its scutellum, 
which almost seemed to sparkle as the little creature darted 
about. Upon capturing a couple of specimens, I found them 
to be the males of Acletoxenus formosus, Loew, a rare species 
which has only hitherto been recorded from two localities in 
Britain, viz., Cambridge and Lyndhurst (in the New Forest). 
Its capture, therefore, in Yorkshire this summer, forms an 
interesting addition to our county list. The species has been 
well described by Collin in the Entomologist' s Monthly Magazine 
for 1902 (pp. 1-3), where an excellent coloured figure will be 
found. — Percy H. Grimshaw, Royal Scottish Museum, 
Edinburgh. 
1914 Nov. 1. 
