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the family, this might account for the improved growth of grass. 

 Whether their larvre can take a part in the destruction, or are 

 only manure feeders, I do not know ; but if on the stock-pastured 

 ground an_v appreciable amount of the Scarabseid beetles exercised 

 their talents for rolling up their eggs in balls of dung, digging 

 little holes, and then burying the egg-containing enrichment, 

 this digging and manuring would be likely to help to a good 

 succeeding growth in many agricultural ways, too long to enter 

 on here. 



As the Scarabaeid specimens sent me were apparently not 

 noticed as differing from the others in the samples forwarded, 

 this may also have been the case on the open area, and the 

 observations of beetles being found at certain seasons " travelling 

 along the cattle-tracks in hundreds," point towards some special 

 attraction, such as might be found by dung-rolling beetles, as 

 these so-called "tracks" are the paths made by the cattle, 

 horses, &c., in their passage to and from the wells or drinking 

 places. 



Such a peculiar and wide-spread coleopterous attack on 

 pasturage appears worth recording entomologically, especially 

 in the hope that those versed in the minutife of extra-British 

 Lamellicorn attack may throw some light on the details ; but, 

 failing this, the supply of specimens, and the further notes of 

 observation which I understand I am, if possible, to be favoured 

 with, may prove of a good deal of interest. 



Torrington House, St. Albans, June 30th, 1894, 



THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF LINCOLNSHIRE. 

 By W. D. Care. 



The following list of Macro-Lepidoptera (exclusive of the 

 Geometra;) has been compiled during the last three seasons, and 

 includes only those species I myself have taken or in a few 

 instances seen in the cabinet of a friend. 



The localities chiefly worked were Hartsholme, Skelling- 

 thorpe, and Newball Woods ; the former wood is two miles south 

 of Lincoln, the geological formation being drift gravels resting 

 on middle lias clay, the trees chiefly Scotch fir, birch, oak, and 

 alder, with a good deal of larch, Austrian pine, heather, and in 

 places sallow. Skellingthorpe Wood is six miles west of Lincoln, 

 on the lower lias clay ; trees principally oak, birch, and elm. 

 Newball Wood is "eight miles north of Lincoln, on the Oxford 

 clay ; trees mainly oak and ash, with hazel undergrowth. In 

 these two latter woods the stift' clays on which they are situate 

 form a heavv, cold, and wet soil ; these conditions, however, 



