254 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
28th last, may be worth placing on record. The whole of the 
Lincolnshire coast is of singularly uniform character, and by no- 
means inviting to an entomologist, being either mudflats or 
sandhills throughout its entire course. Sandhills prevail at 
Skeeness. Inland it is still more dreary, there being hardly 
anything but bare meadows, with few trees, and the hedges are 
stunted and dry. Our collecting was confined to the sandhills. 
Perhaps the most interesting species taken was Hupithecia 
innotata, of which I boxed two specimens off marivam grass, &e. 
The imago is very hike 7. fraxinata in shape and markings, but is 
bigger, though the larva, judging from a figure which Mr. Crewe 
has very kindly let me see (drawn from a Continental specimen), 
is evidently very different. Nonagria Klymi was very abundant ; 
this species, formerly so rare in collections, evidently occurs all 
along the coast from Yorkshire, at Spurn, right away to Norfolk. 
At first we were rather at a loss to account for the occurrence in 
plenty of several insects usually considered marsh or fen species ; 
such as Nudaria senex, which abounded on the sandhills; and 
Herminia cribralis also was common enough. We afterwards 
found that however hot and dry the day was, the sandhills, and 
particularly the hollows, were excessively damp in the evening ; 
indeed we were soaked through every night we went out, even in 
the finest weather. ‘This, with the presence of several marsh 
plants, of course was sufficient to account for the insects. At 
dusk we generally sugared the posts, and I never saw Noctue 
come more freely; but for the quantity, never, I think, did I see 
so common alot. ‘The species taken in various ways, omitting 
those already mentioned, and those of almost universal distri- 
bution, were Charocampa elpenor, Lithosia complanula, Henuthea 
thymiaria, Acidalia scutulata, A. interjectaria and A. wnitaria, 
Timandra amataria, Hupithecia centaureata, Melanthia ocellata, 
Pelurga comitata, Leucania comma, Axylia putris, Xylophasia 
sublustris, Mamestra abjecta, M. anceps, and M. albicolon, Miana 
literosa, M. fasciuncula, and M. arcuosa, Caradrina Morpheus and 
C. blanda, Noctua plecta, N. C-nigrum, and N. rubi, Aplecta 
occulta (one fine female specimen), Hadena pisi, Scoparia lineolalis, 
Crambus perlellus and C. Warringtonellus, Ancrastia lotella, Homeo- 
soma mmbella, and Pterophorus pterodactylus: this last was flying 
in hundreds, and we had frequently half a dozen in the net at 
once..—GrorGE T’. Porrirr; Highroyd House, Huddersfield, 
September 10, 1879. 
