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were published in the Naturalist (Aug. 1900, pp. 253-5, May 
IgOI, pp. 159-160, and Jan. 1902, pp. 13-14). 
The Gall-Mites have been studied of late years by Rev.E.A. 
Woodruffe-Peacock and Miss S. C. Stow, their list appearing 
in the Naturalist for Aug. 1903 (pp. 305-6) and in our 
Transactions for 1907. 
Of the Myriopoda—the Centipedes and Millipedes—we 
appear only to have one single note, one by Mr. F. M. Burton, 
of Scolopendva electrica in 1851 at Lincoln. 
Coming to Insects, we have no records whatever of the 
Collembola, the Thysanura, or the Thysanoptera. 
Of the Orthoptera, apart from isolated records, we have a 
list of 10 at Alford by Mr. J. Eardley Mason (Nat., May 1896, 
Pp. 129); and one of 17 for the County by Mr. Eland Shaw (Ent. 
Mo. Mag., Ap. 1903, pp. 91-95). 
Of the Neuroptera the earliest record is of a Dragon-fly 
named after the county—Agrion lincolniense Stephens, which is 
_ placed as a synonym of Evythvomma naias by Lucas in his 
monograph. 
The Alford species, 20 in number, were enumerated by Mr. 
J. Eardley Mason (Nat., May 1896, p. 129), and seven years 
later Mr. Eland Shaw published a list of 71 species for the 
county (Ent. Mo. Mag., Ap. 1903, pp. 91-95). 
: The Order Hymenoptera has only been partially worked— 
and a great field of investigation is open for the ardent student. 
The earliest record is by John Hill in 1758 in his English edition 
of Swammerdam’s ‘ Book of Nature’ in which he speaks of the 
Willow Bee (Megachile willughbiella). He says the construction 
of the cells of the Willow Bee is very extraordinary; nor are 
these found in combs; they are frequent in the fen countries and 
he has seen thousands of them in Lincolnshire, where they make 
themselves cases of the leaves, and bury themselves in the 
_ rotten part of the wood. 
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There are various well-defined groups composing this order 
_ Hymenoptera, but of some of these we have only casual records. 
Such is the case with the Ichneumonide .and kindred ekeupe 
_ which are parasitic on other insects. 
