170 Address to the Lincolnshive Naturalists’ Union. 
Mr. George published a list of the Acuieate Hymenoptera of 
Kirton-in-Lindsey in Ap. 1888 (Nat., p. 107), with a few 
additions in June 1906 (Nat., p. 199). 
The Rev. A. Thornley catalogued the Sawflies to the number 
of 50 in June 1899 (Nat., pp. 167-170), and the Rev. E. A. 
Woodruffe-Peacock and Miss S. C. Stow did the same for the 
gall-flies in May 1903 (Nat., pp. 185-6) and in our Transactions 
for 1907 and Igog. 
The Coleoptera or Beetles have been enumerated by the 
Rev. A. Thornley and Dr. Wallace in our own Transactions, 
and three parts of their excellent list have already appeared 
(Trans. 1907-1908-1909), gathering up the threads of our 
knowledge to date. . 
The county has had the benefit of the residence of the 
author of the standard work on British Coleoptera, the Rev. 
Canon W. W. Fowler, but the only local paper he has 
published was one for Mablethorpe in 1881; but the value 
of his example and his work has been very considerable, 
and the same remark applies to the Rev. Alfred Thornley, whose 
energy during the time of his residence on our immediate 
boundary was a perpetual stimulus to work on the part of 
others. 
The first considerable list for Lincolnshire was by the 
famous T. Vernon Wollaston, who collected a number of species 
in 1843 with Lincoln and Spridlington as his centres of 
investigation. 
The order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths) has, of 
course, had more votaries than any other group of insects, and 
yet the papers of any magnitude are few, and it is reserved for 
Mr. Guy W. Mason to be the author of the first county list—the 
one which is appearing in our Transactions, of which four parts 
have already come out (1906-1g07-1908-1909). 
Of local lists the neighbourhood of Lincoln city has been 
treated by Mr. W. D. Carr (Ent., Aug, 1894, pp. 232-237), the 
Butterflies of Scotter by Mr. Thomas Fyles (1859), the Louth 
Butterflies by Mr. R. W. Goulding and Mr.H. Wallis Kew (1885), 
Skegness by Mr, G. T. Porritt (1879), Wyberton parish by Mr. 
