Addvess to the Lincolnshive Naturalists’ Union. 171 
J. C. Lane-Claypon (Nat., Dec. 1897, pp. 361-366), and 
Theddlethorpe St. Helens by Mr. A. E. Gibbs (1995). 
Of course numerous notes have been published by many 
collectors, and the establishment of the Entomologist’s Weekly 
Intelligencer in 1856 or so was the means of bringing out many 
records that would otherwise have been iost to us. 
Among the prominent workers and collectors have been the 
Rev. R. P, Alington at Swinhope, Mr. W. Waldo Cooper at 
West Rasen, Mr. E. Tearle at Gainsborough, Mr. Thos. Fyles _ 
at Scotter, all about 1856 to 1859, Mr. V. T. Crow at Louth 
in the ‘ eighties,’ the Rev. G. H. Raynor at Panton, Mr. J. F. 
Musham at Lincoln, Mr. A. Reynolds at Owston Ferry 
and Mr. W. Lewington at Market Rasen, all about 1895 
or so. 
The record of Lepidoptera in this county goes back as far 
as John Ray, a contemporary and friend of Lister, who recorded 
Melitea cinxia, by which he doubtless meant M. artemis, the 
Greasy Fritillary. 
The Diptera or two-winged flies have been the subject 
of an excellent List by Mr. Percy H. Grimshaw, based 
upon the Rev. A. Thornley’s material, published in the 
Naturalist (May 1898, pp. 157-170, and Nov. 1899, pp. 341-8), 
in which about 255 species were enumerated. This was followed 
up by a list of Gall-Gnats which Mr. Peacock and Miss Stow 
contributed in 1907 and 1909 to our Transactions. 
The Hemiptera or Bugs is an order which has in this 
county had the advantage of being collected and studied by a 
specialist. Mr. J. Eardley Mason, of Alford, devoted himself to 
this order, or rather to the sub-order Hemiptera Heteroptera, ~ 
and published Lists in 1888, 1889, 1895, and 1898 (all in the 
Naturalist), the total number of species recorded by him 
amounting to 166. A few Homoptera have also been recorded 
by him, and later, in our Transactions for 1907 Miss Stow 
recorded thirteen Aphides causing galls on plants, and three 
more in the Transactions for 1909. 
As to Mollusca, the Land and Freshwater Species have 
been so fully dealt with that it is unnecessary to say ahy- 
thing now. 
