PIELD .MEETINGS,.. 19s: 
The Union held its Sixty-eighth Field Meeting at 
FRESHNEY BOG, near Grimsby, on May 26th. A very 
representative number of Members attended and were augmented 
by members of the Grimsby Naturalists’ Society. A fine day 
favoured the party assembled and they at once drove from 
Grimsby Station to that area so well beloved by the late John 
Cordeaux. 
Mr. G. W. Mason reports:—The weather was entirely 
favourable for insects, but they were backward and rather scarce. 
Among the Macro-Lepidoptera nothing of importance occurred 
except one specimen of Eupithecia pygmaeata, which was the best 
catch of the day. It is a very local species, the best time to take 
it being in the late afternoon. Muicvopteryx calthella was taken 
abundantly in the sweeping net, and the following also occurred, 
i.e., Sevicovis lacunana, Catoptria ulicetana, Nemophova schwarziella, 
Gracillavia syvingella, Glyphipteryx fischeriella, and Lithocolletis 
quercifoliella, WLarve of Cheimatobia brumata, Hypsipetes sovdidata, 
Cleocera viminalis, Ephipprphova populana, and Depfressaria 
conteyminella (the last named commonly) were found in spun up 
shoots of sallow, and the larve of Tortvix palleana were being 
continually swept up in the coleopterists’ nets. A pupa of 
Dasyceva sulphuvella was also taken. 
The Rev. E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock reports :—This meeting 
from the botanical point of view was most successful, though the 
ground has been worked so fully during the last fifty years by the 
late John Cordeaux and others, that nothing unusual was expected 
toturn up. In passing through the ozier holt, not only recording 
the flora, but also noticing insect visitors to the flowers, a furious 
conflict was observed between a coleopteron and a dipteron ina 
large Tavaxacum officinale flower. The beetle in this case was the 
aggressor, and yet was only a very little larger than the fly. 
Unluckily I was near no brother naturalists, and had no insect 
tubes in my pocket; for the future I shall never go out without 
them, for I gathered the flower without disturbing the conflict, 
