240 Addvess to the Lincolnshive Naturalists’ Union. 
Then we have a large section which owe their very exist- 
ence to the farmer and agriculturist, and in some seasons lay 
claim to the fruits of his labour. 
We have, therefore, good reason for making our records, for 
nature is ever altering the land, the fauna and the flora, so that 
even in our own time we shall see great changes. 
The county of Lincoln is the second largest in England: 
its total length is 75 miles by 48 in breadth, and it contains 
1.777,179 acres, 85 per cent. being under cultivation. Though 
we have no mountains with their characteristic species, we have 
sea-coast with sandhills, salt-marsh, marshlands, chalk wolds, 
heaths, sandy commons and woodlands. The Fenland area, 
once so distinctive in its fauna, has lost its former glories, but 
we find much in the long ditches to cheer us in this respect. 
Then we have our chalk-pits, sandpits, ponds and streams, all 
happy hunting grounds for the coleopterist. 
Another interesting fact, from the coleopterist’s point of 
view, is the introduction of foreign species at the port of 
Grimsby, especially amongst timber from the Baltic—such 
striking species as Acanthocinus @dilis, Monohammus sartor, and 
M. sutoy mentioned elsewhere in our lists. None of these species 
have been found in our county under conditions that would 
imply that they had become established here, but at some future 
date we may have them recorded from our woodlands. 
When we come to look through our county records of 
Coleoptera, we find that the first considerable list refers to the 
districts of Linco!n and Spridlington, and was contributed in 
1843, by Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston. Then we have records in The 
Entomologists’ Weekly Intelligencer from the Boston district by 
W. K. Bissill and Mr. E. C. Rye, dated about 1858. Later, in 
his fine work, ‘‘Geodephaga Britannica,” the Rev. W. F. 
Dawson has left us many records; and then, to mention but a 
few contributors, we have Mr. H. Wallis Kew, Mr. H. Bedford 
Pim and others. 
All these, however, and those in a paper by himself on the 
Mablethorpe species are included by a former President of our 
