242 Addvess to the Lincolushive Naturalists’ Union. 
have been incorporated and this has been rendered an easy task 
owing to the industry of our former President, Mr. W. Denison 
Roebuck, to whom we are also indebted for a number of our 
records. 
During the last few years a lot of careful work has been 
done in the Grimsby district with the help of Mr. A. Bullock, 
Mr. F. W. Sowerby and other members of the Grimsby 
Naturalists’ Society, so that I can safely say that, with regard to 
Coleopteva, that district is by far the best worked area of our 
County. 
There is however a great deal yet to be done before we can 
say we know much of the Coleoptera of our County: the 
‘myrmecophilous species’ (those living in company with ants) 
have not been investigated at all, and those inhabiting the nests 
of mammals and birds we know little about. Then again there 
are some Divisions of the County from which we have no records 
at all, and those from the South V.C. are markedly deficient. 
As you know we are printing, in our Transactions, a section 
of the County Coleoptera each year, and also additions to the 
published sections. These lists will soon be completed and our 
records will be up to date. 
On reviewing our lists I might perhaps refer to a number of 
conspicuous species, especially amongst the Geodephaga, which 
appear to have left us :— 
The beautiful Cicindela sylvatica used to be found in Dawson’s 
time on Manton Common but is never now heard of in our 
County: Cicindela maritima occurred at Cleethorpes in 1869 and 
probably later, but there is no trace of it now, its old haunts 
being the site of a golf course; and we have never located the 
beautiful Cavabus nitens though recorded from North Lincolnshire 
long ago. Badistey peltatus, Stenolophus vespertinus, Acupalpus 
consputus and Anchomenus livens, all occurred near Boston in 
Mr. E. C. Rye’s time, but we have never heard of them again, 
possibly the result of drainage of that fen area. 
I was interested in turning over the leaves of a copy of 
Dawson's ‘‘ Geodephaga Britannica”’ to find between the pages an 
