THE LEPIDOPPER A or 
LINCOLNSHIRE. 
PART I. 
By G. W. Mason. 
Barton-on-Humber. 
In this Part, and in succeeding Parts in future numbers of the 
Transactions, I have been asked toset forth the Records of species 
occurring in the County, and which have accumulated under the 
care of the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union. ‘The Lists will show 
what a number of rare and local insects are to be found through- 
out the length and breadth of the Shire, and that in many 
instances localities in Lincolnshire are the most northerly points 
in Great Britain for certain species. On several occasions I have — 
been astonished to find that such and such a moth is to be found 
in the County, but I have made careful enquiries as far as possible, 
and I have eliminated any record which is at all doubtful. 
Part I. takes in the Sphinges and Bombyces. I have adopted 
Mr. Richard South’s ‘“Synonymic List of British Lepidoptera.” 
108 out of 150 species belonging to the Sphinges and Bombyces 
are recorded as occurring in the County, and one species, the 
Oleander Hawk Moth (Cherocampa nerit), belonging to the List 
of ‘Casual or Accidental Visitors,’ was captured at South 
Sometcotes and is now in the possession of the Louth Naturalists’ 
Society. One of the best insects ever taken in the County is 
undoubtedly Laelia caenosa, now probably extinct. More workers 
are wanted for the Southern Divisions of the County; | feel sure 
that if the extensive woods in the South were well worked, and 
systematic observations were made in recording species, 1t would 
be found that some moths which are now regarded as somewhat 
rare are really well distributed. 
I have used many of the contractions that | employed in my 
paper on Lincolnshire Butterflies with a few slight alterations — 
and additions, 
