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"Upper Cret. Series, Lines, and Yorks., and T. nodnlosa of the 

 'Geo. Sur. Mem., 1904), in the Lower Pink Band of the Lower 

 Chalk in the Louth District, I should perhaps record that I 

 have also found it fairly common in the Totternhoe Stone, 

 together with Terebratida cf. semiglohosa, in a pit in Welton 

 Vale, near Louth. — C. S. Carter, Louth. 



FLOWERING PLANTS. 



Mimulus Langsdorffii at Beniworth.— On August Bank 

 Holiday last, a line plant of Mimulus Langsdorffii { = M . hiteiis) 

 was found on the west bank of the River Bain, Beniworth, Lines. 

 Piv. 7. — C. S. Carter, Louth. 



VERMES. 



Land = Planarian in Welton Vale, near Louth.— Since 



Mr. H. Wallis Kew recorded (' Naturalist,' April 1897) the 

 Land-Planarian {Rhyuchodeiiius terrestris Mull) for Burwell and 

 Haugham Woods, where it is still common, few, if any, other 

 records have been made. On the 7th of July last, examples 

 were found under decaying timber in Welton Vale, near Louth. 

 — C. S. Carter, Louth, August 7th, 1910. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Note on a Yellow Underwing Moth. — During the evening 

 ■X)i July 22nd, a Yellow Underwing Moth {Tryphoena pronuba) 

 was seen crawling on the mantle-shelf in my room, which had 

 the door wide open to the garden. On examining the specimen, 

 I found it had a number of knobbed projections on its proboscis, 

 and the microscope showed that they were pollinia from one 

 of the Orchidaceae. The members of the order are so rare in 

 our immediate district that it seemed difficult to account for 

 the fact, but it happened that a few days before, I had received 

 some half-dozen specimens of Orchis pyramidalis from 

 Gloucestershire. These were in a vase in the same room, and 

 •careful comparison showed that the pollinia were those of this 

 •orchis. Evidently the moth had been visiting the flowers quite 

 freely previous to his capture, as his proboscis had no fewer 



jgio Sept. I. 



