30 Field Notes. 



SPIDERS. 

 Zora maculata and Oonops pulcher near Grimsby. — 



Zora iitaciilnta is an addition to tlie Lincolnshire list of spiders. I took 

 it at Bradlev (Div. 4) in March 1902. 



Whilst visiting; Xevvsham Woods (Div. 3) this summer. Mr. Pjirker and 

 I searched for spiders, and from rubbish in a crevice of a wooden hut we 

 took a sing-le specimen of Oonops piilcher. This makes the third parish in 

 which this rare spider occurs in the Grimsby district. — Arthur Smith, 

 5, Cavendish Street, Grimsby, 10th September 1902. 



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BEETLES. 



Clonus scrophularias in North Lancashire. — Thanks to Mr. Wallis 

 Kew's paper (ante 149-55), ^ have seen the cocoons oi Cioiiits scrophularice 

 in fair quantity this year, some very fine on Scrophidaria nodosa between 

 Water Yeat and Arklid, at foot of Conislon Lake. They occur also 

 between Nibthwaite and Lowick, and in various lanes about Ulverston. — 

 S. L. Petty, Ulverston, 4th October 1902. 



Pogonus luridipennis in Lincolnshire, ^On 4th September 1902 my 

 wife brought home some 'Samphire' [Snlicornia herbacea) g-athered at 

 Saltfleet. On searching' among-st it I found three beetles, which I sent to 

 the Rev. A. Thornley, who submitted a specimen to Canon Fowler, and 

 writes me that they ' have turned out to be (as he suspected) one of the 

 very rarest of British beetles, viz., Pogomis luridipennis. The only locality 

 where it is taken at present is, he believes, Sheerness. The specimens from 

 this locality are, however, much larger, though coloured exactly the same, 

 and in all particulars quite the same.' 



A specimen was also found among growing- ' Samphire ' at Humberstone 

 on i8th September, when a few members of the Louth and Grimsby 

 Societies, with the Rev. E. A. W. Peacock, visited that place. — C. S. 

 Carter, 8, Bridgfe Street, Louth, 6th November 1902. 



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GEOLOGY. 



A Lincolnshire Boring. — Mr. Henr\' Preston, F.G.S., has published 

 particulars of an important boring at Caythorpe, which, after passing- 

 throug-h the Northampton sands, penetrated 199 feet of Upper Lias, 

 19 feet of Marlstone, and entered the Middle Liassic Clays. An exami- 

 nation of the shallow wells in the Lincolnshire Limestone showed that the 

 rock has a well-defided dip to the west, down the face of the escarpment, as 

 though it had settled down upon the eroded surface of the L^pper Lias. In 

 his opinion this settlement is probably the cause of a continuous spring- 

 flowing- from the junction, and it has g-iven rise to an under-estimate of the 

 thickness of the beds of the Upper Lias. Mr. Preston is doing- g-ood work 

 in collecting- details of Lincolnshire borings. Would that someone would 

 continue the work of recording- Lincolnshire erratics, so ably started a few 

 years ago. 



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Rural Studies Series, No. i, ' Thoroughbreds and their Grass-Land,' bv 

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 Vicar of Cadney, Brigg, Soil, Grass, and Game Specialist, is the title of 

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