318 Natural History of Thorne Waste. 
Keuper marls, topped by blown sand, at the Crowle Brick 
and Tile Works. 
Peat on Thorne Waste. 
Gravels, being grits with some quartzites, on Tween Bridge 
Moors. 
Bunter Sand at Thorne. 
Gravels of Magnesian limestone at Thorne, mingled with 
which were some Carboniferous limestones and grits. 
The VERTEBRATE SECTION was not officially represented at 
the meeting, but the Rev. F. H. Woods and Messrs. Butterfield 
and Corbett noted the following amongst numerous commoner 
birds :—Reed Warbler, Marsh Tit, Cuckoo (still singing), Reed 
Bunting, Lesser Redpole, Mallard, Snipe, Redshank, and 
Blackheaded Gull. 
Entromo.ocy. Lepidoptera.—The following, among other 
commoner species, were found :— 
Chortobius Davus. | 
Hesperia sylvanus. 
Chaerocampa elpenor. 
| Arctia fuliginosa. 
Coleoptera.—Mr. E. G. Bayford writes :—No doubt owing 
to long continued wet weather, beetles were not much in 
evidence, many of the species enumerated below having being 
seen in single specimens. Even the Coccznellidae, usually so 
ubiquitous at this time of the year, were by no means common, 
C. 7-punctata not being so frequent as on Good Friday, while 
the equally, if not more common, C. so-puncfata was not 
observed at all. The fine hot week which commenced with the 
visit of the Union to Thorne will no doubt have greatly 
increased the number of species, as also their comparative 
abundance. The following is a list of those met with :— 
Carabus violaceus L. 
Notiophilus palustris Duft. 
Leistus ferrugineus L. 
Bradycellus placidus Gyll. 
Harpalus ruficornis F. 
Pterostichus niger Schall. 
a strenuus Panz. 
Amara aulica Panz. 
an plebeia Gyll. 
Amphigynus piceus Marsh. 
Bembidium flammulatum Clairv. 
Trechus minutus F. 
Haliplus ruficollis De G. 
Laccophilus variegatus Germ. 
Hydroporus dorsalis F. 
5 palustris L. 
fydroporus pubescens Gyll. 
Agabus bipustulatus L. 
Gyrinus natator Scop. 
Megasternum boletophagum Marsh. 
Oligota inflata Mann. 
Conosoma pubescens Grav. 
Tachyporus chrysomelinus L. 
ah hypnorum F. 
Tachinus marginellus F. 
Quedius fulgidus F. 
Creophilus maxillosus L. 
Philonthus eneus Rossi. 
a politus F. 
a Jimetarius Grav. 
Xantholinus linearis Oliv, 
Othius leviusculus Steph. 
Naturalist, 
