ne id flight in the | 
i ith i ly glancing rapid flig Q 
ing up and down with its peculiar y hat when 
pide: of Newball Wood, near Wragby. I ptr at pe 
r 
first came to Lincoln I was introduced to po oli 
tr. Barber, of Lincoln (an excellent taxidermis — 
; oy Were 
dealers from Hull, who, with the retail price fixed at i += we 
able to make a very fair profit out of a good day ae cone 
Were, therefore, very pleased when Mr. W ordsworth, 
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2 3 Sy ae ee 
Beri sions eee 
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: idlands is 
‘Une of the best localities for beetles in the whole of the Mi 
entirely shut up now be 
in : ctically 
that there are a large number of localities which are pra 
inaccessible. If a] 
wer 
. i stance, 
notably the drainage of the Fen district. ‘The Siete for 
perhaps, is the Large Copper Butterfly, which has not be who can 
about fifty years, although there are several now living se 
in a 
ens. A of mine, now far advanced in years, Oana 
a boxful for a halfpenny apiece, and now £7 is not an 
Price for 
fen insect which has been extinguished by drainage, and a : 
‘@nosa (the Reed Tussort) has comparatively recently ere 
