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FURTHER ADDITIONS TO THE 
LIST OF SOME HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA 
OF LINCOLNSHIRE. 
EXTRACTED FROM THE REGISTER KEPT BY 
JAMES EARDLEY MASON, 
Late President of the Alford Naturalists’ Society. 
[In the ‘Naturalist’ for Oct. 1888, pp. 287-297, was published 
‘A List of some Hemiptera-Heteroptera of Lincolnshire, with Notes 
on Collecting,’ and in the number for April 1889, p. 128, a paper 
giving ‘Additions to the List of some Hemiptera-Heteroptera of 
Lincolnshire’; both papers being from the pen of Mr. Mason, and 
forming an exceedingly useful contribution to our knowledge of 
a department of the fauna of the county which, but for Mr. Mason’s 
labours, would have been entirely neglected. In these two papers 
Mr. Mason recorded 132 out of about 420 heteropterous hemiptera 
known to inhabit the British Islands. 
There are a number of additional records in the register-books 
kept by Mr. Mason for the Alford Naturalists’ Society, and now in 
the possession of the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union, including nine 
species additional to his published lists. These records, by the kind 
permission of the officers of the Union, we are enabled to publish 
here as what we fear must be looked upon as a final contribution to 
our knowledge of the Hemiptera-Heteroptera of the Alford District. 
For in spite of the word ‘Lincolnshire’ in the titles, the lists are 
almost entirely of species found within the parallelogram of chalk 
wold and sea-marsh which, having at its four corners the villages of 
Mablethorpe, South Ormesby, Skendleby and Mumby Chapel, formed 
the Alford district. 
We have included in the present paper all additional localities for 
species cited in the former papers, as well as the nine additional 
‘species; but have not thought it necessary to give the fresh records 
of later date for already recorded localities. Otherwise the present 
paper is substantially a transcript of the Register-book. 
r. Mason was a most careful student, and was in the habit of 
sahanittiny his specimens for the judgment of Mr. Edward Saunders, 
so that the records given may be accepted with full confidence as to 
their reliability. A few records by other collectors are sufficiently 
indicated by the name; otherwise all the records are Mr. Mason’s 
own. The arrangement and nomenclature are in accord with the 
two former The prefixed asterisks (*) denote the 9 
ous 
additional species. _—w. D.R.] 
July 1895. 
