258 FORMATION OF A LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION. 
Festuca rubra L. So Mr. Arthur Barnett nameda specimen from 
Skegness for me, but I cannot help thinking that it is the 
F. rubra L.., i.¢e., F. arenaria Osb.; but it was not creeping 
as far as I Sbeerved. This is a first veceed for county of Lincoln 
in any case. Unfortunately I lost my specimens.—E. A. W.- 
bot arenarius L. 
lants which I find, from theevid of my ‘Locality Register, 
to ie common to all parts of the county I have not noticed in this 
list. Specimens of most of the rarer ones were taken from the County 
Herbarium, which, along with the thousands of notes in my ‘ Locality 
Register,’ are always at the service of working naturalists. This 
list, considering the short time at the disposal of the botanists, is 
a very creditable one; for they were deprived for two-thirds of their 
walk of the great knowledge of Mr. F. A. Lees, who arrived by 
a later train. 
The following entomologists were present :—Professor L. C. Miall, 
F.R.S., Rev. W. W. Fowler, M.A., F.E.S., and Messrs. T. Gelsthorpe, 
W. F. Baker, J. Coe, and E. J. Slater. 
For the Lepidoptera, the only thing worthy of note was the 
enormous quantity of the larve of the Cinnabar Moth (Euchelia 
Jacobee), all the shrubs and plants on the sand-hills literally swarming 
with them. 
For the Coleoptera, the Rev. Canon W. W. Fowler reports that 
the weather was extremely unfavourable, as a strong and cold 
east wind was blowing, and very few therefore were ‘observed, — 
the best being Bledius bicornis, which, to judge by the casts — 
thrown up considerably below high-water mark, was very abundant ; ge 
Bledius arenarius was also found and a single specimen ce 
Dyschirius thoracicus; Anomala frischii also occurred on the sand- 
hills, with a few ordinary Dromii, Homalote, etc.; these with —_ a 
guttula, Hydroporus assimilis, and H. depressus, cat a few common 
Bembidia made up the list of captures. _ Cynoglossum officinale (the oe 
_ Common Hound’s Tongue) was in bloom, and very plentiful, but did o 
not yield a single beetle, although one certainly might have cen e 
to get a few Centhorhynchus asperifoliarum, 
For Conchology, Mr. F. W. Fierke, M.C.S., the Ree be w : 
Whistler, M.R.C.S., and Mr. F. M. Burton collected, the first named - 
giving the following report : — a 
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