alighted at Woodhall Spa and g the road-side to 
_ Kirkstead. This road, a typical country road, and. evidently, — 
312 LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS AT WOODHALL SPA. 
The Conchological sig was Officially represented by the 
sli Mr. F. W. Fierke, M.C.S., who furnishes the following 
report :—Conchological a were confined within a small area 
from Woodhall Spa, and a very poor result rewarded our efforts and 
the time spent in the locality. The dykes were completely dried up 
and a pond which looked very promising had also been considerably 
affected by the drought, thereby preventing its thorough investigation. 
In one little patch of water Vadletia /acustris was very plentiful, the 
majority of them being found upon the rushes growing in the pond. 
Flanorbus fontanus, too, occurred here, and a few specimens of 
LP. carinatus and Valvata cristata were taken in the scoop. The 
only other aquatic species we have to mention in order to complete 
this very meagre list is our old and familiar friend Limnea peregra, 
whom we seldom fail to meet. Laying the scoop aside, an examina- 
tion of the water’s edge resulted in placing on record a species of 
Succinea, the members of which genus form a kind of link between 
the terrestrial and aquatic mollusca, as they love to mount the | 
flags and rushes of the ponds and dykes or to spend their time 
in damp situations on the bank-side. The specimens we procured 
answered the description of S. putris. There has been little to 
report on the water snails, and as ececds the terrestrial mollusca 
we find even less. In addition to the Swecinea already mentioned, 
we noticed Arion minimus, Helix rotundata, H. hispida, 
Fyalinia cllaria, H. nitidula, and last, but not by any means 
fe 
discovery of the last-named species (taken on dead leaves in a hedge _ 
bottom) was the redeeming feature of an otherwise disappointing 
day’s work. It was also a record for the county. Summing up the © 
_ results, the terrestrial and aquatic mollusca had suffered alike from _ 
the extreme dryness of the season, and this fact alone accounts for 
the poor list obtained, as the district seeing speaking seems to be 
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€ +h oe a fairly good 
time. Mr. R. W. Geiae 4 who. had: confined his attention 
- principally to the Lepidoptera, noted the Red Admiral, the Peacock, 
Common Blue, Wall Brown, Ringlet, and Small Heath butterflies. — 
_ Mr. Joseph Coe and Mr. Walter F Baker, idoasiaietied by an early train, 
: turbed by omnivorous | ‘coliectors,” abounded | in ‘numerous silken 
of Agelena labyrinthica 01 fine 
