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ORTHOPTERA, NEUROPTERA AND 



TRICHOPTERA OF THE 

 ALFORD DISTRICT OF NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE. 



KXTRACTED PROM THE REGISTERS KEPT BY 



JAMES EARDLEY MASON, 

 Laze President of the Alford Xaturalists* Society. 



[By the kindness of the officers of the Lincolnshire Naturalists, 



Union, into whose possession the Register-books of the Alford 

 Naturalists' Society have now passed, we are able to give records of 

 such insects of the orders Orthoptera, Neuroptera and Trichoptera as 

 have been ascertained to occur in the district. Mr. Mason was so 

 careful to include no records which had not been submitted to com- 

 petent authorities, that we can print these extracts from his registers 

 with perfect confidence in their reliability. Each record bears two 

 sets of initials ; the first — separated by a semi-colon — is that of 

 the collector; the second— enclosed within parenthesis — is that of 

 the ' detenu inator ? or authenticator. The initials here used are 

 as follows : 



F.A. F. Altoft. 



H.W.K. H. Wallis Kew. 



R.McL. Robert McLachlan. 



J.E.M. James Eardiey Masoi 



G.T.P. George T. Porritt. 



E.S. Eland Shaw. 



E.W. Edward Woodthorpe. 



The number of species we are able to record here for North 

 Lincolnshire is as follows: — Orthoptera, 10; Neuroptera, 20: 

 Trichoptera, 9]. 



ORTHOPTERA. 



FORFICULIDsE. 



minor 



igust 



1888; J.KM. (G.T.P. ). One at the Chauntry, April 22nd, 

 1889; J.E.M. (G.T.P.). 

 Forficula auricularia L. Earwig. Local name, ^ Battle-twig.' 



BLATTID.E. 



Periplanetaorientalis(L.). Cockroach. Alford, at The Sycamores. 



Bilsby, abundant at the Vicarage, January 1889. 



ACRIDID.K. 



Stenobothrus viridulus (L.). Mumby Chapel, sandhills, two, 



August 1887 : J.E.M. (G.T.P.). 



May 1806. 



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