276 GOULDING : LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS AT GRANTHAM. 



The Rev. E. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock writes of the whole 

 week : — The botanical work of this meeting of the Union began on 

 Monday, the 15th, and continued all the week. In conjunction 

 with Mrs. V. F. Wilson and party, I verified the old locality for 

 Thesium humifusum on the High Dyke, Leadenham, Div. 13. There, 

 too, we luckily chanced on Hypocharis metadata — a true native, 

 which will undoubtedly prove the best find of the whole season. 

 Most of the rarer limestone species were noted on the 15th, the 

 best re-discovery being Rumex pulcher at Fulbeck. The 16th brought 

 all the best botanists in the county together, but twenty pair of 

 critical eyes failed to add anything new to such w r ell-worked ground 

 as the Ancaster-Grantham neighbourhood. Messrs. Fowler, Mason, 

 and Peacock went to Spalding on the evening of the 16th, and 

 worked up the flora of Div. 18, till the party broke up on the 19th 

 thanks to the hospitality of the Rev. M. H. Marsden, vicar of 

 Spalding, and other courteous gentlemen. Full notes were made 

 during this week on some 260 genera; but Div. 18 yielded nothing 

 of very great interest beyond the well-known fenland species. For 

 Cowbit Wash was dry, the fish lying dead on the mud at the bottom 

 of the empty drains. 



The Rev. Alfred Thornley, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S., reports a 

 follows : — Owing to the very dry weather, and the fact that the day 

 was arranged rather in the interests of the geologists than of the 

 entomologists, these last have not much to report. In one of the 

 Ancaster quarries Bruchus cisti, an uncommon little beetle, was 

 taken freely in flowers of Helianthemum. In the large quarry a few 

 specimens of the local Centhorhynchits echii (geographicuni) occurred, 

 but with the exception of a single specimen of Centhorhynchns 

 chrysanthemi icampestris), these were the only beetles of note. 

 A specimen of Carabus monilis was secured in an old quarry ; and 

 Elaphrus riparius, with Bembidium fiammulatum^ abounded amongst 

 the beautiful Villarsia in the muddy end of the lake in Syston Park. 

 A fine but not uncommon Dragon-fly {Libellula depressa) was 

 captured in the wood by Ancaster Quarry. The following common 

 Hemiptera (bugs) were swept in places — Leptoterna dolobrata L 

 and Scolopostethus adjunctus D. & S. The Lepidoptera were not 

 very abundant, the season being yet early for butterflies. The 

 following were seen or captured — Canonympha pamphilus^ Hipparchia 

 janira^ Polyommatus icarus^ Pamphila sylvanus y and Thanaos tages. 

 Euchelia jacobea was in great abundance in one of the quarries, 

 in which also occurred both larvae and cocoons of a Zygana, possibly 

 Z lonicercz, as the common Z.Jilipendulce would be out. Many of these 

 cocoons were secured, and the results are being awaited with interest. 



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