The YOtfHC HATUBAMST: 



A Monthly Magazine of Natural History. 



Part 79. JULY, 1886. Vol. 7. 



WOODLAND RAMBLES IN LINCOLNSHIRE. 



By H. WALLIS KEW, F.E.S. 



AT nine o'clock on the 23rd April, 1886, a friend and I started out on a 

 ramble, during which Haugham and Maltby Woods were to be visited. 

 While walking along the road numerous specimens of ApJwdius punctalo- 

 sulcatus were noticed flying over horse-dung on the road in the hot sunshine. 

 Under a large stone at Kenwick Lodge Bembidium littorale was noted. 

 Here we left the road, but had a considerable distance across the fields to 

 walk before the woods could be reached. A heap of bricks near the path- 

 way was examined, among the mollusca here Zonites glaber and Helix rotun- 

 data were both plentiful ; and one specimen of Cochlicopa lubrica was taken 

 —this little mollusc crawled about actively in the chip-box in which it was 

 placed ; there was also a colony of yellow ants {Formica flava), which on 

 being molested were busily engaged in carrying away their pupse. Harpalus 

 ruficornis was captured. Under a plank in a ditch a single specimen of 

 Limncea truncatula was found. 



While passing Maltby Wood on our way to Haugham Wood we called in 

 at the central ride and found the field slug (Limax agrestis v. sylvatica), and 

 several of Helix hispida under a large log of wood. Haugham Wood being 

 reached we walked round its border, so that Grisel bottom, one of the most 

 beautiful spots in the district, might be reached before very late in the day. 

 Under a log just inside the wood a very young yellowish specimen of Avion 

 ater was found. Going a little further we visited Haugham pit (an old dis- 

 used chalk-pit adjoining the wood), under a large stone here were Clausilia 

 rugosa, Zonites glaber, Vitrina jpellucida, and the " ever present" Helix ro- 

 tundata. On the banks of the pit, Zonites nitidulus, Helix arbustorum and 

 Helix nemoralis v. libellula 00000 were taken, together with the common 

 sun beetle (Amara plebeia). Leaving this pit, and after making notes res- 

 pecting a hibernated peacock butterfly {Vanessa io) seen, and Meliget/ies 



