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Fab, The Kev. W. W. Fowler, who kindly named a specimen of this weevil 

 for me, says in his letter—" B. mcerens is rather a good beetle, I have only 

 found it in one locality, where it is rather plentiful." Under some fallen 

 oak branches, a young specimen of Arion ater v. rufa, L. (about as big as 

 Arion hortensis) was found, together with another very young Arion, ater, 

 agreeing with v. pallescens, Moq. in its present condition, but which would 

 probably have turned rufa when it became adult. Next we came to a pit 

 on the border of Haugham Pasture, known to us as the " marbled-white pit," 

 because it is one of our localities for Melanargia Galatea. On the chalky 

 soil at the top of this pit, violets ( Viola hirta) were plentiful ; down in the 

 bottom of the pit a single specimen of Helix ericetomm was found, and a 

 dead shell of Helix hortensis, with a band formula of (12)045 was picked up. 

 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, to whom I submitted the specimen of H hortensis, 

 wrote me — "the band-formula (12)045 is new to Britain, it was first men- 

 tioned by E. Yon Martens as a Continental variety." This usually common 

 Helix is curiously scarce in this neighbourhood, and I believe it is yet un- 

 recorded for Lincolnshire ; at least it was not recorded for vice-counties 53 

 and 54 (North and South Lincoln) in the " Census of the authenticated dis- 

 tribution of British Land and Fresh-water Mollusca," by Taylor and Roebuck, 

 read before "The Conchological Society," in April, 1885; this may be 

 accounted for, perhaps, by the fact that the County of Lincoln has not yet 

 been properly worked. A log of wood was turned over in this pit, Helix 

 arbustorum, H. rotundata, Zonites glaber, and Z. cellarius being the result. 



Passing across an arable field Maltby Wood was reached. A log which 

 had formerly done duty as a gate-post was turned over, and produced Helix 

 arbustorum, Helix rotundata, Limax agrestis type, and Clausilia rugosa. 

 On the trunks of some oak trees by the side of the ride in the wood, one 

 female and several males of the common little moth JDiurnea fagella were 

 noticed, and afterwards in the wood a male was taken on the wing. Under 

 the moss at the roots of an oak, the tree slug {Limax arborum) was fouud, 

 and just before leaving the wood Arion subfuscus was taken from beneath 

 some pieces of wood, which were going to be used for the purpose of mending 

 the fence. Leaving Maltby Wood we walked home by the London Road, 

 visiting a disused chalk -pit by the roadside on our way, here were noticed 

 Helix caperata and rotundata ; the garden-slug (Arion hortensis) and the 

 field-slug (Limax agrestis) were common under the loose pieces of chalk. 

 After we had left this pit and noted the little beetle Trechus minutus, under 

 a stone by the road-side we made the best of our way homewards. 

 Louth. 



