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A LIST OF SOME HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA 

 OF LINCOLNSHIRE, 

 WITH NOTES ON COLLECTING. 



JAMES EARDLEY MASON, 

 Alford. 



This paper records the results of scattered and much -curtailed 

 collecting-days in the district of the Alford Naturahsts' Society in 

 the years 1885-6-7, and one or two in 1888. 



Notices of a few species from other localities in the county — to 

 which the word ' also ' is prefixed — and by other collectors, are incor- 

 porated herewith. 



The Alford district hes in Watson's ' Lincoln North ' and is 

 about ten miles square. Its eastern face skirts the shore of the 

 North Sea, with its wind-blown sand-hills and peculiar flora ; the 

 western verge just tops the first rise of the Chalk Wolds; Mable- 

 thorpe at the north-eastern corner, and Mumby Chapel at the south- 

 eastern, lie open to the .German Ocean ; while South Ormsby and 

 Skendleby at the corresponding corners to the west look out from 

 fair woods over the flat alluvial tract below them to the sea. 



It will be observed that the natui-al features indicate mainly 

 a Limestone Fauna and Flora modified by proximity to the sea and 

 exposure to the biting north-east winds of winter and early spring. 



Except where otherwise stated, each species has been taken by 

 myself, and verified by Mr. Edward Saunders, F.L.S., to whom I am 

 much indebted. The nomenclature and arrangement are those of 

 his Synopsis, published 1876. ' E.M.M.' refers to the volumes of 

 the ' Entomologists' Monthly Magazine,' and ' Brit. Hem.' to the 

 ' British Hemiptera-Heteroptera ' of Messrs. Douglas and Scott, 1865. 

 From Mr. Douglas I have also received help and information. 



GYMNOCERATA. 

 GEODROMICA. 

 CVDNIDrK 



Sehirus picipes Fall. Mablethorpe (T. V. Wollaston, E.M.M., 

 xii. 154). 



ARTHROPTERID.K. 



Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale Linn. Well Vale ; not uncommon 

 on hawthorn, June and September. 

 ^ Tropicoris rufipes Linn. Well Vale ; on various trees, June. 

 Also Muckton Wood, on oak, July. Common. 



Oct. 1 888. 



