78 Peacock: Line. Naturalists at Somercotes and Saltfleetby. 



has produced an interesting list. We took 67 species of 

 Coleoptera, 31 Diptera. Lepidoptera were scarce, but Loma- 

 spilis marginata and Hadena thalassina turned up, with numerous 

 burnet-larvae ; I had one, which emerged as Zygcsna lonicerce. 

 In the group Neuroptera, Panorpa vulgaris (Scorpion Fly) and 

 the red dragonfly, Pyrrhosoma minium, with its pretty blue 

 cousin, Agrion puella, was abundant. In the Hymenoptera, 

 Ahdrena chrysosceles $ , occurred at flowers of wild Chervil. 

 Acompus rufipes, a rather local bug, was abundant amongst the 

 rushes. Miris calcaratus , M. Icevigatus and Megalocercea erratica 

 occurred commonly. I subjoin a list of the less common 

 Coleoptera and Diptera: — 



Corymbites tesselatus. Common. Hydrothassa aucta. 



Subcoccinella 24-punctata. Gymnetron labilis. Common. 



Phyllobius alneti. A grey variety. Stenus flavipes. Common. 

 Rag-onycha testacea. Common. Dasytes aeratus (Steph.). 



Galeruca lineola. Common. Telephorus figuratus. Several. 



Galeruca tenella. Common. Orchestes saliceti. 



Campylus linearis. Hypera suspiciosa. 



Limnobaris t-album. Cercus bipustulatus. 



Crepidodera modeeri. Ceuthorrhynchus eochlearias. 



Phyllobius viridicollis. 



Amongst the Diptera, the best flies were a Syrphid, Tropidia 

 milesiiformis , which was common, and Syrphus lunulatns. 



Saltfleetby. 



The fall of temperature recorded on the previous day con- 

 tinued, and the drive from Louth to Saltfleetby was in the teeth of a 

 strong N.E. wind. Insects were naturally scarce. But hard work 

 amongst rubbish on the salt marsh revealed several species I had 

 found there a few years ago. Pogonus chalceus, common, 

 especially under the cakes of dried mud. Bembidhim concinnum 

 was common under tidal rubbish on the banks of the river, but 

 chiefly in one spot. Cillenus, common in 1896, I failed to find. 

 Homalota vestiia was everywhere in damp places. A dead rabbit 

 yielded some score of Saprinns nilidulus, Hister cadaveriiius, 

 Choleva chrysomeloides , C. grandicollis , C. tristis, with Necro- 

 phorus hiimator and Creophilus maxillosus. A single specimen 

 of Dendrophilus punctatus and a pair of Corynetes cceruleus 

 in an old bone, were nice finds. The following beetles were 

 also found : — Harpalus tardus, Bledius spectabilis, Ceuthor- 

 rhynchus asperifoliarum, Dichirotrichiis pubescens, Dyschirius 

 ceneus, D. globosus, Leistus ferrugineus, Bembidium minimum and 

 B. varium, with many abundant seaside species. It was hoped 

 that some good work would have been done amongst the 



Naturalist, 



