Peacock : Lincolnshire Naturalists at Horncastle. 



turned up, but most examples were very immature ; also an 

 example of the small red drag-on-fly, Pyrrhosoma minium. The 

 only butterflies seen on the route were a very few examples of 

 Epinephele janira (the Meadow Brown) and Anthocaris carda- 

 mines. Through the kind hospitality of Mr. F. M. Burton, an 

 enjoyable morning- was spent in the woods near Gainsborough 

 on the 14th, and some nice captures made. In the woods about 

 Gainsborough Melanippe albicillala was seen and captured; 

 Abraxas ulmata was not uncommon ; a single beautiful example 

 of Tephrosia crepuscularia was found at rest ; and also many of 

 the commoner ' Carpets ' were about. The beautiful Tineid 

 Longhorn Moth, Adela viridella, was very common ; and a 

 batch of caterpillars of Scopelosoma satellitia was discovered 

 under an old piece of sacking, probably blown from the trees by 

 a high wind, they had thus congregated for shelter. Amongst 

 the saw-flies, Tenthredo livida and T. melcena turned up. Cephus 

 pygmcens, the 'Corn Saw-fly,' was swarming in buttercups. 

 Allantus tenulus and Pamphilius hortorum were not uncommon 

 in sunny patches of the woods. With regard to other hymenop- 

 tera, Andrena fucata, Gorytes mystaceus, and Aysson spinosus were 

 all found. A few common diptera were observed, the best being 

 Syrphus lunulatus and a species which I believe to be Nemorcea 

 puparum. 



The Rev. J. Conway Walter has let me have the following- 

 list of animals, birds, and reptiles. The district to which he 

 refers stretches from Kirkstead through Woodhall to Horn- 

 castle, and includes the parishes in the Bain valley below that 

 town. Where the notes refer to a parish outside these limits 

 the parish is named. 



Animals. — The Flitter-Mouse, Urchin, Mole, Common Shrew, 

 Water Shrew, and the variety called the Oared Shrew, Badger, 

 Otter, Weasel, Stoat, Polecat, which is not so rare in this 

 neighbourhood as elsewhere in Lincolnshire ; the Pine-Martin, 

 still not very uncommon ; the Fox, Squirrel, Harvest Mouse, 

 Long-tailed Field Mouse, House Mouse, Rat ; the Black Rat he 

 has never met with ; the Water Vole, Short-tailed Field Vole, 

 Long-tailed Field Vole, Hare, Rabbit. 



Birds. — The Missel Thrush, Song Thrush, Redwing, Field- 

 fare, Blackbird, Ring-Ousel, Wheatear, Whinchat, Stonechat, 

 Redstart, Redbreast, Nightingale, Peggy Whitethroat, Lesser 

 Whitethroat, Blackcap, Garden Warbler, Golden-crested Wren, 

 ChiffchafT, Willow Wren, Wood Wren, Reed Warbler, Sedge 

 Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, Hedge Sparrow, the Dipper, 



1901 February 1. 



