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Where the Boulder Clay is thin or denuded some fine 

 •exposures of the Kimeredg-e Clay are found in ditches and 

 brick-pits, Miss Annie Foster, of the Science and Art School, 

 Horncastle, has beg-un to make a study of pits, and has sent 

 -me the following- notes : — At Horncastle, in North Street, at 

 Harrison's Pit, she found Encrinoid, Iridescent Ammonite, and 

 ■Calcareous Nodules ; at Hatton, about seven miles north-west 

 £>f Horncastle, in a brick-pit (working - ), vertebras of Ichthyosaurus 

 (communis, a shoulder paddle (?) of Ichthyosaurus, and Gryphea ; 

 at Stourton, about six miles north-west of Horncastle, in a 

 brick-pit (disused), fossil wood and calcareous deposits ; at 

 West Ashby, two miles north of Horncastle, she dug- fossils 

 from a ditch, Saurian vertebrae ; at Fulletby, three miles north- 

 east of Horncastle, in a brick-pit (disused), she found Saurian 

 vertebras, Ostrea in abundance, large Belemnites, parts of 

 Ammonites communis and shales, several feet being- exposed in 

 vertical section. 



Gonoptera libatrix at Manton Common.— This has been collected 

 in 1900 by Mr. Max Peacock, and sent me for identification and record. 

 — Alfred Thornley, South Leverton, 5th January 1901. 



Co Has edusa and Vanessa io in South Lincolnshire. — Specimens 

 of this butterfly were seen on the roadsides between Sapperton and Ropsley 

 on 8th September, and at Court Leys, Caythorpe, on 15th September. The 

 last time we saw any in this neighbourhood was in 1892. 



Vanessa io has been unusually abundant here this season. — S. C. Stow, 

 Court Leys, Brandon, Grantham, 22nd September 1900. 



Aplecta occulta in Cleveland. — A few specimens of this fine noctua 

 have occurred in the Cleveland district this summer, and being - the first 

 I have come across in this district during- some years' working-, I thought 

 they would be worth recording. The first specimen I took was at sugar in 

 the garden at Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, on the 28th August. Another 

 specimen was taken on the 31st, also at sugar, being a ^ , which had a large 

 quantity of ova which unfortunately proved infertile. Another specimen 

 was taken at Middlesbrough about this time by my friend Mr. W. Sachse. 

 Another friend of mine, Mr. Frank Atkinson took two specimens and missed 

 three or four others at sugar at Glaisdale. — T. Ashton Lofthouse, The 

 Croft, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, 15th November 1900. 



Captures of Lepidoptera at Middlesbrough.— The following are 

 a few insects I have taken in the garden at Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, 

 during the past season : — 



Plusia festucce. I took one at Valerian flowers at early dusk on the 

 20th July. 



Mamestra abjecta. Two at sugar on the 9th of Aug-ust. 



Epunda lutulenta. The first specimen taken at sugar on the 24th 

 August; others occurred on the 27th, two; the 28th, one; the 30th. two; 

 3rd September, two— all c?s; 4th September, two, $ and $ ; 5th September, 

 two $s. 



Anchocelis lunosa. A single specimen at sugar on the 4th September. 

 T. A. Lofthouse, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, 15th November 1900. 



.1901 February i. 



NOTES on LEPIDOPTERA. 



