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LINCOLNSHIRE PSEUDOSCORPIQNS : 



WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SUCH 

 ANIMALS WITH OTHER ARTHROPODS. 



H. WALLIS KEW, F.Z.S., 

 Londo?i ; formerly of Loath, Lincolnshire. 



At the time of the publication of the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge's 

 memoir 'On the British Species of False-Scorpions,' in 1892, 

 about 46 kinds were known in Europe, of which 20 had occurred 

 in Britain, and no less than 14 in the sing-le county of 

 Dorset. Several species are stated to be common and 

 widely distributed, but they are seldom seen unless specially 

 looked for, and thus it happens that for Lincolnshire, where 

 no one has particularly attended to these creatures, we are as 

 yet able to record four species only. Personally, while collect- 

 ing in the county for several years, I found but one species, the 

 Chelifer latreillii Leach ; and during- these later years, in what 

 Londoners are pleased to call the home-counties, I have 

 encountered but one other, the Obisium muscorum Leach, which 

 occurred among dead leaves in Epping Forest. 



The Lincolnshire species, though as yet only four, represent 

 as many genera : Chthonius, Chelifer, Chernes, and Chiridium ; 

 and they leave unrepresented, of British genera, two only, 

 Roncus and Obisium. They have been very obligingly identi- 

 fied, from all- the Lincolnshire localities under-noted, by 

 Mr. Cambridge, whose kindness I desire to acknowledge with 

 much gratitude. In preparing the second part of the paper, 

 I have had the good fortune to enjoy the co-operation of Mr. 

 G. K. Gude, who in this as in other tasks has helped me with 

 the literature. My thanks are due, moreover, to Mr. Beaulah, 

 of Raventhorpe; Dr. George, of Kirton-in-Lindsey ; Mr. J. E. 

 Mason, of Lincoln ; Mr. Carter, Mr. Goulding, and Mr. Larder, 

 of Louth, who have contributed local notes and specimens ; and 

 also to Mr. F. M. Campbell, of Machynlleth ; Dr. W. Hess, of 

 Mulhouse (Alsace) ; Dr. F. v. Wagner,, of Giessen ; the 

 Rev. A. Thornley, of South Leverton ; and Lt.-Col. H. J. O. 

 Walker, of Budleigh Salterton, who have favoured me with 

 replies to inquiries and with references. 



* O. P. -Cambridge, 'On the British Species of False-Scorpions,' 

 Proceeding's of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 

 XIII. (1892), pp. 199-231. 



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