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The four species identified from Lincolnshire are :— - 



Chthonius rayi L.Koch. Sent to Mr. Cambridge several 

 years ago by Mr. Beaulah from Broughton, near Brigg. It 

 occurs somewhat frequently under stones in Dr. George's 

 garden at Kirton-in-Lindsey ; and has recently been found by 

 Mr. Carter under wood on the coast sand-hills at Trusthorpe, 

 and under flints in a chalk-pit at North Ormsby. Mr. Carter 

 remarks on the creature's activity, and on its habit, when 

 disturbed, of running quickly backwards. 



Chelifer latreillii Leach. Found by the writer, in 1886, 

 under bark of dead-wood in a fence, near the sea, at Mable- 

 thorpe ; and reported — as Chelifer degeerii C.Koch, a synonym 

 by which the species was then known — in ' The- Naturalist,' 

 1886, p. 339. One had eggs attached to the under-side of the 

 abdomen. Subsequently others were found by me in the same 

 spot; and some were brought thence to London by Mr. Gudc 

 One or two of these were carrying eggs, which soon hatched, 

 the parents becoming surrounded by numerous young. The 

 animal was again observed during the meeting of Lincolnshire 

 Naturalists at Mablethorpe in 1893."" Mr. Goulding found 

 a specimen last year under an old boot on the Mablethorpe 

 sand-hills ; and Mr. Carter has sent me it from Trusthorpe, 

 where he found it in some plenty under wood on the sand-hills. 

 Mr. Cambridge mentions .having received it from Mr. J. E. 

 Mason, then of Alford,f by whom I am told that the specimens 

 came from the coast sand-hills at Chapel St. Leonards, where 

 the creature is not uncommon. 



Chernes nodosus Schrank. Among slides of Pseudo- 

 scorpions mounted in Canada-balsam, which Dr. George has 

 permitted me to submit to Mr. Cambridge, ts one containing 

 four individuals of this species— from the neighbourhood of 

 Kirton-in-Lindsey. Mr. Larder has recently obtained a speci- 

 men from the leg of a fly caught on the wing at Louth. 



Chiridium museorum Leach. Mr. Cambridge mentions 

 having received this very little species — the Book-scorpion — 

 from Mr. Beaulah, near Brigg, and from Dr. George, of Kirton- 

 in-Lindsey. i I understand that Mr. Beaulah's specimens were 

 from Raventhorpe. Dr. George found it, in July 1877, in great 



* VV. F. Baker, Naturalist, 1893, p. 261 

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