190 Peacock: Lincolnshire Naturalists at Spalding. 



Miss S. C. Stow writes that the Moss list contains 16 species, 

 and she believes that a longer search would have proved the 

 district not a bad one at a better season of the year. 

 Crowland Abbey, Div. 16 : — 



Brachythecium rutabulum B.&S. 

 Surfleet, Div. 17 : — 

 Grimmia pulvinata Sm. Mnium undulatum L. 



Pottia truncatula Ldb. Brachythecium albicans B.&S. 



Tortula muralis Hedw. Amblystegium serpens B.&S. 



Barbula fallax Hedw. Hypnum riparium L. 



Barbula unguiculata Hedw. Hypnum cuspidatum L. 



Bryum pseudo-triquetrum Schwg. 



Spalding, Div. 18: — 

 Bryum argenteum L. Hypnum riparium L. 



Fontinalis antipyretica L. and var. longifolium Schp. 



Brachythecium rutabulum B.&S. Hypnum cuspidatum L. 



Eurhynchium praelongum B.&S. 



The President reported shortly on the Insecta as follows : — 

 A great deal of time was spent in visiting the fine old Abbey, 

 and very little remained over for entomological work. Friday, 

 too, was rather a windy day, which, in so flat a country, 

 militates much against success in finding insects. However, 

 an interesting Saw-fly, Allantus scrophularias turned up at 

 Scrophularia aqnatica. There seems little doubt that this harm- 

 less and pretty insect is a mimic of Vespa sylvestris, which visits 

 and pollinates the same plant. The other insects just worth 

 mentioning were : — Stenobothms bicolor, a very common Grass- 

 hopper, and that common Bug, iVabis limbatus. At Surfleet, 

 a very promising locality, visited on Saturday morning, the 

 following common Beetles were taken : — 



Calathus melanocephalus. Ocypus morio. 



Calathus cisteloides. Bledius spectabilis. 



At Crowland half-an-hour was given to the Land and Fresh- 

 water Mollusca, but as the drains had recently been cleaned out 

 they were spoiled for the time being. Messrs. Burton, Thornley, 

 and I managed to find the following : — 



Arion ater. Planorbis spirorbis. 



Arion hortensis. Planorbis carinatus 



Agriolimax agrestis. et var. albida. 



Hyalinia cellaria. Physa fontinalis. 



Helix hortensis var. lutea. Limnoea palustris. 



Helix caperata. Limnaea peregra. 



Helix virgata et var. obliterata. Vivipara contecta. 



Planorbis corneus (young). Both the Bythiniae, and 



Planorbis vortex. Valvata piscinalis. 



Naturalist, 



