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For Entomolog-y Messrs. Porritt and Hewett reported that 

 nothing- could be done among the Lepidoptera. 



The Coleopterists, represented by Messrs. Bayford and 

 Corbett, did a little collecting in the Torne and a small amount 

 of ' beating ' also, the result being, Harpalus ruficornis, 

 Pterostichus madidus, Pt. niger, Anchomenus albipes, Calathus 

 cisteloides, Deronectes depressus, Hydroporus pictus, Haliplus 

 ruficollis, H. fluviatilis, Anaccena globula, Coccinella 10-punctata, 

 Rhagonycha limbata, Crepidodera transversa, Deporails betulce, 

 Phyllobius calcaratus, Stophosomus coryli, Rhynchites nanus, 

 and Elmis ceneus. 



Insects of other orders were submitted to the Rev. Alfred 

 Thornley, M.A., F.L.S., who reported that the Hymenoptera 

 Aculeata were Gorytes mystaceus and Odynerus callosus ; and the 

 solitary Hemiptera-Heteropteron, Psallus betuleti. 



Other sections reported complete blanks. 



Sympathetic reference was made to the death of Mr. A. Pater- 

 son, the oldest local member of the Union, and a vote of thanks 

 to the Chairman terminated the meeting. 



It is to be hoped that the Union will repeat the excursion at 

 an early date and have better weather, when there can be no 

 doubt that a most enjoyable and valuable day would be spent. 



NOTES and NEWS. 



We have received from Mr. R. Charles, of Highcliffe, Christchurch, 

 Hants, a suite of Eocene and Oligocene Mollusca from the Paris Basin, 

 which includes 40 different species, all in excellent condition, carefully 

 named and with particulars as to locality and geological horizon. Air. 

 Charles spares no pains to give satisfaction to his clients, and the great 

 interest of being- found in deposits of the same relative age as the Upper 

 Eocene of Barton, the Middle Eocene of Bracklesham Bay, and the Oligo- 

 cene of Hordwell, as well as the exquisite beauty of form and fine state of 

 preservation, makes this ninth series noteworthy, and we heartily recommend 

 all who are interested to at once give Mr. Charles their patronag-e. 



LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS AT SCUNTHORPE. 



Rev. EDWARD ADRIAN WOODRUFFE PEACOCK, L.Th., F.L.S.. F.G.S.. 



Vicar of Cadney; Organising and Botanical Secretary, Lincolnshire Naturalists' I'nioti. 



The wet day on the 10th July ruined the Joint Meeting of York- 

 shire and Lincolnshire Naturalists at Doncaster and Epworth. 

 • With the nth came fine weather for the Scunthorpe meeting", 

 but Yorkshire was only represented by one of the Secretaries 

 of the Union, Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S. Considering 



1902 December i. 



