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Field Notes. 



HVMENOPTERA. 



Lincolnshire Galls. — At a meeting- of the Lincolnshire 

 Naturalists' Union at Little Bytham, on the 24th June, the 

 following- interesting galls were taken in Holywell parish, on 

 Lincolnshire Limestone : — Aiilax giechomce Htg-. on Nepcia 

 giechoma, very common on one hedge bank. Phyllocoptes 

 T/iv?}ii NslI. on Thymus Serpyllum. Adelges ahietis L. on Ahieo 

 excelsa. Cecidomyia margine^n-toTqueno Wtz. on Salix viminalis 

 L. Cecidomyia veronicas Brenii. on Veronica Chamcedrys L. 

 Cecidotnyia Ulmarice Bremi. on SpircBa Ulmaria L., very 

 common, the galled leaves on the Boulder Clay were also 

 attacked by that beautiful orange fungus UroiJiyces Ulmarice. 

 On Boulder Clay — Eriophyes macrorhyiiciis Nal. on Acer cam- 

 pestre L. Eriophyes Avellance Nal. on Corylus Ave I Ian a L. 

 Spathegaster baccarmn L. ori Quercns pedunculata. An unnamed 

 gall on Galium uligijiosum was also taken. — S. C. Stow, 

 Grantham. 



LEPIDOPTERA, 



The Striped Hawkmoth near Huddersfield. — Mr. John 



Bedford, of Kirkburton, has kindly given me a good specimen 

 of Deilephila livornica found at rest in a garden at Rowley Hill, 

 near Huddersfield, on 30th May 1904. It appears to be almost 

 50 years since this species was recorded for the Huddersfield 

 district. ^ — B. Morley, Skelmanthorpe, 4th July 1904. 



COLEOPTERA. 



Geotrupes typhosus in the Lake District. — This beetle 

 has been but seldom recorded for the North of England, but 

 it is plentiful in some parts of Cumberland and Lake-Lancashire. 

 During the first week of April this year I found it abundant in 

 the pastures of the Esk Valley near Boot and on the fell sides 

 near Butterilket Farm. Here, as well as in the pastures at 

 Wastdale Head, in the Duddon Valley at Seathwaite, and on 

 the fell sides near Walna Scar and Seathwaite Tarn I constantly 

 saw fresh burrows in close proximity to sheep-dung. In Wry- 

 nose Pass I picked up the casting of some large bird of prey — 

 probably a Common Buzzard — which was composed almost 

 entirely of the remains of this Geotrupes. — Chas. Oldham, 

 Knutsford, 5th May 1904. 



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