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Field Notes. 



Lincolnshire Plant Notes. — At the Stamford meeting- of 

 the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union, on 29th June, a larg-e 

 number of plants was taken, the best being- CEnanthe fliiviatilis, 

 in ditch bed at Newstead Mills, and Cardamine amara on the 

 banks — the soil was modern freshwater alluvium ; Galium tricorne 

 on Great Oolitic Limestone in Stamford quarries, and Trifolium 

 ochroleiicon in quantities on upper estaurine deposits ; Geranium 

 columhiniim also on freshwater alluvium. 



At the Linwood meeting- of the Louth Naturalists', etc., 

 Society, on Whit-Monday, the best plant taken was Lycopodium 

 clavatiim L. Vei'onica scutellata var. hirsuta Weber was seen 

 once more on the only known spot in Lincolnshire — a marshy 

 pit on the way to the Warren. — A. Smith, Grimsby. 



COLEOPTERA, 



Stenolophus elegans Dej. : an addition to the Yorkshire 

 list of Geodephaga. — On 15th May 1903, while working- for 

 water-beetles in the, then, flooded ditches of Thorne Moor, 

 I took a small g-eodephag-ous insect, which on examination I 

 concluded was the above-named species. Having- to-day again 

 examined it with Mr. Bayford, and having- compared the 

 descriptions in the works of Cox, Dawson, and Fowler, I think 

 that there is no doubt that the diag-aosis is correct. The only 

 localities g-iven for the species in Fowler are all in the south-east 

 of Eng-land, viz., Gravesend, Sheppy, Sheerness, and Deal.^ — ■ 

 H. H. CoRBETT, Doncaster, loth August 1905. 







LEPIDOPTERA. 



Acidalia emutaria near Spurn : an addition to the ' List 

 of Yorkshire Lepidoptera.' — I beg to record an addition to 

 the ' List of Yorkshire Lepidoptera,' namely, Acidalia emiitariay 

 two specimens of which I took at Kilnsea, near Spurn, on 27th 

 June last, and about which there is no doubt whatever as to the 

 identification. They were flying about io'3op.m. at the Kilnsea 

 end of the ' Warren,' near the sea, where the ground is marshy, 

 with rushes growing in patches. No doubt I might have got 

 more, but did not know what I had taken at the time. — F. 

 Emsley, 107, West Street, Leeds, 2nd August 1905. 



[This is a most interesting addition to our list, but as the 

 species has already been recorded as occurring on the South 

 Lincolnshire coast its presence near Spurn is not surprising. — 

 G. T. P.] 



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