114 MR. MILLER CHRISTY ON THE 
The most striking feature of Mr. Dallman’s observations in North Wales 
seems to be the extreme fewness of the bees and other flying insects he saw 
visiting the Primrose there, as compared with the number, one sees visiting 
them elsewhere. For instance, he saw no single Hive Bee visit any Primrose 
flower (not even when flowers grew within a few yards of some hives), though 
many individuals were busy visiting other species of flower. In Sussex, 
however, Miss Bray seems to have seen bees at work in about the numbers 
usual elsewhere. Among the few day-flying insects seen by these two 
observers, but not noted by earlier observers, are :— 
Diprera. 
Hyetodesia lucorum Fln. 
Lueilia cæsar (L.). 
HYMENOPTEEA. 
Halictus leucopus Kirb., ©. 
Mr. Dallman’s extensive nocturnal observations, made with the aid of an 
electric flash-lamp, revealed no single species of flying insect as visiting the 
flowers, but showed that they are visited (or, rather, frequented) during the 
night by a remarkable number of creatures belonging to several different 
Orders, as follows :— 
ARACHNIDA. 
Trombidium ? sp. 
Meta segmentina Clk. 
COLEOPTERA. 
Adrastus limbatus Fabr. 
Barynotus obscurus Fabr. 
Epurea longula Er. 
Meligethes difficilis Sturm. 
M. erythropus Gyll. 
M. exilis Sturm. 
M. flavipes Sturm. 
M. maurus Sturm. 
M, picipes Sturm. 
M. viridescens Fabr. 
Otiorhynchus ligneus Oliv. 
O. picipes Fabr. 
Rhagonycha fuscicornis Oliv.; commoy; feeding on pollen. 
Sciaphilus muricatus Fabr. 
Tachyporus chrysomelinus (L.). 
T. hypnorum (L.). 
T. solutus Er. 
GASTROPODA. 
Helix hispida L.; feeding on the corolla. 
Helix? sp. ; ditto ditto. 
Limax agrestis L. 
Limax ? several sp. } abundant ; eating the stigma, pollen, and corolla. 
