Last montli I took a short trip to the Cliamu'l Islands, and was struck by the 

 great abundance, in all the Islands visited, of i'ararge /Kr/eria, which, at that 

 season, was by far the most common butterfly. I am aware there arc exceptions, but 

 in Britain, as a rule, we are accustomed to associate the insect with rides and 

 pathways in woods, often in the densest parts, whence its English name, "The 

 Speckled Wood." Whatever there may have been at one time in the Channel 

 Islands, there is now no approach to the semblance of a " wood " in the ordinary 

 English application of the term, though the slopiiig sides of some of the beautiful, 

 but short, deep valleys are thickly wooded. But P. Jigeria is found in great 

 numbers in all the innumerable roads and lanes which intersect the open country in 

 the principal Islands. In fact, its habits there are precisely those of its congeners, 

 P. Hegara and Tlthonus. I am assured that in certain parts of England the insect 

 has similar habits, but we commonly, and rightly, associate it with woods. 



This reminds me of a parallel case in the opposite direction. In this country 

 we usually associate Satyrus Semele with open, often treeless, rocky places, downs, 

 and heaths. In August, 1864, I made what was practically my first entomological 

 excursion on the continent, and visited the Forest of Fontainebleau under the guidance 

 of a veteran French Lepidopterist (now no more), who then resided in the town of 

 that name. In the densest and darkest parts of the Forest S. Semele was to be seen 

 in abundance feeding at the exuding sap of huge trees, in company with several other 

 non-Britisli Satyridce, and Catocala promissa or sponsa, or both. This was a reve- 

 lation to me, and quite upset my insular ideas. — R. McLachlan, Lewisham, Lon- 

 don : October 26th, 1891. 



Coleoptera from South Wales. — During the month of September I have been 

 collecting Coleoptera in the neighbourhood of Llantrissant, S. Wales. I have 

 chiefly collected in the river Ely, and the adjoining fields. I have only found time 

 to identify a portion of the insects taken by me. Those identified include the 

 following: — Notiophilus palustris, Bembidium decorum, pttnctulatum, rufescens, 

 tibials, atrocoeruleum, femoratum, and littorale, in the dry river bed ; P. quadri- 

 maculatum, in logs, &c. ; Deronectes latus and \2-ptistulatus ; Ccelambus versicolor; 

 Hydroporus rivalis, septentrional is, and lepidus — the latter in great numbers in a 

 pond close to the river; Limnebius truncatellus and nitidus ; Hydrcena gracilis, 

 nigrita, and pygma:a ; Henicocerus exsculptus ; Megacronus cingulatus ; Quedins 

 cruentus ; Habrocerus capillar ico mis ; Olhius myrmecophiius ; Latkrobium multi- 

 punctuni ; Stenus cicindetoides and gutlula ; Prognatha quadricorne ; Cephennium 

 ihoracicum; Cryptarcha strigata ; Diphyllus lunatus ; Liturgus bifasciatus ; An- 

 therophagus pallens; Endomychus coccineus; Georyssus pygmceas — my first specimen 

 of this insect was taken in the pond after heavy rain ; I subsequently found it in 

 some numbers at one spot on the shelving sandy bank ; the beetles seemed to prefer 

 places wliere the bank was vertical for a few inches, they were climbing up and 

 down these diminutive cliffs with their sandy coatings looking like little grains of 

 sand. Elmis anetis,parallelopipedus,&\\i. J'olkmari ; Limnius tuberculatus ; Pota- 

 minus substrialus — I took two specimens of this insect in scum, leaves, sticks, &e., 

 collected by the river, and held by a tree which had fallen across the stream ; this 

 scum seemed very attractive to a large number of beetles and flies, when the sun 



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