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possibilities of MerioneLlisliire as an Euloiiiologie-al liunling ground are certainly 

 great. I sliall probably give a lull account oi' the results of my collecting there 

 when I have had time to work out the large amount of material brought home. — 

 Kenneth J. Morton, 13, Blackford Road, Edinburgh : August 'ird, 1901. 



Culeoptera in North Wales. — During the whole of the mo))th of June I was 

 in North Wales, and although the weather was not very favourable for collecting, I 

 met with a few Coleoptera which seem worthy of mention. 



At Tan-y-bwlch, in the Festiniog Valley, I got Gyrinas miiiutus and Hydropo- 

 rus \2i-pustulatxcs by fishing in the ditches, while Ayabus nitidus was tolerably 

 common under stones in the streamlets on tiie hill-sides. A dusty fungus on a dead 

 pine produced thirteen Conipora orbiculata, while under the bark of the same tree 

 were Scydmanius elongatulus and Agathidium atrum. Among my other captures 

 in the same neighbourhood were Silpha thoracica ; Antkobium sorbi (common in 

 one small spot on the hills) ; Corymbltes impressus; Lacoii miirinus; Athous vittatus ; 

 Helodes marginata ; Telephorus alpinus, abdomlnalis and Jtavilabris ; Malthodes 

 mysticus ; Apion scutellare ; Liopus nebulosus ; Strangalia melanura ; Clythra 

 4-punctata, and Batop>hila rubl. Phyllopertha horticola was in extreme abundance 

 (I might have taken hundreds of thousands), and was followed later on by Hoplla 

 philanthus in lesser numbers, but still in profusion. And the males of Lampyris 

 iioctiluca simply besieged my bedroom as long as the candles were lighted, even 

 foi'cing their way through the cracks in the window frame. I took ten specimens 

 in about three minutes on one occasion, and then watched their pale phosphorescent 

 lamps darting to and fro above me as I lay awake in bed. 



On Snowdon, on June 27th, Miscodera arctiva was plentiful under stones near 

 the summit, together with Geodromictis glohuUooUis, Otiorrhynchus mauriis, Pteros- 

 tichus vitreus, and a solitary Acidota crenata. Nehria Oyllenhali, Aphodius 

 lapponum, and the usual mountain things were abundant. Two rather curious 

 captures were a single Lina cenea ci'awling on the grass within a hundred feet of 

 the summit, and a specimen of Salpiiigus ceratus under a stone close by. Chryso- 

 mela cerealis I did not succeed in finding. 



On the Harlech sand-hills, early in July, Saprinus 4-striatus was tolerably 

 plentiful, with Cicindela maritima, Aphodius nitldiilus, Otiorrhynchus atroapterus 

 and muscorum, Aiiomala Frlschi, Corymbites ceneus, and a single Lebia chlorocephala. 

 Nacerdes melanure was flying in the hot sun on tlie beach at Barmouth. — Theouoke 

 Wood, 157, Trinity Road, Upper Tooting, S.W. : August 14th, 1901. 



Dryophilus pusillus, GylL, in Cumberland. — Dr. Bailey's note in the July No. 

 of this Magazine {ante p. 171) recalled to my mind that I had captured a male and 

 female of this species last summer by evening sweeping in the Petteril Valley, about 

 four miles to the south of Carlisle. On June 29th last I visited the locality again 

 to try for more, and after a little work found it in fair numbers by beating tlie 

 lower branches of some old well grown larches. In that particular part of the 

 valley there is neither spruce nor Scotch fir. Of the thirty odd specimens I have 

 set, all but one are females, but it is possible I was too late for the males. I am not 

 aware of this species being recorded from the nortli of England before. — Frank H. 

 Day, 6, Currock Terrace, Carlisle : July 2nd, 1901. 



