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which are very curious and interesting. The \} lays little bunches of from 5 to 25 

 eggs on the birch leaves ; each egg is covered with a case which the " constructs 

 from her excrement, rolling it I'ound the egg with her hind tarsi. Each egg is con- 

 nected with tlie rest and with the leaf by a long thin thread. I was fortunate 

 enough to observe a '^ ovipositing in nature on the 31st ; some of these eggs have 

 only just hatched yesterday, July 7lh. The newly hatched larva very much re- 

 sembles that of Clythra. The abdominal segments are bent forward, the legs are 

 long, and the head broad. The body is of a dirty yellowish-white, and the head 

 dark brown. The two-jointed antennse are short, and the tarsi are represented by 

 a claw. The iiead is furnished with a few long hairs. The little larva remains 

 inside the egg-case, which it breaks off from the rest, and looks a very curious 

 object walking rapidly along with the case sticking up as if the larva was in a tub 

 turned upside down. 



Other beetles taken worth noting arc — StajihylinusfiiJi)ipes, a fine specimen of 

 which was captured running in a ditch. Lebia chlorocephala was swept, as were 

 also Saprintix vlrescens and Mordellistena ahdominalis ^ . Several specimens of 

 Trachyx minuia were beaten from sallows. Tanymechus paUiatus occurred on 

 thistles, Malachius ceneus was not uncommon in flowers. A specimen of Amphicyllus 

 fflobits was swept. Other species I have taken at Pamber are— Phytoecia cylindrica, 

 Ceuthorrhynchiis asperifoliaruin and campestris, Epurcea melina, Sibinia potentillcB, 

 Brachytarsus varius and Balaninus tesellatus by sweeping and beating. Dermestes 

 murinus is very common on carrion, and Coccinella distincta occurs with the usual 

 other Myrmecophilous Coleoptera in the nests of Formica rufa, of which there were 

 very many. — Horace Donisthokpe : July, 1903. 



Coleoptera at Newtonmore. — I had a few days' collecting with my fi'iend Mr. 

 J. E. Black on Speyside, near Newtonmore, from June 15th to 24lh. I was only 

 able to stay for a couple of days, both of them miserably cold, and wet at times, 

 but Mr. Black, who remained on for another week, was more fortunate, as the 

 weather improved greatly, with the result that he was able to take several species 

 which we had worked for in vain when I was with him. 



I have now had an opportunity of going over the whole of the captures, and 

 as this higher part of tlie Spey valley has probably not been worked sj'slcmatically 

 before for Coleoptera, I append a complete list of the beetles taken. Practically 

 all the places we worked were above the 1000 foot contour line. 



In the Adephaga we secured the following: — Cicindela campestrix, Jj.; Elaphrus 

 uliginoxus, F. ; E. riparlus, L. ; Cychrus rostratus, L. ; Carabus violaceux, L. (a 

 very fine specimen) ; C arvenxis, Hbst. ; Dyschirius glohoxux, Hbst. ; Cymindis 

 vaporariorum, L. (fairly common under stones lying in the heather) ; Mixcodera 

 arctica, I'k. (under stones by the side of a sandy stone crossing a grouse moor) ; 

 Calalhus micropleriix, Duft. ; I'terostichus oblongo-puiictatiis, V. ; P. vitreus, 

 Steph. ; Amarn acuminata, Pk. We only devoted a very short time to the water 

 beetles, so in this family our take was very scanty, and included — Hydroporux 

 erythrocephalus, L. ; Agabux Sturmi, Schon. ; A. bipustulalus, L. ; Rhantus bistrl- 

 atus, Berg. ; Dytiscus marginalix, L. ; and Qyrintis opaciix, Sahl. In the Htaphy- 

 ^jwjrfff there were several very interesting captures — Leptu.sa aiialis, Gyll. ; Mega- 

 cronus cingulatus, Man. ; Bolitobius atricapillus, F. ; Tachinus laticoUis, Gr. ; 



