[January, 



These nests were sent to me in a bas from the outlying islet Annet 

 La consisted only ot dry earth. The flea and its larv» were very 

 !ln. b.t onlya f- >v dead beetles were found. Since then have 

 obtained a sacktuU of cor.norants' and ..-'1^' /-t;*™" '^' ^^-^j 

 and a large bag ot moss, haystack refuse, &c., from Tresco. I -nte.d 

 publishing the result of the examination of these two sacks ,n another 

 paper on the CoUofter. ot the Scilly Isles, but it is worth ment.on.ng 

 h^re thit 1 found I them 110 species of beetles, ot wh.ch « are new 

 to the Scilly list, one being new to Britam. f„j|„rf;„„ 



I am not sure that I can claim Ihat th.s method of col eet „g 

 Coleoftera is entirely new, as Capta.n Deville te Is me he ha 

 employed it when studying the beetles of Cors.ca. but had g,ve up 

 on account of the expense. However, I have on J -ecently he d ot 

 his experience, and do uot think it has been before employ dm 

 England. The chief difficulty I have found has been '» -en to h 

 keepers the exact kind of moss, &c., wanted, and one often gets ,t sent 

 i^l too dry or too wet It is certainly a method not to be esp.sed 

 for studying the beetle.fauna ot distant islands, and I th.nk it would 

 be a „.c> better plan to ge, a non-entomological friend, who happens 

 to be visiting one of ihese places, to send a sack »f moss, grass, *c 

 than to get him to pick „p a few large O^M, &c., and put them ,n a 

 ig Wtle, as is generally done. I have published t e resul of the 

 am nation f my flr.t two sackfulls from St. Kilda already Anna 

 s" ttish Nat, Hist., Jan. 1903), and this list includes such small 

 species as Or<J»p«-» »^»»»«, GylU «"<! ^"y'-'- «.»i.^»*, Ke.ch., 

 which certainly would not be obtained by any one but a specahst. 

 CoUofUr. from moss taken from Scotch mountams. 

 Ben Wyvis, Ross., 3V60 ft., June U.h. 1908. A large sackfull, 



much of it very suitable moss. 



I ,, 7 ,„ Mnv^h 1- Homalota tibialis, Heer, many; U. 



eremita, Rye. 2 ; Myeetoporus '-"''-^; J^^^^^ J^ Zanocepkalus, Qra.., several ; 

 Stems impress^, aerm., 3 ; -S. mfidiuscuiu., i , , .ousimlle, 



Leste.a .ules.ens, Mann., many; ^^^^^^ :^ZX'^^^o^^^^- 

 Gyll., I (I Helieve this has only once been recorded .nice Ui . bnari 

 tures) ; Arpedium brachypterum, Grav., many. 



Moruisg, lloss., 3026 ft., June 15th, 1908. Mostly Spl,J,c,n. 

 I have some doubt as to whether this really can,e from near the top 

 of the mountain. 



* Ent. Mo. Mag.,ix, p. 158 (1873). 



