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the net, with legs and antenn* folded close to the body, to the buds 

 of the birch which fell with them into the beating-net ; it was almost 

 impossible to distinguish them until they began to move. 



On Saturday, June 6th, I paid a long meditated visit, with Mr. 

 Black, to Aberlady, mainly in quest of TdeplioniK ilayirinianits, Shp.; 

 we were fortunate, and soon after arrival on the ground the first 

 specimen was taken, and, thereafter, we each secured a good series ; they 

 were found beneath seaweed mostly, just about high-water mark, but, 

 later in the day, the hot sun brought them out into the open, and we 

 found a good many running and Hying about the grass at the edge of 

 the sandhills. The whole life-history of this insect is very curious 

 and interesting. Under the same seaweed we secured the usual sea- 

 .side beetles, such as ( 'en-i/on ilcprcKsus, Steph.; A/eor/iara ohsrKrdla, 

 Gr.; IloiiialiiDii riparimn, Th.; llt'terotJtojix hinotata, Steph., &c.; and 

 running on the sand Jllecliua fiiftcipcs, Rye, with Di/srliirius t/ionicicnx, 

 Rossi. While taking our lunch on the sandhills a specimen of Tdf- 

 phonif; fascus, L,, Hew on to Mr. Black ; this is a very interesting 

 capture, as Canon Fowler says its occurrence in Scotland is very 

 doubtful, though Murray records it. Walking on the dry sand in the 

 barren sandhills, which fringe a portion of the golf links, I found 

 Mori/chus aeneiis, F., and several specimens of the variety of Coccindla 

 11-punctafa, L., with confluent apical spots, which has been recorded 

 already from similar localities in Scotland and Ireland. Before 

 returning to the railway station, I swept a number of plants of Sisi/ni- 

 briiini o[licinal(', and secured a long series of ('ciitlior/ij/iir/iidins pi/r<i- 

 ri/nrJiHn, Marsh., which Canon Fowler says occurs in Scotland only 

 very rarely in the Solway district. It was in numbers, and with it 

 there were ('. jinralis,Fk., Centlinyliiinclms i/iKoJridt'ns, Pz., (^. assimilis, 

 Pk., < '. (ontroctiis, Marsh., ttc. 



My record closes with the capture on the afternoon of June 13th 

 of Deli p/i noil U'ctnin, Pk., a nice series, in sheep-droppings on the 

 Pentland Hills ; it was very scarce, and required a long search to 

 secure a series ; with it Aplwdlus lapi>onHin, Gyll., A. ater, De G., A. 

 (lepressiis, Kug., A. piitn'diis, Cr., and many species of ( 'erci/on occurred 

 in great profusion. — (Professor) T. Hudson Beare, B.Sc, Regent 

 Terrace, Edinburgh. Jmic loth, 1908. 



:i^OTES ON LIFE-HISTORIES, LARY^, &c. 



Pupa of Epinephele pasiphae. — Length 12mm., antero-posterior 

 width f5mm. at mid-mesothorax and at metathorax, and nearly 6mm. at 

 3rd abdominal ; lateral measure from wing-spines to 3rd abdominal 

 uniformly 5mm. 



