94 the entomologist's record. 



the parts of the plant which are sacrificed to the gardener's shears. 

 I have about 50 specimens I should be glad to hand over to collectors 

 of Tortricids if they care to have them. 



OLEOPTERA. 



Coleoptera in Wales in 1906. — The following notes on some of the 

 better Coleoptera taken in Wales during September last, may, perhaps, be 

 of interest. During the first week at Abergwessin, Breconshire, fungi 

 were rather productive, a single agaric producing Gyrophaena gentilis, Er., 

 in numbers; G.nana,Hk., two or three, and G. minima,'Eti., one. Quedius 

 picipes, Man., and Choleva kirbyi, Spence, also in fungi, with all four 

 Boletobii, and other common things. Carabus arvensis, Host., running 

 over the moors in the sunshine. Liodes humeralis, Kug., and Syntomium 

 aeneum, Mull., in a rotten oak, and Sipalia ruficollis, Er., under the 

 bark of an old log. Staphylinus stercorarius, 01., on the road at 

 Llandovery. Bythinus puncticollis, Den., in moss. Philonthus puella, 

 Nor., and Megarthrus depressus, Pk., in dung, and M. sinuatocollis, Lac, 

 in fungus. Philorhinum sordidum, Steph., by sweeping. A search on 

 the banks of the Towy where I had taken Perileptus areolatus, Cr., and 

 Stenus incanus, Er., the previous year, only yielded Bembidium 

 atrocaeruleum, Steph., and Homalota cambrica, Woll. From the 8th to 

 the 15th I stayed at Llanbedr, Merioneth. On the top of Diphwys 

 (2563ft.), near here, I got one Acidota crenata, F., other species which 

 occurred were Carabus arvensis, Hbst., Pterostichus aethiops, Pz., 

 Homalota eremita, Rye, Othius melanoceplialus, Gr., 0. myrmecophUus, 

 Kies., Quedius boops, Gr., with Aphodius lapponum, Gyll., plentiful in 

 sheep-dung. Working the seaweed heaps on the shore produced 

 Homalota orbata, Er., Myrmecopora sulcata, Kies., Phytosus spini- 

 fer, Curt., P. balticus, Kr., Hetewthops binotata, Gr., Halacritus 

 punctum, Aub., and Arena octavii,* Fair. Here also Aphodius 

 nitidulus, F., turned up under dung, and A. foetens, F., on the 

 bare sand, a little above low-water. Under stones or in damp 

 sand on the Artra estuary, Amara fulva, De G., Oxypoda brachyp- 

 tera, Steph., Philonthus rernalis, Gr., Bledius opacus, Block, and 

 Phytobius 4t-tuberculatus, F., Lebia chlorocephala, Hotf., Hypera polygoni, 

 L., and Otiorhynchus ligneus, 01., on drier ground. Psylliodes marcida, 

 111., and Otiorhynchus ovatus, L., at the roots of the marram grass. 

 After working several ants' nests under stones without success, on 

 turning over one I found a group of six Atemeles emarginatus, Pk., with 

 a Myrmica, sp. Quedius auricomus, Kies, occurred in moss at the 

 Nantcol Falls, with Q. fuliginosus, Gr., and Q. nigricans, Kr. Ptero- 

 stichus oblongo-punctatus, F., Homalota linearis, Gr., and Scaphidium 

 4i-maculatum, about fallen oak-boughs in the Nantcol Woods. Bem- 

 bidium tibiale, Duft., Trechus micros, Hbst., Homalota currax, Kr., H. 

 insecta, Th., and H. parens, Er., under stones, on the banks of the 

 Artro and Nantcoll Rivers. Philonthus puella, Nor., and Aphodius 

 porcus, F., in dung. — H. G. Attle, 153, Beechcroft Road, Upper 

 Tooting. March llth, 1907. 



* This capture is of great interest, as the species has not been taken since the 

 first two British specimens were recorded by Mr. Blatch (Ent. 31o. Mag., 1892, 

 p. 160) as taken by Mr. Tait at Ilfracombe, in a dead gull, in 1891, and by himself in 

 company with Phytosus balticus on the Chesil beach in 1883. — H.St.J.D. 



