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nearly so favourite a foodplant of A. crataei/i as the various pomaceous 

 Bosaceae (Pyrus, Crataegus, etc.). I have, however, seen none on any 

 pear-trees, some nests on one turned out to be Porthesia chrysorrhoea. 

 A little amelanchier tree, a tree not very common here, of which the 

 buds were just beginning to break, had a number of nests with larvae 

 not half-an-inch long, so many that the survival of any considerable 

 proportion of them must tend to their general starvation. I also found 

 half-a-dozen larvae of Crinopterysc familiella at a spot where they had 

 obviously been fairly numerous very recently. It would usually be 

 difficult to find one after the middle of February. 



March 26th. — I have been noting the conditions of existence of 

 Lozopera deaurana. It is really scarce, as it is difficult to find the dead 

 stems of Smyrnium in which the pupae are. The plant is abundant 

 enough, but the dead plants appear to be such ideal firelighting 

 material, that they are very strictly collected for that purpose, and not 

 one in a hundred that the growing plants declare must have existed 

 can be found. It is astonishing that the species can survive when so 

 large a holocaust is annually levied. One would hardly expect the few 

 moths that came through could lay eggs enough to supply all the 

 plants with larva?, yet this must nearly be so, as almost all suitable stems 

 that remain contain pupae, though certainly not always. The human 

 element of destruction is, no doubt, also helpful in making the plant 

 grow, as it seems to affect human vicinity. A small ant is also 

 destructive, using the holes of the larvae to reach the hollows of the 

 stems, probably, however, they are most destructive to larvae whose 

 habitations are defective and these are usually, more often than not, 

 ichneumoned. The ant may then be, after all, more helpful than 

 destructive. It may be remembered that the use of the stems as 

 firewood was extremely destructive to this species at the He Ste. 

 Marguerite, near Cannes. 



Rare and local species of Coleoptera taken in Cumberland. 



By H. BRITTEN. 

 The following species taken in Cumberland are described as very 

 rare by Fowler in his British Coleoptera, or as not occurring in the 

 north of England : — Notiophilus quadriguttatus, Dej., one specimen 

 with two pores on the left elytron and only one on the right ; 

 Dyschirius politus, Dej., one specimen in Baron Wood, May 21st, 

 1902 ; Miscodera arctica, Payk., local on Wan Fell and Cross Fell, 

 beneath stones; Pterostichus lepidus, F., very local, on Wan Fell; 

 Amara patricia, Duft., one specimen on Wan Fell ; Bembidium nigri- 

 corne, Gyll., abundant on sheep tracks on heaths, Wan Fell and 

 Cumrew Fell ; Trechus discus, F., two specimens taken on the banks of 

 the Eden, August 2nd, 1900 ; Hydroporus incognitus, Sharp, very 

 local in one mossy hole on Wan Fell, abundant March 23rd, 1902 ; 

 H. ferrugineus, Steph., taken in a drain, Great Salkeld, May 19th, 

 1901, specimens are taken nearly every year at the mouth of this 

 drain ; H. obsoletus, Aube., rare in flood refuse, Great Salkeld ; 

 Platambus maculatus, L., ab. immaculatus, Donis., abundant in Lake 

 Ulleswater, unaccompanied by the type ; H yd robins fuscipes, L., var. 

 aeneus, Sol., three specimens taken at Burgh-on-Sands, April 5th, 

 1902 ; Aleochara eitniculoriu)), Kraatz., common in rabbit-burrows ; 



