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few miles of Garve except where otherwise stated: — Oychrus rostratus, 

 L.; Carabus glabratus, Payk.; Clivina fossor, L. (common under stones 

 on Ben Wyvis) ; Bradycellus cognatus, Gyll. ; Harpalus latus, L. ; 

 Pterostichus diligens, Sturm. ; Amara aulica, Panz.; A. Uvula, F. ; A. 

 communis, Panz. (the only specimen of this is quite black with no 

 metallic reflexion); Calathus piceus, Marsh.; C. melanocephalus var. 

 nubigena, Hal.; Bembidium bruxellense, Wesm. ; 11. femoratum, Sturm.; 

 Gymindis vaporariorum , L. ; EJydroporus lepidus, 01. ; //. morio, Dej.; 

 Orectochilus villosus, Mull. ; Helophorus rugosus, 01. ; Oxypoda 

 haemorrhoa, Mann. ; 0. annularis, Sahl. ; Homalota alpestris, Heer ; 

 H. pagana, Er. ; H. xanthopus, Thorns.; H. cadaverina, Bris. ; Ischno- 

 poda coerulea, Sahl. ; Leptusa analis, Gyll. ; Bolitochara obliqua, Er. ; 

 Millennia minuta, Grav. ; Bryoporus rugipennis, Pand. (in moss, Fionn 

 Bheinn) ; Tachyporus humerosus, Fr. ; Megacronus inclindns, Grav. ; 

 Euryporus picipes, Payk. (three specimens from' moss) ; Quedius vexans, 

 Epp. (from a mole's nest) ; ( v >. xanthopus, Er. ; Q. fumatus, Steph. ; 

 Q. maurorufus, Grav.; Q. fulvicollis, Steph.; Philonthus albipes, Grav.; 

 P. umbratilis, Grav. ; Stenus geniculates, Grav. ; S. foveicotlis, Kr. ; 

 Geodromicus globulicollis, Mann. ; Lesteva sharpi, Rye ; Anthophagus 

 alpinm, Payk.; Acrulia inftata, Gyll. (on four separate occasions under 

 bark, and in fungus on birch) ; Romalium rile var. heeri, Rey ; Aniso- 

 toma punctulata, Gyll. ; Liodes glabra, Kug. ; L. castanea, Herbst ; 

 ('//■/era angustata, F.; ('. intermedia, Kr.; C longula, Kell.; C. coracina, 

 Kell. ; Neuraphes elongatulus, Mull.; Bibloporus bicolor, Denny ; Ulster 

 marginatus, Er. (from a mole's nest) ; Hhizophagus nitidulus, F. ; 

 ~Epuraea oblonga, Herbst ; Atomaria gibbula, Er. (by evening sweeping); 

 Aphodius rufescens, F.; Malthinus frontalis, Marsh.; Malthodes mysticus, 

 Kies. ; Cis boleti, Scop.; C. hispidus, Payk.; C. birfentatus, 01.; C. 

 nitidus, Herbst ; C. jacquemarti, Mell. ; G\ lineatocribratus, Mell. ; C. 

 punctulatus, Gyll. ; Longitarsus suturellus, Duft. ; Rhynchiies nanus, 

 Payk.; Otiorrhynchus maurus, Gyll.; Orchestes rusci, Herbst; 0. 

 avellanae, Don. (the form with black legs). 



Random Notes on Noctuid Moths, etc., in 1907. 



By W. J. OGDEN. 



A note on the habits of the larvae of Senta ulvae fired me with en- 

 thusiasm to find and breed the larvae, and, being down in Suffolk last 

 December, I organised a search with the Rev. A. P. Waller, in a marsh 

 where we knew the insect occurred. We found the roots of the reeds 

 sufficiently matted together to be able to walk among them with 

 tolerable comfort, and, by splitting open the old stems which had been 

 tenanted by Nonagria geminipuncta larvae, we finally managed to get 

 some 30 larvae of 8. ulvae. 



I put mine into a large pot, with about three inches of wet earth at 

 the bottom, and a number of pieces of old gnawed reed stuck into the 

 earth, and I stood the pot in a saucerful of water. I fed the larva' 

 with shreds of raw beef and baked apple, boiled pork fat, rice-pudding, 

 etc., and syringed the reeds thoroughly every three or four days (see 

 also Practical Hints for the Field Lepidopterist, pt. ii., pp. 15, 139). The 

 larvae used to come out and wander about, after being syringed, but 

 they seemed for the mosl part to keep inside the stems, even at night. 

 They grew steadily though slowly, but, from one cause or another some 



