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B. subterraneus, in damp sand on the banks of the river ; Gabrius 

 appendicalatus [^) and Honialiuw bieviconie, under bark; H. brevicolle, 

 in carrion, this species has only been taken at Great Salkeld (Britten), 

 and Rannoch and Thornhill (Dr. Sharp) before ; Acrulia iujiata, in 

 fungus and under bark of birch logs ; Anathidiam atrmn, in sand-pit ; 

 A. seminnlum, A. rotundatnm, Liodes (jlabra, and L. castanea, at fungus 

 on fir stumps ; Choleva vwrio, C. Jdrbi/i, and C. coracina, in carrion ; 

 Sphaerites (jlabratus, in sand-pit ; Coccinella 5-punctata, at roots of 

 Lotus on shingle ; Epuraea silaeea, common on fungus on birch ; 

 Dendrophaifns crenatus, under bark of fir and alder, I also bred 

 a number of specimens from the larva?, which I took home with me ; 

 Cnjptophagus cylindnts, under birch bark ; Morijchus aeneus, under 

 stones; Thywalus limbatns, under bark and on fungus; ramus ernesti, 

 under stones on river bank ; Cetonia jioricola I have bred in my 

 F. rufa nest at home from larvae taken in a nest of that ant at Nethy 

 Bridge; Cryptohypnus riparius, C. den)iestoides,a,ndi C. 4-yuttatus,\iindiev 

 stones, etc. ; Mr, King took a specimen of C. maritimus ; Elater 

 niyrinus, beating young firs; Erus aurora, in sand-pit, etc. ; Iihayonycha 

 elonyata, beating young firs ; Cis punctulatus, common under fir bark; 

 CriocepJialus rusticus I found in abundance, pupae and perfect insects, 

 in the very hard wood of burnt standing pines, in the spot where 

 Prof. Beare and I found the larvae over two years ago, when we first 

 visited Nethy Bridge, it is far from the place where Mr. Bishop and 

 Dr. Sharp took it ; Pachyta se.r-)iiaculata, I dug two beautiful speci- 

 mens ( $ s) out of a fir stump; Leptnra sanyuinolenta, after I left 

 (I left Nethy Bridge on June 26th) Mr. King found two specimens in 

 a little sand-pit, where I had set traps for beetles ; Acantlioeinus aedilis 

 I have bred out of Scots fir bark, brought home from Nethy Bridge ; 

 Tetratoma ancora, common under fir bark and in fungus on alders ; 

 Clinocara tetratoma, by beating; Abdera triyiittata, abundant under the 

 bark of burnt firs ; A. Jiexuosa, numerous in fungus on alders ; Zilora 

 ferruyinea, in several localities under fir bark ; Anaspis Iiudsoni {2 ), 

 bred from the inner bark of fir brought here with the larvse of 

 Dendropliayus ; Otiorhynchus septentrionis, Pissodes notatus, P. pineti, 

 and Maydalis phleymatica, beating fir tops, etc. I must take this 

 opportunity to thank Mr. Bishop for his kindness and help, which 

 made this very pleasant excursion still more enjoyable. 



A Month in Switzerland and elsewhere. 



By GEORGE WHEELER, M.A., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 

 (Continued from page 300.) 

 (v.) EcLiiPENS. — The possession of abomiewent general tickets 

 decided us to run up for a couple of nights to Bale before going east- 

 wards, so as to get a day at Hinterzarten, in the Black Forest, and 

 incidentally a short time at Eclepens on the way. The day, July 3rd, 

 was happily fine, but I found it was only possible to get a couple of 

 hours between the trains ; still, I succeeded both in getting to the 

 upper road and in searching the flowers of the Sambucns ebulus near 

 the station. Eclepens, however, was no exception to the rule of 

 scarcity this year ; only two species were really common, Melanargia 

 galatea and Epinephele jurtina. Even Coenonympha paiiiphilus was by 

 no means as common as usual, and I hardly think I saw more than 



