806 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



pieces of the wood of apple, poplar, and horse-chestnut, with which they 

 were si;pplied, getting between the bark and the wood ; but the bulk took 

 to some fragments of cork, which they consolidated into a mass with 

 their spinnings. 1 however failed to get them through the winter. 

 They were orange-yellow with black warts, from each of which sprang 

 a single hair, and had brown heads, and a brown shield on the 

 second segment. The first change of skin, which took place in about 

 four weeks, showed them lighter in colour but otherwise unchanged, 

 and none survived this state. 



I have not yet had time to identify the place of capture of my 

 insects beyond this point, but the foregoing list, which contains 150 

 species for the district, 116 of which I can vouch for myself, and 69 

 of which have come from my garden, may, I believe, be thoroughly 

 relied on, as far as my own observations go, as containing nothing 

 which I have not caught in the district, and everything which I have. 



Coleoptera at Cromer and Horning. 



By E. G. ELLIMAN. 



As my visit to Cromer last summer was the second within two 

 years (having spent my summer holiday there in 1894), I did not 

 expect to return overladen with spoil, especially as I had also made 

 up my mind to take things pretty easily ; so with small ambitions, 

 and a mind prepared to be contented with small mercies, I entered 

 upon what turned out to be a most enjoyable, and not altogether 

 unprofitable, time as far as beetles were concerned. 



I have most vivid remembrances of the amount of time and toil 

 expended in a fruitless search for the very local Xcbria lirida in 1894 ; 

 last summer, however, during a short evening's stroll, I came upon two 

 fine specimens of this distinct beetle, hidden under a fisherman's 

 discarded nether garments. The somewhat equivocal methotl of 

 collecting {i.f., turning over "old Clo"), which secured for me the 

 first specimens of X. lirida, also obtains for one a large amount of 

 attention from visitors on the beach, especially when the performance 

 takes place about midway up the clift', as it did in my case ; but this 

 chance capture gave me the clue to the head-quarters of the species. 



The Bemhidia abounded at this spot ; they were for the most part 

 anijlicanmn, a species of which I only took two specimens in 1894, 

 and these might possibly have remained unidentified had not my 

 friend Mr. Newbery called my attention to the fact that the species 

 had been taken at Cromer before. In'mhidium aj/ijie (1) and a few 

 B. lunatum were keeping 7>. anjilicamun company. Tachi/jius pallipes 

 was also common here. I did not allow many spikes of either JU'.seda 

 lutea or U. hitcula to remain uninspected, and a small series of 

 CeutliorrJii/nchus irscdac was the result. C. cyanijifutiis and C. 

 picitarsis (1) occurred on the same plants ; these two species would thus 

 appear to be indifferent as to whether they feed on plants of the 

 Hfsfdarrae or the closely allied Cnicifcrae, which latter order they 

 usually affect. On examining the Blcdii occurring on the sandy 

 spots on the cliffs, 1 found B. pallipes the most abundant. B>. ojiaciis 

 came next in point of numbers, and 2 B. crassicollia, and in company 

 with them plenty of Dijschirim thoracicJis and U etc race rus inanjinatus. 

 Whilst poking the sand about, hunting up the Bledri, I stirred up a 

 couple of Awara fulca. 



