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and putridus, Sphacridiwii. scarahacoides and bipUstidatHs, and would 

 doubtless have been joined later by Nitidida 'i-iymtidata, and the 

 maritime species of Saprimis. 



A note or two upon other Coleoptera generally found in similar 

 situations may not be out of place, while writing of the sand-hills. It 

 is most interesting to notice that, although the sea is now nearly fifty 

 miles away, familiar sea-side beetles continue to breed in the sand- 

 hills which mark the erstAvhile coast-line, at Brandon, in north-west 

 Sutiblk. Here ]Jivsrns n'phalotes, Cncorhinus ijcminatm and (Jri/pticus 

 ijnixiiitilitis still flourish, and Harpalus anxiu^i, some still immature, are 

 common under stones in September. Calathus fmcus, fiaripe-'i, and 

 Ainara fidra Sbve abundant; Hi/pera fascicidata occurs very sparingly 

 beneath Emdinm, and Sitancf; uriscus may still occasionally be swept. 

 The Eastern counties are very rich in what were once coast-lines, but 

 from which the sea has long receded, and which it has left high and 

 dry with their complement of I'aJdle, Arenaria, OiioHis, and other 

 plants that love a light soil. Here Curtis took Microzowii tihiale, at 

 Southwold, in abundance, and many good things are continually met 

 with. 



Anthocdiuus fasciatHs, which occurred to me on the sand-hills at 

 Felixtowe this year, is a somewhat unlooked for species in such a 

 situation, since its larva lives in the nests of certain species of Crabro, 

 or solitary wasps, in their borings in old posts. At Southwold, 

 VncorJiinm e.raratus, OliMhopm rotundatm, and many other species are 

 common on the cliffs, or rather at their base, Avhich is remarkable 

 from the fact that at high tide the sea washes quite up, rendering it 

 impossible for one to pass along the shore, and the insects must con- 

 sequently often become submerged, which proceeding, although 

 natural enough in the economy of Aepus, and probably also of Pof/oiuis, 

 one hardly supposes is as congenial to the tastes of Amara and its 

 confreres. Under a piece of stranded timber, probably part of the 

 debris of some ill-fated ship on the beach, I once took HelnpJionis 

 ruf/osuii, congregated in great numbers, but the insects were difficult to 

 distinguish from the small pebbles surrounding them ; so abundant 

 were they under this one piece of timber (the only one of the kind, 

 unfortunately), that I secured some sixty specimens in half an hour or 

 so, at the above locality. Near Kessingland, and in most sandy places, 

 Apion ononis is abundant upon its particular pabulum, and Crijpto- 

 ccphalus minutus connnon on ragwort flowers. A very great number of 

 species might be enumerated, either especially addicted to sand-hills 

 and their vicinity, or occurring there in greater numbers than else- 

 where, but the above will show that the most barren places, in the 

 usual acceptance of the term, are often rich in insect fauna. 



On a small collection of Lepidoptera made in the neighbourhood 

 of Aix=les=Bains. 



By J. W. TUTT, F.E S. 



I have before described the locality of Gresy-sur-Aix, in Ent. Rec, 

 vol. v., pp. 109-172. On that occasion I spent a few days there 

 towards the end of August. This year I was a month earlier, and 

 spent the two days, July 25th and 26th, collecting there. The 



