50 (August, 



dung ; Antholium minutum plentifully, by sweeping in wet places ; and 

 Phloeocharis subtilissima under bark. Of the Necrophaga we found Necro- 

 pliorus ruspator in a dead rabbit, one moderately small male having the 

 clypeal impression and reflected hind trochanters intermediate between 

 the type form and var. microceplialus, Thoms. ; Spihcerites glabratus (in a 

 dry dead sheep, almost at the top of Cross-Craig ; and part of a specimen 

 in cow-dung in the forest) ; Anisotoma duhia and ovalis, only mentioned 

 for their queer localities, the former being under a stone at the banks 

 of the Loch, and the latter in running water, both " flukes," of course ; 

 Liodes glabra in little families, often 20 at a time, in and about the 

 black powdery residuum of fungus on old stumps, and (more sparingly) 

 in the decayed damp black mould under bark ; L. castanea, rarely accom- 

 panying ^^Za&ro, but oftener found with humeralis, in wet leaves and 

 fungoid growth under felled logs ; AgatJiidium nigrinum and rotundatum 

 in bark mould ; Omosita depressa in dead rabbit ; Epurcoa angustula, 

 Erichs. (in Germ. Zeits., f. d. Ent., IV., 270, 16), under fir-bark at Dall 

 — new to Britain, and whose narrow parallel form, dark colour, and 

 posteriorly almost right-angled thorax, readily distinguish it from its 

 allies ; Ips quadripustulata, not uncommon on freshly cut stumps, 

 especially burrowing in the join of the bark and wood ; Atomaria 

 Sislopi in roe and cow-dung, local, but usually in groups of 3 or 4 

 when found; two species of Cerylon; and Morychus ceneus very 

 sparingly, under stones on the sandy bank of a mountain stream. 



In the Philhydrida, Elmis was represented by the pigmy paral- 

 lelopipedus and voluminous Volkmari, accompanied by Sy drama gracilis, 

 Parnus auriculatus, &c. The lowland streams, however, must be more 

 congenial to these insects ; for, in a small burn running into the Firth 

 near Aberlady, we found the rough stones at a little waterfall tenanted 

 on their under-surface by hundreds of Elmis sub-violaceus and <sneus, 

 with many cupreus, a few Volkmari, and several Limnius. 



Of the Lamellicornes we took Cetonia cBnea flying (the thistles not 

 being in bloom) ; Apliodius Lapponum (if our Lapponum be Lapponum j 

 at all) of all sizes and colours, and in great numbers, in dung, with 

 depresius and putridus ; JEgialia sdbuleti in a sand-pit, and Sinodendrum 

 in old birch. 



Several of the Elateridce were plentiful ; Diacanthus impressus, 

 especially, occurring on the boughs of fir-trees, under rotten fir-bark, 

 on freshly-cut stumps, and flying in the hot sunshine ; Corymbites 

 cuprous (the semi-testaceous variety and the sedentary female being 

 uncommon) was most abundant, being on the wing every day, and often 

 settling on fern tops ; whilst sweeping in damp i>laces produced 



