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G. tessellatus (usually broken) and G. quercus ; Elater nigrinus and 

 halteatus, and Sericosomus brunneus coming rather freely from young 

 birches, and the large GratonycTius castanipes reposing in the rotten 

 layers under bark Turning over stones on a sandy spit at the shore 

 of the Loch, disi;overed the jerking little Cryptohypnus dermestoides in 

 plenty, accompanied, though very rarely, by the larger maritimus, which 

 (and especially the male) seems to delight in basking on the tops of 

 stones, in the hot sun, and runs with great quickness. 



The Malacodermi were largely represented ; Atopa (nearly 

 black) j Helodes marginata, in all degrees of suffusion, and chiefly on 

 Galtha ; Gyplion coarctatus, variabilis, pallidulus, and padi, — the penul- 

 timate by beating sallows, and the last from the firs ; Telepliorus 

 ohscurus, discoideus, elongatus, jyaludosus, limbatus, Thorns., and testaceus 

 (= ochropus, Step., whether a distinct species or no) being all more 



or less common ; the fom* latter, with the 21* sp. ? of Wat. Cat. 



(and which is certainly not T. assimilis, Pk.), being obtained by 

 sweeping in very wet places, among SpJiagnum and the sweet bog- 

 myrtle. Under fir-trees, three or four species of Malthodes, yet 

 unexamined, were found ; one, very small, being possibly distinct from 

 hrevicollis; and if so, new to us. Dictyopterus Aurora (with an occasional 

 Glerus formicarius) was in numbers, either crawling on the lower sides 

 of cut logs, or sluggishly in cop. among the pine chips beneath them ; 

 twice, also, this lovely insect was taken flying in the forest, towards 

 evening. Pytho was only just out, but its larvae were not rare under 

 bark. 



A single specimen of Orchesia minor was beaten from the flowers 

 of the mountain-ash. Thomson's description of Glinocara tetratoma 

 accords very well with this insect ; so that his trivial name will pro- 

 bably have to be suppressed, in favour of the well-known and older 

 appellation, minor, "Walker. 



In hard Boleti among birch-trees, on Cross Craig, the recently- 

 detected Gis lineato-cribratus was not uncommon ; and the neat round 

 drills of Hyleccstus in the solid fir-wood Avere often seen, but only 

 twice was the beetle-tenant discovered, in spite of the help of a 

 woodman's axe. 



The Rhynchophoray^evQ chiefly represented by Sylohius and Pissodes 

 pini which (with their larvse, and the pupae of the latter) occurred on 

 every felled stump ; OfiorJiynchus being the only other prevalent genus, 

 of which maurus was found under stones on the hill-sides, in moss, and 

 crawling on the road ; rvgifrons and monticola occurred under stones 

 on the layer of turf topping stone walls, and septentrionis was beaten 



