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Peewits, larks, and pied wagtails were everywhere. The common- 

 est plants were stunted Epilobmm, Mentha, Galium palustre, Spar- 

 ganiivm ramosvm, common dock, Plantago lanceolata, Potamogeton, 

 Myosotis palustris, ScropJiularia, a lot of (doubtless) imported creeping 

 thistles and a few clumps of imported nettles. On these and the 

 cattle-droppings Scatophaga stercoraria swarmed ; and some assiduous 

 sweeping in the dykes was productive only of such ubiquitous things as 

 Xantholinus linearis, Apion radiolus, Coccinella 19-punctata, Aphthona 

 nonstriata, Telmatophilus ca/ricis, and Thyamis lurida ; Anthocoris 

 aylvestris, Philaenus spumarius, Tettigonia viridis, and Cicadula sex- 

 notata ; Phygadeuon fumator and Promethus sulcator ; Limnophilus 

 lunatas ; Opomyza germinationis, Lonchoptera lacustris, Limnia un- 

 guicornis, Seiara thomse, Spilogaster communis, Norellia spinimana, 

 Elgiva rufa, and E. lineata ; none of which, I fancy, are the associates 

 of our Carabus on his Irish mountains ! 



It is, indeed, a dreary and desolate spot, but two feet above sea- 

 level ; a natter and more man-forsaken one could only be found in 

 Holland, and one less likely to be favoured by Carabus clatliratus can 

 nowhere be imagined, productive only of a few cattle, the windmills 

 and its everlasting wind, now balmy and tempered by the autumn 

 sunshine, but in winter roaring across these flats with icy vehemence. 



Monk Soham House, Suffolk : 

 December, 1913. 



A NEW SPECIES OF HELOPHORUS. 



BY D. SHARP, M.A., F.R.S. 



Helophorus ytenensis, sp. n. 



Minutus, convexus, niger, capite thoraceque metallicis, palpis, antennarum basi 

 pedibusque testaceis, palporum tarsorumque articulis tenninalibus apicem versus, 

 nigricantibus ; thorace fortiter granuloso, stdcis avgustis ; elytris sordide testaceis, 

 vage parceque nigro-maculatis, profunde fortiterque punctato-striatis, interstitiis 

 angustis, pequalibus ; alls latis sed abbreviates. Long., 2\ mm. 



This species is extremely similar to H. granulans, but is readily 

 distinguished from it, and from all other species of the genus yet 

 known by the peculiar wings. 



In Britain the species appears to be much less rare than H. granu- 

 laris. I first met with it at Cairn Water, Dumfries-shire, in April, 

 1869, and have always considered the single example then found to be 



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