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separated habitats, Japan and the mountains of Scotland and Silesia ; it may be 

 taken for nearly certain, therefore, that Eiidectus will be discovered in Siberia, and 

 if so, I expect that all three forms will be connected. 



Herr Weisc made a journey from Berlin to Glatz to find E. Giraudi, and se- 

 cured nearly a dozen examples ; he informs me that it is a bark insect like Coryphium, 

 whereas E. Whitei was found under a stone on the summit of a high mountain, but 

 has not again been met with. Probably a Coleopterist working the old trees at the 

 foot of Ben a Bhuird or other of the high mountains in the heart of the Grampians 

 may be fortunate enough to meet with it. — D. Shakp, Southampton : January, 1887. 



Chrysomela cerealis, Sec, on Siiowdon. — Ever since reading the record of the 

 capture of Chrysomela cerealis on Snowdon by Mr. Champion (Ent. Mo. Mag., Sept., 

 1875) I have had a great desire to find this beautiful species in its habitat. Not 

 until last summer, however, had T the opportunity of putting my desire into effect, 

 and even then I felt that a journey to Snowdon for cerealis in August was a 

 mistake. Nevertheless, by dint of most persistent work, my friend Mr. Wilding was 

 at last successful in finding two specimens (either under one stone, or under two 

 stones very close together), but though we searched most energetically, these were 

 all that could be found. This year I made up my mind to spend a holiday on 

 Snowdon in June, the time when the insect was taken by Mr. Champion, and I left 

 home for this holiday, accompanied by my wife, on Saturday, June 26th. Travelling 

 via Menai Bridge and Carnarvon we reached Llanberis in the evening, and found 

 apartments (which I am extremely pleased to recommend to any intending visitors 

 to this delightful district) at Cambrian Lodge. Mrs. Parry, our hostess, was so very 

 obliging in various matters so necessary to an entomologist, and her charges so mode- 

 rate, that I feel it necessary to repay her for her kindness by recommending her 

 cottage to my friends. 



The following morning we started for Snowdon, of course ignoring the many 

 offers of guidance, and searched most carefully in any likely spot for our principal 

 desideratum. No, no cerealis ! although the day was just such as one could expect 

 a Chrysomela to delight in. Aphodius lapponum was abundant in sheep dung, the 

 red form (? immature), prevailing to a much greater degree than during last August. 

 Nebria Oyllenhalii was common, but not nearly so abundant as on a previous visit. 

 We found three specimens only of Pterostichus cethiops, a few Patrohus assimilis, a 

 few Corymbites ciiprens, var. cBruginosus (all females), a single specimen of Bembidium 

 bruxellense by one of the streams, and a single Anthophagus alpinus (?). 



Tuesday passed in another careful search for cerealis, though I spent an hour 

 or so beating the larches, &c., in the plantation through which the path leads. Here 

 Dascillus cervinus was abundant, together with Telephorus pellucidus, T. nigricans, 

 T. alpinus (a few), and other common species of the genus. Working in the streams 

 below the path I found Elmis csneus in its usual situation, and Agahus guttatus, but 

 no Geodromicus glohulicollis where we had before taken it. We again met with one 

 or two Pterostichus cethiops, and a single Carabus catenulatus was the only member 

 of the genus found on Snowdon (another of the same species Mrs. Ellis found near 

 the waterfall of Ceunant Mawr). I met with a single specimen of Corymbites tessel- 

 latus, sitting on a rush, and we took both type and variety of C. ctipreus, which, in 

 Cwm Brwynog at least, seems to be partial to the Lycopodium selago. 



