\885.J 139 



I have never noticed this in any beetle before, and it is strange that there should 

 have been two instances in so small a series. They appear to be very ferocious 

 beetles ; many of them reached me alive, and, while I was looking at them, one rushed 

 upon a companion and seized it by the leg like a bull dog, refusing to let go in spite 

 of all I could do to force it to do so. — W. W. Fowlee, Lincoln : Oct. 14<A,1885. 



Coleoptera at Tenhy. — During a visit to Tenby in August, I took a few 

 Coleoptera worth recording, among them the following : — 



Nebria complanata, one specimen, under a piece of old hamper on the beach ; 

 this species appears to be exceedingly rare at Tenby. Mr. Jeffreys, naturalist, of 

 Tenby, informed me that he had taken two specimens at Pendine, about ten miles 

 off, but that he had never known it to occur at Tenby before ; this seems rather 

 strange, as it is fairly abundant at Swansea, a little way up the coast : in the same 

 •way, however, the land-shell, Helix pisana, which literally swarms at Tenby will 

 not flourish at Swansea, although experiments have been made with a view to 

 naturalizing it there. On the shore close to the town, I found about fifty Diglossa 

 below high water mark : they were chiefly running in the hot sun. I also obtained 

 Cassida hemisphcErica (one specimen : the only other I ever met with was at Filey, 

 Yorkshire), Anisotoma duhia, (Edemera ccerulea (a reddish variety), Cteniopus 

 sulphtireus, Thyami?, marcida, Meligethes umhrosus (one or two specimens), and last, 

 but not least, Meligethes exilis, which was by far the most plentiful 3IeUgetlies ; it 

 occurred in flowers of Hieracium,ivoxn which I also took OUbrus Uquidus ; the latter 

 I obtained almost exclusively in one small spot between Griltar and Lydstep, but I 

 found 3Ieligethes at Lydstep, Griltar, Penalby Burrows, and on Tenby sand-hills 

 close to the town. 



Eemiptera were fairly plentiful, but I found nothing worth mentioning, except 

 perhaps, Verlusia rJiombea and Picromerus bidens. 



Of the Eymenoptera, Balictus cylindricus, Cerceris arenaria, and Pompilus 

 plumheus, were abundant ; and I found one specimen of Ammophila sabulosa. I 

 failed to find Harpalus melancholicus and Therapha liyoscyami, of each of which 

 I took a specimen on the sand-hills some years ago. — Id. 



Brepanopteryx phalcenoides, L., in Scotland : a re-discovery.— As it is nearly 

 twenty years, I believe, since we have heard anything about D. phalcenoides as 

 British, it is gratifying to be able once more to confirm the existence of such an 

 interesting Neuropterous form in this country. 



On September 18th Mr. McLachlan, Mr. King and I made an excursion to the 

 Mouse aien, near Cleghorn, one of the best localities for Keuroptera in this part of 

 Lanarkshire. Though cold weather had prevailed for some time before, we had a 

 tolerably fine day, insects were out in number, and the locaHty quite maintained its 

 reputation. While we were working the ground where Adicella filicornis occurs 

 during the warmer months, an insect with a most deceptive resemblance to a dead 

 leaf roUed into my net. When in London a few weeks earHer, Mr. McLachlan had 

 shown me examples of J), phalcenoides which he had brought home from the 

 Schwarzwald, and with the striking appearance of these still fresh in my mind, I 

 had no difficulty in recognising my capture. A few minutes later Mr. King secured 



M 2 



