66 [August, 
By exploring a tall mountain behind Cross Craig, known to the aborigines as 
" Gray vel " (signifying " rough," as I was informed, and amply deserving that 
adjective), several insects came to light which were not to be had elsewhere; 
Miscodera arctica at the summit, Calathus micropterus and C. nuhigena, the usual 
Patroius septentrionis and P. clavipes (abundantly), Otiorhynchus maurus, Trechus 
ohtusus, Oxypoda aterrima (Wat. Cat.), Homalota tihialis, H. nitidula, and the 
insect previously recorded as Schistoglossa viduata, but which is not that species 
(of which I only know of two examples, — one in Mr. Crotch's possession, taken by 
Mr. Wollaston, and the other in Mr. Waterhouse's cabinet), but an apparently 
nndescribed Homalota {Atheta, Thom.), being all taken here, with Tachimis elonga' 
talus, Mycetoporus nanus, &c. 
Turning over stones, and shaking the rough moss between them, produced 
Anthophagus alpinus in numbers (with many comuted males), Arpedium hrachypterum 
and Oeodromicus glohuUcolUs in some quantity, and Stemis genicidatus, Bythinus 
securiger, and the Lesteva formerly brought forward as monticola (but which appeal's 
to be undescribed) more sparingly. 
Here also I found, in moss near the summit, a specimen of an insect about the 
size and build of Mycetoporus punctus (Mr. Marshall also found one, but much 
smaller than mine), but which, from the structure of its maxillary palpi, is 
evidently a Bryoporus, and I think must be referred to B. rufus, Er. (Gen. et Spec. 
Staph., 273, 8), a species new to Britain, of which it appears to be a not previously 
noticed dark variety. It is almost pitchy-black in colour, with the edges of the 
thorax and elytra and margins of the abdominal segments lighter ; and, as far as 
colour goes, would seem to fit better with the descriptions of the already recorded 
B. cernuus, which is noticed as varying from black with red elytra to almost 
entirely red ; but the proximity of its thoracic punctures to the fore and hind 
margins, — the greater length of its elytra, the punctuation of the striae of which is 
somewhat obsolete, and of the interstices both irregular and obsolete, — and the 
evident thickening of its antennae (Er., loc. cit., p. 273 ; a character not noticed by 
Kraatz or Thomson), all point to B. rufus; of which, although no dark form has 
been recorded, a variety with the head and breast pitchy -black is given by Erichson. 
I also found, on the summit of the same mountain, some specimens of a very 
small and (when alive) almost entirely pale Oxypoda, identical with a species sent 
me some time ago by Mr. Morris Young, which 1 am inclined to refer to the 0. soror 
of Thomson (Ofv., 1855 ; Skand. Col., iii., 24, 1), a species also new to our lists. 
Its entirely testaceous hue, except a very slight infuscation in the middle of the 
abdomen, scarcely perceptible (if at all) when alive, but becoming darker and 
spreading after death, — -short elytra, which are not so long as the thorax, — and 
long antennse, which are distinctly as long as the head and thorax, and are but 
slightly thickened towards the apex, — readily distinguish it from all our other 
small testaceous species. 
Under stones near the top of " Grayvel," I took a few examples of another 
Oxypoda, alUed to lentula, Er., but with somewhat more the form of longiuscula, 
Er., and which, imagining it to be undescribed, I characterize as follows : 
0. RUPicoLA (n. sp.) : elongata, sub-parallela, nigra, sub-opaca, tenuiter sericeo- 
pubescens, eh/tris depressiusculis, antennis pedibusque piceo-nigris, his genubus 
tnrsisque vix dilutiorihus. Long. H 'in. 
