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Culross, York ; scalesianus (too late for this species), Askham 

 Bog in early spring ; angiistatas, Dorking, Lee ; umbrosus, 

 moors, Culross; vittula, Elmers End, Dollar; incognitiis, Gart- 

 morne Dam, Alloa ; palustris, everywhere common ; erythro- 

 cephalus, everywhere common ; rufifrons, Dollar ; dorsalis, 

 Lewisham, York; longulus, Pentlands ; obsoletus, Penthmds; 

 ferrugineus, Newhaven ; ohlongus, Askham Bay (too late for it in 

 September). 



Agahus uliginosus, Askham Bog, thanks to Rev. H. C. Hay ; 

 affinis, Dollar ; unguicularis, York, Gartmorne Dam ; conspersus, 

 Gravesend, brackish water; femoraUs, moors, Culross; ahhre- 

 viatus, under stones in a dried-up pool, York ; arcticus, deep 

 fresh-water pool in quarry, Culross ; Rliantus grapii, Askham 

 Bog ; Hydaticus seminiger, in considerable numbers, Lee, in 

 August. 



It may be interesting to record Elmis volkmeeri at Catford. 

 30, Ladywell Park, Lewisham. 



AN ENTOMOLOGICAL WINTER CAMPAIGN IN SPAIN 

 AND NORTH AFRICA. 



By G. Dieck. 



(Concluded from p. 43.) 



After some fifteen days stay, full of the highest enjoyment, 

 I left African ground, and on 23rd January again landed on the 

 Spanish coast of Algeciras, where I obtained an excellent lodging 

 in the vicinity of the Fonda Italiana. I can, with a good con- 

 science, assert that the beetle-fauna of Algeciras is the richest I 

 have met anywhere in Europe, for here are found not only the 

 greater number of species which occur at Tangier, but one also 

 meets here with a crowd of insects, &c., truly peculiar to 

 Spain, which are wanting on the African coast. Herein lies the 

 reason, in my opinion, — that the sea, even at this present time, 

 brings about a certain limited union of both faunae, for it carries 

 over insects which have been brought down by the African rivers 

 and deposits them in the Bay of Gibraltar. The current from 

 the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea is an extraordinary 

 strong one, and principally by storms from the south this is forced 



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