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appear under stones and sods, along with numbers of Helohia 

 nivalis, a species that ascended nearly to the summit. I had now 

 gained the steepest part of the hill, which, where not interrupted 

 by stripes of stones, is covered by short heath, so closely inter- 

 woven that it resembles a carpet. This was embellished by the 

 snowy flowers of the Cloudberry, whose fruit is here called 

 " Noops," the pale yellow and purplish spikes of the Cow wheat, 

 and the delicate waxen bells of the Cowberry ( Vaccinium Vitis' 

 IdceaJ. The insect productions were fully as interesting, and 

 occurred for the most part under stones and peat " haggs." Here 

 for the first time, I met with Calathus onicropterus, Arpediurn 

 hrachypterum and Homalota nivalis, the two last new to Britain. 

 Aphodins Lapponum also marked this point of elevation, inclu- 

 ding what I consider to be a black variety. There were, Lath- 

 rohium fulvipenne, Stenus prohoscideus, Quedius frontalis, small 

 specimens, Q. molochinus, Othius melanocephalus, Lesteva obscura, 

 Trechus minutus, Notiophilus aquaticus, iV". palustris, Duft. 

 (tibialis Steph.J, N. biguttatus, Homalota analis, Loricera pili- 

 cornis, Carabus violaceus, Colymbetes fontinalis, in the clear rivu- 

 lets, Calathus melanocephalus, in some instances with the thorax 

 pitchy, Patrobus excavatus very prevalent, and Cryptoliypniis ri- 

 parius. Wireworms were not unfrequent, and appeared to be 

 those of Cryptoliypniis riparius and Corymbites ciLprcus. The 

 summit is grassy, and near the apex there grow little thickets of 

 stunted bilberry ( Vaccinium Myrtillus). These places were in- 

 habited by Oiiorhynclius Maurus, a native of the cloud-capped 

 mountains of Wales, and the Scottish Highlands. Anthophagus 

 alpinus, another upland species, also appeared here, at an alti- 

 titude of 2,347 feet above the sea. The lowland accompani- 

 ments were Stenus impressus, Quedius Boops, Othius melanoce- 

 phalus, Patrobus excavatus, and the Notiophili. The stones that 

 sheltered these insects were mostly those that had lain for a long 

 period undisturbed. A pretty moth, of a kind I had not seen 

 before, fluttered about; many long-legged Tipulae ( T. horten- 

 sis 1J were whisking athwart the heath ; and in the black, bare 

 peaty rifts, there arose little parties of Medeterus nebulosus. The 

 descent was soon accomplished. The blackbird piped his evening 



