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sugaring. The life-histories of very few beetles are known, and 

 will well repay study. The larvae of many species, especially the 

 wood beetles, are easily obtained ; from a few bored twigs, 

 casually picked up last January under some fir trees, I bred in 

 June Tomicus bispinus, Lissodema i-pustulata, and hundreds of 

 Pityophthorus micrographus, and the very rare Tropideres sepicola 

 has, I believe, never been obtained in any other way. As to 

 sugaring, it is well known that the larger CarabidcB come to sugar, 

 but it is not generally known that if a little moss be sugared 

 and put into a hole in the ground, or in a hole in a tree, it will 

 often produce very rare species of the smaller insects. 



In conclusion, it may be said that there is yet a wide field 

 open to discovery as far as Coleoptera are concerned, and any 

 coleopterist may soon make a name for himself by the discovery 

 of Adelops in our many bone caves, of Anillus under the Snowdon 

 boulders, or of Langelandia in buried logs of wood in any part of 

 the country. 



I would only add that it is almost impossible to collect 

 Lepidoptera and Coleoptera together with any comfort : as, how- 

 ever, it is very annoying to miss some rare species, a brass Y and 

 folding sugaring-net may be carried in the pocket, and the 

 sweeping-net will usually suffice to hold the insect until the 

 gauze net is got ready to receive it. 

 The School House, Lincoln, January 5, 1882. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



Rhopalocera at Llandudno. — As a supplement to Mr. 

 Porritt's note in the September number (Entom. xiv. 215), the fol- 

 lowing particulars as to the butterflies of Llandudno may be worth 

 recording : — Gonepteryx rhamni is not often met with ; Colias 

 Edusa, which is rare this season, was taken in large numbers at 

 Colwyn Bay in 1877, and C. Hyale is to be found on the banks of 

 the Eiver Conway. Of the whites, Pieris brassicce is oftenest seen. 

 Vanessidce are well represented ; Vanessa cardui was very common 

 in 1880, but I did not see one this year. Vanessa lo and 

 F. Atalanta rival V. urticcB in numbers, while V. polychloros is 

 not rare on the Great Orme. Vanessa C-album makes the Gloddaeth 

 Woods its head-quarters, occurring plentifully, where also Argynnis 



