366 



Mr. P. J. Selby on the Fauna of Twizell. 



others^ which continue to the beginning of May, from which 

 period till the 8th or 10th of June very few species of Noc- 

 tuidece are on wing ; but the scene is changed as soon as mid- 

 summer approaches, as it is ushered in by a vast variety of 

 forms, which come forth in rapid and daily succession. None 

 of the Sphingidce have yet been attracted by this device, nor 

 have any of the Bombycidce or other groups in which the ci- 

 barian organs are small and imperfectly developed been seen 

 upon it. Many of the Geometrida? and TortricidcB however 

 have been captured, and among them some of our rarest spe- 

 cies. The Geometridcd amount to nearly 100 species, and 

 among these will be found several which have been considered 

 as only locally distributed or rare. To this division several 

 additions may be expected to be made, as also to those which 

 follow it, as the same degree of attention has not yet been be- 

 stowed upon them which has been given to the larger though 

 not more beautiful or extraordinary forms of these gems of 

 nature. 



A List of Coleopterous Insects taken upon the Twizell Estate, 

 I. Geodephaga. 



1. ClCINDELID^. 



C. campestris. 



2. BUACHYNlD-ffi:. 



Dromius linearis. 



— — quadrimaculatus. 



fasciatus. 



agilis. 



melanocephalus. 



3. SCARITID^. 



Clivina fossor. 



4. Carabid^. 

 Cychnis rostratus. 

 Carabus catenulatus. 



monilis. 



granulatus. 



violaceus. 



■ ■ ■■ hortensis. 



nitens. 



Helobia brevicollis. 



nivalis aut Gyllenhalii. 



Leistus fulvibarbis. 

 rufescens. 



5. Harpalid^e. 

 Loricera pilicornis. 

 Badister bipustulatus. 

 Anchomenus prasinus. 

 albipes. 



Platynus angusticollis. 

 Agoniim parumpunctatum. 

 viduum. 



versutum. 

 laeve. 



emarginatum. 

 piceura. 



Calathus melanocephalus- 



Cisteloides. 



mollis. 



Argutor piUlus. 

 Poecilus cupreus. 



rufifemoratus. 



versicolor ? 



Omaseus aterrimus ? 



nigrita. 



melanarius. 



Steropus madidus. 



Etliiops ? 



Stomis pumicatus. 

 Patrobus rufipcs. 

 Platysraa niger. 

 Amara lata. 



similata. 



vulgaris. 



trivialis. 



— — plebeia. 



communis. 



- ■ ■ familiaris. 

 Bradytus apricarius. 

 Harpalus rufimanus. 



