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approbation of tliis singular mode of worship, but were much 

 pleased with the pretty appearance of the Welsh girls, in their 

 dashing beaver hats, and snow-white caps and handkerchiefs. 



12th. Rained all day. We returned to Shrewsbury; and 

 thence to Leominster. While dining at Corwen, we heard 

 a most remarkable thunder-clap ; the lightning and thunder 

 appeared to be simultaneous ; the thunder was as loud 

 as the report of a cannon, and was followed by little or no 

 reverberation. 



13th. Showery: collected round Leominster: took more 

 Pachyta collaris and Atherix Ibis in the same localities, also 

 Tenlhredo vidua and punctum, Sapyga sexpunctata, &c. With 

 the water-net, in the River Lug, we took Colymbetes maculatiis, 

 Hydroporits depressus, Halipli(s elevatus, Hydroena pusilla, 

 Hydrobius bipunctatus and globulus, Helophorus viridicollis, 

 and several other water-beetles ; on the blossom of the cha- 

 momile, in a wheat-field, Phalacrus csneus, and by sweeping, 

 Leachiellus and corticalis. In the evening, we mothed, for a 

 short time, in Eton Wood, and took very fine specimens of 

 Abraxas ulmata and Emmelesia, alchemillata. 



14th. Showery day : Dinmore-hill. On this finely-wooded 

 hill we took several good insects ; Throscus dermestoides and 

 Lamprias chlorocepliala, beaten out of the broom ; Cephus 

 satyrus, out of the oak ; Pachyta octomaculata, apparently 

 asleep on the blossoms of the Viburnum opulus, in great 

 abundance ; Rhagium bifasciatum and vulgar e on the same 

 flower ; Clytus arietis was remarkably abundant ; Empis 

 pennipes, Dioctria oelandica, and several Tenthredines and 

 Ichneumones. 



15th. Briarly Wood. Steady rain; which however did not 

 deter us until we found the roads impassable for mire. We took 

 Tillus ambulans on a whitethorn hedge ; Oxyporus rufus, in 

 some Fungi; Mordella abdominalis, on Umbelliferce ; and, in 

 a wheat- field, Agonum plicicolle, and a great number of 

 Agonum parumjmnctatum, the variety which Marsham has 

 called Carabus ccerulescens : we observed, these are generally 

 smaller and run slower than parumpunctatum ; the apex of the 

 elytra, we perceived, was, in some lights, slightly ochreous. — 

 Why is not A. cceridescens a species ? 



16th. Olden Barn.^ We were fortunate in a really fine 



f The property of the writer's fatlier. 



