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a list of insects collected in the vicinity of Bridgend, Glamor- 

 ganshire, from last May to September. They were all 

 captured in a circle of about three miles round that small 

 town. Two parts consist of different species of limestone, one 

 of coal-mines, and one of sand-hill or sea-coast. The larvae of 

 Lasiocampa trifolii I found in plenty at the end of May, in 

 all stages of growth, on the sand-hills ; their natural food is 

 the Lotus conviculatus, or bird's-foot clover ; although they eat 

 freely, and thrive, still the moth is difficult to rear, as the larvas 

 mostly die in transforming to the pupa state. Thecla Betulce, 

 Pieris Cratcegi, and Melitcea Artemis, were in profusion last 

 year. I shall be happy to exchange any Coleoptera, Diptera, 

 Hymenoptera, &c., for Lepidoptera, and am. Sir, 

 Your most obedient servant, 



Charles Blomer, Capt. — Regt. 



Lepidoptera : — 

 Thecla Betulae 

 Pieris Crataegi 

 Melitsea Artemis 

 Lasiocampa Trifolii 

 Bombycia viminalis 

 Caradrina trilinea 

 Cymatophora subtusa 

 Polia bicaudata * 



herbida 

 Actebia Praecox 

 Agrotis Cunigera 

 Coclylis Baumanniana * 

 Pterophorus tetradactylus 

 Sesia Bombiliformis 

 Scopula flavalis 

 Diptera: — 

 Tabanus vittatus * 

 (Estrus Ericetorum 

 Tachina fera 

 Atherix Ibis 

 Henops gibbus 

 Asilus germanicus 

 Ceria Conopsoides 



Hymenoptera : — 

 Chrysis bidentata 

 ignita 

 cyanea 

 Bombus Harrisellus 



rupestris 

 Osmia Tunensis 

 maritima * 

 parietina 

 bicolor 

 Andrena aurata * 

 spinigera 

 Eucera longicornis 

 Mellinus pratensis 

 frontalis 

 Psen compressicornis 

 Coleoptera: — 

 Agonum emarginatum 

 punctatum * 

 Ophonus azureus 

 Omaseus angustior 

 Elaphrus cupreus 

 riparius 



Clivina collaris 



Tachypus Andrese 



Ocys rubens 



Nebria complanata 



Pedinus maritimus 



Nitidula obscura 



Haltica affinis 



iEgialia globosa 



Hister 4-striatus 



Opatrum tibiale 



Hydroporus flavipes 



12-pustuiatus 



Colymbetes vitreus 



paludosus 



oblongus 



guttatus 



Cassida nobilis 



Cistela nobilis * 



Cicindela maritima 



Ocypus brunnipes 



Hemiptera: — 



Pentatoma bidens 



Cydnus Morio. 



[We have marked with an asterisk several insects with 

 which we are wholly unacquainted, even by name. — Ed.] 



39. Rather extraordinary. — On Sunday, as Mr. William Ferris, 

 of Pennywell Lane, was in his garden, about eleven o'elock in the 



