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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



[No. 6 can scarcely be relied upon ; but the species may be distinguished 

 with certainty by means of Nos. 4 and 5.] 



BoREUs HYEMALis (Plate IV. 4), the remaining British repre- 

 sentative of the group, I have never succeeded in finding, although 

 I have occasionally made search for it. Mr. K. J. Morton, who 

 finds it near Edinburgh, once {in litt. Nov. 20fch, 1908) sent me 

 suggestions with regard to searching for the elusive little 

 creature, and no doubt he will not mind my publishing them. 

 He says: — " Boreus may be a little local, but it is certainly 

 widely distributed. I suppose the mode of taking it is that 

 adopted by coleopterists for catching moss-frequenting beetles. 

 Try moss-covered walls, both top and base, mossy banks, and 

 open woods where there is a good growth of moss around the 

 foot of the trees. The best moss is not that which grows in close 

 cushions, but the more luxuriant sorts which allow of a good 

 handful being torn away from the earth. This should be care- 

 fully separated with the hands and shaken, the operation being 

 performed over a newspaper. If the little beast is there, he 

 usually shews his presence by jumping." 



Compared with the scorpion-flies, Boreus is a tiny creature, the 

 figure (Plate IV. 4) being magnified about two and a half times. 

 The wings are quite rudimentary, but the beak-like head reveals 

 its relationship with Panorpa. Again we have to look to Brauer 



