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He-occurrence of Tortrix piceana, L. , in Britain. — After long waiting, I have at 

 last the pleasure of announcing the re-discovery of one of our rarest Tortrices. 



My friend, Mr. S. J. Capper, of Liverpool, when looking over a box of miscel- 

 laneous insects collected by Mr. Charles Gulliver, of Eamnor, Brockenhurst, found 

 three specimens of a Tortrix, which he judged to be Tortrix piceana, L. Mr 

 Gulliver did not know what they were, and thought them of little importance, but 

 gave them to Mr. Capper for investigation. Two of them were forwarded to me 

 and proved to be unquestionable piceana, <? and $ in fine condition. 



It will be remembered by those who have studied the Tortrices that the original 

 specimen was taken in the New Forest, by Mr. Stone, and this specimen I have seen 

 in Mr. E. Shepherd's collection. A second was taken by myself many years ago on 

 the borders of Hants. Some remarks on this species will be found, ante vol. ix, 

 p. 215. 



The larva is said to feed on Pinus picea, abies, and sylvestris. 



It is curious that this species should at last turn up, so closely upon the dis- 

 covery in this country of its near congener, decreiana. — Id. 



Coleoptera at Carlingford. — I spent from July 9th to August 4th at Carling- 

 ford, which is a small town on the southern side of Carlingford Lough. I found 

 the neighbourhood decidedly productive of Coleoptera, though these were practically 

 only procurable by one method, viz., turning stones. Sweeping was almost useless, 

 and there were scarcely any ponds suitable for the water net. The localities were 

 the mountain at the foot of which Carlingford is built, the shore of the Lough down 

 to Greenore, the sea shore from Greenore to Laggan Point, and the sea shore at 

 Bellurgan ; all these are in the County Louth. 



The mountain rather disappointed me, for I expected more from it than I got. 

 I can only account for the scarcity of specimens by the practice of burning the 

 heather. Evidently, however, fire agrees with ants, for they swarmed in all directions. 



The Oeodephaga were represented by Carabus nemoralis, the elytra of Carabus 

 catenulatus (no amount of searching could produce the living insect), Notiophilus 

 aquaticus, N.palustris, and N.biguttatus, Nebria brevicollis, Clivinafossor, Trechus 

 minutus, Pterostichus madidus, P. vulgaris, Aniara ovata, A. aulica, Panz. (spinipes, 

 Auct., nee Linn.), Olisthopus rotundatus. The only notable capture among the 

 Hydradephaga was Agabus congener. In stercore ovino were Cercyon unipunctatum, 

 C. tnelanocephalum, and numbers of Aphodius rufescens, also A. ater. Staphylinidce 

 were 'few and far between, on the mountain side : Ocypus cupreus, Quedius tristis 

 Q. molochinus, Q. attenuatus, Astilbus canaliculatus, Tachinus marginellus, Xantho- 

 linus punctulatus, and Othius melanoeephalus were the representatives of the Family. 

 The other Families are almost unrepresented on the mountain. A couple of 

 Dascillus cervinus were got on the heather, also one or two Selops striatus, one 

 Byrrhus fasciatus, and two B. Dennyi. Mrs. Johnson made the capture of the 

 mountain by taking two specimens of Orobitis cyaneus from under a Btone on the 

 side of the slopes. Of course, we tore up all the stones, and ransacked every likely 

 bit of herbage, but no more were to be got. Sweeping the heather produced half a 

 dozen Ceuthorhynchus erica. These complete the list, as far as the mountain is 



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