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and might, no doubt, have got more, but for stupidly imagining that it 

 was only C. auratus, and thus not working for it as I ought to have 

 done. There were a good many bees and other Hymenoptera on the 

 roadside flowers, and burrowing into the soft plaster walls of the 

 houses ; I also found another example of the beautiful Lithonoma 

 taken yesterday, and several other useful beetles. Coming to a pine 

 plantation, with a beautiful growth of heather, &c, under the trees, I 

 saw a Gicindela flying about not rarely in a small sand pit at its edge, 

 but on catching one it proved to be only our common G. canipestris. 

 Here, too, was the only place where I saw any butterflies all the 

 afternoon : Pieris brassicte and napi, Pararge JEgeria (dark type-form) 

 and Megcera, were flitting about not uncommonly, with occasional 

 hibernated specimens of Vanessa Io ; Pidonia atornaria was also 

 observed, as well as the half -grown larvae of Chelonia Gaja and Bonibyx 

 quercus, while GrapJiolitlia ulicetana abounded among the furze bushes 

 as at home. In a felled pine I found a good many examples of the 

 conspicuous Tomicus stenographus, Dufts., and again tried the moss, 

 with the result of one TrachypUceus. I went to the top of the nearest 

 hill, and walked on until I got a view of the coast outside the harbour, 

 whither I had intended going, but time did not admit of doing so. 

 There were few insects up here, but I got one example of a very nice 

 species of Asida, two of a fine Tarus, a Helops not unlike II. striatus, 

 and a fair supply of the Tirnarclia taken on the 15th. Going back 

 through another pine plantation, I found a single very fresh Lyccena 

 Baton J 1 , at rest on the heather ; Hylobius abietis was obtained by 

 shaking cut pine branches over paper ; and Staphylinus ceesareus 

 occurred several times in the paths, one being taken in the act of eating 

 a dead worm. The afternoon was finished up in the cultivated ground 

 next the harbour, numbers of Harpali, of four species, occurring 

 under small stones at the edges of the fields, Glytus arcuatus under 

 chestnut bark, Cetonia liirtella on cabbage blossom, and, almost my last 

 capture, Dianous ccerulescens off a stone in a little stream. Returning 

 to Ferrol at 6.30 p.m., I went on board the ship soon afterwards, and 

 at 5 a.m. the next day the " Grappler " sailed for Devonport. 



It will be seen that nothing very rare or special was taken by me 

 during this flying visit to Ferrol, and my three afternoon's work pro- 

 duced only 95 species of Coleoptera • but I feel sure that, with fine 

 weather, I should at least have trebled this number in the same time, 

 and I have no doubt that the locality would well repay any entomologist 

 who could work there under more favourable conditions than fell to 

 my lot. 



23, Ranelagh Eoad, Sheerness : 

 July 3rd, 1889. 



