70 [March, 



The beetles soon leave the refuse, and during and after a flood it is hard work to keep 

 pace with the material ; it would be quite impossible to do so without some artificial 

 means of separating the beetles, such as is afforded by the muslin sacks. Autumn 

 flood refuse near Forres produces a great vai'iety of beetles, even Lagria hirta and 

 an Anaspis or two turned up in this way in October, and about eighty specimens of 

 Anisotoma found their way into my bottles. 



The Rhynchophora taken include the following:* — Phytobius 4<-tuherculatus 

 (J) and leuoogaster (e) ; Rhinoncus castor; CeutJiorliynchideus nigrinus andjloralis; 

 Ceuthorhynchus chalyhceus, contractus, cyanipennis, erysimi, quadridens, sulcicollis, 

 and hirtulus (?) ; Cceliodes ruber (c) a-Tadfuliginosus (e),the latter in great numbers ; 

 Orchestes rusci (e) ; Anthonomus ulmi (e) ; Balaninus cerasorum (e), a species new to 

 Scotland ; Apion striatum and immune, both on broom, simile, Spencei, marehicum, 

 ononis, mthiops, carduorum, ervi, frumentarium, &c. ; Brachonyx indigena (pinetij, 

 only one specimen (e) ; G-rypidius equisefi (e) ; Pissodes notatus and Hylobius 

 abietis, sparingly, beaten from fir (a) ; Hypera plantaginis and polygoni, in great 

 numbers (e), polygoni appears to live along the banks of the Moy burn, almost in the 

 water ; Tropiphorus mercurialis (tomentosus) and probably obtusus, at least some of 

 the specimens have the elytra very distinctly shaped as described in Canon Fowler's 

 " Coleoptera of the British Islands," but I am not satisfied that I have more than 

 the sexes of mercurialis. Otiorhynchus atroapterus (d), maurus, only one (e), 

 blandus, very common (a, b, e), muscorum and ovatus (e), septentrionis (e), also one 

 specimen of the latter from the grounds by Nelson's monument, Forres, by sweeping 

 broom and young firs ; Barynotus ScMiiherri (e) ; Sitones griseus, in immense 

 numbers on broom wherever growing — it seems strange that there should ever have 

 been any doubt that this insect was Scotch, sulcifrons, by thousands out of fiood- 

 rubbish ; also SciapMlus muricatus (e) ; Rhynchites megacephalus, one beaten out 

 of birch {d) ; Hylastes palliatus (e) ; "trypodendron lineatum (e) ; Sylurgus 

 piniperda (e). 



The Clavioornia comprise: — Agathidiam Icevigatum (d), marginatum (e), and 

 nigrinum (d) ; Cyrtusa minuta (e) ; Anisotoma picea (2), rugosa (5), Triepkei, 

 obesia or dubia (or perhaps both), and calearata ; Hydnobius punctatissimus (5), a 

 species new to the north of Scotland, I believe, (all e) ; Colon dentipes (e) ; also 

 a light coloured silky species of Colon from flood refuse, which has slight traces 

 of strise, and which I cannot determine; Choleva angustata {e), cisteloides (e), 

 cTirysomeloides (d), tristis, longula, grandicollis, and some specimens which I have 

 identified soinewhat doubtfully as Kirlyi {d) ; Necrophorus ruspator (d) and hu- 

 mator (d). For Choleva and carrion beetles the heads of dead codfish placed on 

 the sandhills formed an attractive and workable bait. Sphcerites glabratus (e), one 

 specimen only; Onthophilus striatus (e). CoccinellidcB were strongly represented, 

 amongst them Coccinella hieroglyphic a, including the black form (d), obliterata (e), 

 oblongo-guttata, ocellata, lS-(^uttata, 14-guttata, 16-guttata (all d), the last men- 

 tioned common on birch at one spot ; 5-punctata {a and e) ; 11-punctata {d and e) — 

 the only form of this insect which I found is the var. d of Mulsant, with the side spots 

 large and confluent, called brevifasciata by Weise. I have never seen this form 

 before : it does not appear to have been taken by many English or Scotch collectors. 

 The type form of C. \l-punctata AlA not turn up at all; the larva occurred on 

 * The letters added to the species refer to the above localities. 



