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on payment of a small charge for admission. Such an opportunity- 

 was not to be lost, seeing that the estate is already beginning to be 

 developed, patent fuel works and corn mills being erected in what was 

 till recently a well wooded deer park. At the end of April Baptolinus 

 alternans occurred, under bark of pine, whilst the dry crumbling rotten 

 wood of the dead portions of a living oak produced over a hundred 

 Mycetopliagus piceus, a few Soronia grisea, and a few dead specimens 

 of Focadius ferruqineus. The Mycetophagus occurred in the same 

 place in less numbers in May, July and September ; in July Soronia 

 grisea was found rather more frequently in the interstices of the bark, 

 together with two specimens of Quedius cruentus. On July 6th, in 

 the birch plantations on what was formerly Trafford Moss, beating 

 produced the following species sparingly : — RhampJius fiavicornis, 

 3£icrocara livida, Luperus rujipes, Orchestes stigma, and O. rusci. Be- 

 neath dung of vole a single specimen of PliilontJius puella was taken. 

 In May, Liodes humeralis and Elater lalteatus occurred under the 

 bark of a dead birch, and in September Autalia impressa was taken in 

 an agaric. 



In Kingley "Wood TelepTiorus paludosus occurred in the same re- 

 stricted area and at the same time of the year as in 1896. On visiting 

 the locality on May 20th no specimens were found ; on June 1 1th it 

 was abundant, forty-five males and five females being taken ; on June 

 22nd only eleven specimens were found. A species which I had not 

 previously met with in the wood was Nebria Gyllenhali, of which two 

 specimens occurred on the banks of a stream. 



Chat Moss is a locality which in the near future bids fair to 

 become merely a memory from an entomological point of view. Car- 

 rington Moss, on the Cheshire side of the Mersey, was purchased by 

 the Manchester Corporation in 1886 for the disposal of the city refuse 

 on it. The whole of the 1100 acres (600 acres of which, at the time 

 of purchase, were rough moss land) have been brought into a high 

 state of cultivation, and botanists may now search in vain for the 

 various species of Drosera, and Lepidopterists for CoenonympJia Davus, 

 var. Rothliehii, for which years ago Carrington Moss was a well known 

 station. The more famous Chat Moss, which is a few miles to the 

 west of Manchester on the Lancashire side of the Mersey, is likely 

 soon to experience the same fate as Carrington Moss, for it was pur- 

 chased in 1895 by the Manchester Corporation for a similar purpose. 

 The extent of the Chat Moss Estate is 2000 acres, 400 acres of the 

 estate being outside the borders of the Moss, and having long been 



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