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Carabus arvensis. Dj/scMrius globosus occurred on damp sand. I proceeded about 

 a mile, and then met with Cymindis vaporariorum, in company with Calathus 

 flavipes. These beetles onlj occurred under stones which lay upon heather, never 

 under those which lay upon the bare peat or sand. In a small puddle I found a 

 drowned Carabus nitens, and close by, under stonfis, two examples of Fterostichus 

 vitreun. Bradyeellus cognatus was very abundant at this spot. A small rill crossed 

 the moor at this point, out of which I fished three black Hydropori, which proved 

 to be S. celatus. A patch of wet Sphagnum yielded H. melanarius, often considered 

 a rarity, but I have taken numbers of it lately on the moors near Scarborough. 



I spent half an hour fishing in the stream called the Black Beck, which runs 

 at the foot of the moor. Here I took Hydroporus rivalis in quantity, many H. 

 septentrionalis, and a few H. latus ; Hydrcena gracilis and Elmis parallelopipedus 

 were also abundant. Under stones by the side of the stream were Bembidium 

 tibiale, atroccBruleum, and monticola, with quantities of Nebria Gyllenhali. 



About a mile to the south of Langdale End the hills rise very abruptly, and are 

 crowned by a moor which must be two or three hundred feet more elevated than the 

 one I have just described. This has produced several species of beetles not seen on 

 the lower moor. The long coarse moss which grows between the ling is full of 

 Calathus micropterus. In a very sandy place I took a single example of Amara 

 spreta, a very unlooked-for find. One day when I was riding along a sandy road 

 which crosses this moor I encountered a single specimen of Fterostichus athiops 

 taking its walks abroad ; I have searched in vain for a second example. There is 

 very little water on this moor, but I have taken Hydroporus morio here in abund- 

 ance. A trench round a tumulus is generally full of water, and it is here that the 

 beetle occurs, along with H. tristis and H. Oyllenhali. 



The other most interesting beetles I have met with on these moors and in the 

 moorland streams are : Amara consularis, Henicccerus exsculptus, Hydrcena angus- 

 tata, Orectochilus villosu.i, and Elmis subviolaceus. — W. C. Hey, West Ayton, near 

 Scarborough : April, 1898. 



A new locality for Aetophorus imperialis, Germ. — I met with a few specimens 

 of Aetophorus imperialis on the 19th inst. at Funton, Kent, at the edge of the 

 marshes on the right bank of the Medway, about half-way between Chatham and 

 Sheerness. They were found in a small stack of reeds and bulrushes by the road- 

 side, in company with Z'rowjj'M.s vectensis, Myrmedonia limbata, Coccidula scutellata, 

 Stilbus oblongus, Telmatophilus Schonherri, &c. ; the last-named three species being 

 plentiful. Aetophorus is so local an insect in our islands that its occurrence in a 

 new place is perhaps noteworthy ; the pi'esent record, as far as I am aware, being 

 the first for the county of Kent. — J. J. Walkee, R.N., 23, Ranelagh Koad, 

 Sheerness : March 2(ith, 1898. 



Habits of Heptaulacus testudinarius. — In a recent number of the " Naturalist's 

 Journal " I called attention to the fact of the occurrence of Heptaulacus testudina- 

 rius in some numbers in the burrows of Oeotrupes mutator. Since then I have 

 received from Miss Burgess, of Ferndown, a further series from East Dorset, to- 

 gether with some remarks by Mr. Cecil Stroud, who has been mainly instrumental 



