MOOR BEETLES. 
REVAW, CGC. HEY,: M.A., M.C.Si, 
Vice-President of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, West Ayton, near Scarborough. 
IMMEDIATELY beyond the sronalees backbone called Langdale Rigg, 
and about ten miles west of Scarborough, lie two very desolate- 
looking stretches of moorland, described in the Ordnance Map as 
Maw Rigg and Ebberston High Moor. At their southern extremity, 
where they gradually narrow off, flows a picturesque little stream 
called by the gloomy name of the ‘ Black Beck.’ I have spent two 
brilliant afternoons this month (May) in searching these moors and this 
beck for Coleoptera. On the first occasion I was accompanied and 
assisted in collecting by Mr. J. Raine, of West Ayton. After putting 
up our pony trap at the little inn at Langdale End (which, I may 
remark by the way, is now a very comfortable little house, and most 
handy for those who love a day in wild scenery), we walked down to 
a farmhouse called Birch Hall, picking up Ziophleus nubilus, Harpalus 
latus, and Aphodius luridus (the black variety) on the way. We soon 
reached a small mossy bog which yielded Aydroporus morio and 
fH. gyllenhalii. Two other species of the same genus—JZ. wigrita 
and /Z, memnonius—occurred in a neighbouring pool. As we ascended 
the slope of the moor, we found the heather, dead as it still was, 
absolutely swarming with a beautiful green Ha/tica, which seems to 
agree best with Canon Fowler’s description of /7. ampelophaga, but it 
is a genus which has never been successfully elucidated. An extra- 
ordinary number of Emperor Moths (Saturnia carpini) kept flying 
past us in the dazzling sunshine, mostly in the teeth of a sharp south- 
shining like polished malachite. One specimen I too 
the dark variety. About two miles further, and just beyond a large 
collection of tumuli, we came across a tiny gully which, owing to its 
steep sides, had proved a trap to many insects, the most conspicuous 
being Carabus nitens. Under stones in the same gully, I took a pair 
of the Alpine Prerostichus vitreus. In the living insects, the wing 
cases wear a decided brassy tint, which. readily distinguishes the 
species. Here I also met with a quantity of Bradycellus — 
Xantholinus linearis, and a pair of Cytilus varius. This was the 
limit of our excursion, and here we rested a while to — the 
Curlews (Mumentus arguata) which were shrieking about us in great 
numbers. Now and again a Grouse (Zagopus scoticus) started up, 
and once or twice the faint pipe of the Golden Plover (Charadrius 
June 1895. 
