FIELD MEETINGS FOK 19II 355 



thrips, and a mutilated male of **Bagnallia dilatatus (Uzel), 

 another addition to the British fauna, was taken from the 

 marsh red-rattle or lousewort, Pedicularis palustris, growing in 

 a marshy spot near Holystone. Oxythrips brevicollis Bagnall 

 was unsuccessfully searched for in sphagnum, but as the 

 insects usually found in sphagnum were very scarce indeed, 

 little time was spent in what appeared to be a thankless task. 

 Most of the pines were too tall to examine easily, but by 

 jumping up and tapping some of the lower branches over a 

 paper a few examples of Oxythrips brevistylis Trybom were 

 shaken from the flowers, together with its earlier stages, and a 

 single example of O. ajugce Uzel. Uzel has also recorded the 

 latter from Pinus sylvestris, as well as from the bugle (Ajuga 

 reptans). Aeolothrips vittatus Hal., which, in my experience, 

 appears to be attached to the pine, was not seen. A good 

 many other species, less typically moorland, from the leaf of 

 the cherry, and flowers of the viper's bugloss, umbels and 

 yarrow were taken for study. 



Beetles (Coleoptera). 



Owing to the long-continued dry weather beetles were very 

 scarce indeed, but one addition to the local fauna was recorded 

 in the shape of a puzzling Anobiid-like insect found burrowing 

 into the wood of a mountain-ash tree. It had the power of 

 lumping and turned out to be the little Anthribid, *Choragus 

 shepphardi Kirb. Amongst others Microglossa pulla was 

 found in a wren's nest near Holystone; Liodes glabra from 

 under bark, Harbottle ; Ptei'ostichus vitreus and Calathus 

 micropterus on the moors ; Longitarsus anchusce on the viper's 

 bugloss ; Platambus maculatus in the Holystone burn; Orchesia 

 micans and Cis bidentatus in fungi ; Necrophorus vestigator and 

 Slip ha rvgosa in a dead gull. 



Amongst other insects a flea Ceratophy litis newsteadi Roths, 

 from the wren's nest already mentioned, two spring-tails, 

 Sminthurus bilineattis and S. novemlineatus from heather, and 

 the common Thysanuran Campodea might be recorded. 



