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melanopa, and Anthobiitm torquaUim. From beneath the bark of a 

 fallen tree we get Baptolmus alternans, and under it Calathiis piceiis and 

 Philonthus decoms; and from dead leaves and twigs shaken out over a 

 sheet of paper, were taken Megarthrus depvessus and M. denticollis, 

 LathrimcBim tmicolor, Xantholimis ochvacetis, Falagfia sulcatula^ and 

 several other common Staphs and minute species oi Atomaria. 



There are but few stones, and among the Geodephaga we can only 

 find here besides Calathus picetis, No. biguttatus in immense abundance, 

 Cavahus catenulatus and Metabletus foveola. Soon afterwards, as we 

 resume our march, we can feel rather than see that the ground is 

 rising, the oaks begin to give place to birches, these gradually thin 

 out, and we emerge on the top of a hill, bare and grassy. From this 

 vantage point we can see the forest sweep away on every side, far to 

 thg South is the long flat stretch of the vale Royal and that steep rock 

 rising from the blue mist being, as it were, between earth and heaven, 

 is Beeston, with its ruined castle. The hills of Flintshire are on the 

 Western horizon, but Eastwards all is forest land as far as eye can 

 see. The sun is lowering to those Welsh hills as we drop down the 

 other side of the hill. We beat some scattered broom in hopes of 

 Libioe, but only get some Sitones regensteinensis and S. tibealis, and 

 several Apiona, such as A. striahm, A. simile, &c. 



Along the road homeward we are surprised to take in a sandy 

 waste place, under stones, several Aniara fulva,-''- which we imagined 

 to be an exclusively maritime species. Bradycellus cognatus and B. 

 verbasci, and some common Ptevostichi and Amavce closed the day's 

 collecting. W^e have our bottles fairly well filled, as a beginner we 

 have added several new species to our collection, and provided in 

 their determination, occupation for many winter evenings — and at 

 moments on many morrows, in the midst of city life, we shall again 

 hear the shrill chatter of the jays and catch once again the warm 

 resinous perfume of the pines of Delamere. 

 Lidsham, Cheshire. 



Notes. 



Captures of Coleoptera. — On the i6th of June, the Botanical 

 and Entomological members of the Hampshire Field Club had a good 



,*I have taken Aniara fulva inland, at Aldershot, (Hants), Farnham, (Surrey), and 

 also at Esher, (Surrey), but only one or two on each occasion; these were in gravel 

 pits. — G.A.L. 



