i go THE BRITISH NATURALIST. jse PTEMBER 



Bythinia leachii in extraordinary abundance, only a few B. tentaculata 

 being found with them, this year I find more B. tentaculata and very 

 few B. leachii. On a mud bank of the same stream I got last year 

 large numbers of Limncea tvuncatula, on visiting the place lately I found 

 the mud thickly covered with Limncea, so I hung over the bank and 

 commenced gathering them, never doubting that I was getting 

 tvuncatula as of old, but on closer examination I found I had. nothing 

 but young L. pevegva ! W. A. Gain. — Tuxford. 



RANDOM NOTES ON BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY JOHN E. ROBSON, F.E.S. 



Gelechia figulella, Staud., in England. 



The July part of the "Entomologist's Monthly Magazine" (p. 158), 

 contains a brief notice by Mr. C. G. Barrett, f e.s., of the capture of 

 Gelechia (Bvyotopha) figulella, Staud., at Aldeburgh, Suffolk. " It was 

 captured on waste land or salt marshes near the sea, on the coast of 

 Aldeburgh, between July 6th and 20th, 1892,'' by the Rev. C. T. 

 Cruttwell. Staudinger found it at Chiclana, Spain. Mr. Stainton 

 bred it from a larva and pupae found in sand at the roots of some 

 plants of Silene nicceensis in a sandy wood near the sea at Cannes, and 

 Lord Walsingham has since taken a fine series from Mr. Stainton's 

 locality. It is not supposed to feed on the plant at whose roots Mr. 

 Stainton found the larva and pupae, but rather on some species of 

 grass. The plant in question does not occur in Britain. 



A COLEOPTERIST'S HOLIDAY 

 AMONG THE HILLS. 



BY W. E. SHARP. 



" Ille terrarum mehi praster omnes Angulus ridit." 



Hor. Car. II., 6 



In the north-west corner of this land of England there extends 

 right away from the heart of the Midlands to the frontier line of 

 Wales, the vast flat plain of the sandstones of the Trias, like a sea 

 spreading to the shore of dark Silurian hills, which form its western 

 boundary. Climb that escarpment, penetrate those recesses, and you 

 find an upland region of hills and tumultuous moorland stretching far 

 into the interior of Wales. Such elevations we will call the hills of 

 that country as distinct from its mountains — those loftier summits 

 which cluster in the north-west round the central mass of Snowdon. 



