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scraped meat. Like many other beetles too, they are also fond of drinking 

 sugared water. 



Now let us have another try. This large flat stone, lying in a ditch by the 

 side of a hawthorn hedge, seems a likely object to shelter a good assortment 

 of Coleoptera. Let us raise it. Yes, just as we thought, out runs a shining 

 black-beetle {Pterostichus madidus), and we see several specimens of Aleo- 

 chara fuscipes, so startled with the sudden light we have let into their abode, 

 that they apparently do not know which way to run ; and there again runs a 

 sooty, black, great rove beetle (Ocypus olensj, with his tail curled over his 

 back and his powerful jaws menacingly open. There is another species very 

 much like him in shape and size, but having grey elytra instead of black 

 (Creojohilus maxillosus). 



Here is a poplar tree, with lichen covered trunk. Let us search it round 

 for the pale green larva of Cleora lichenaria. Here is one, not feeding indeed 

 at the present moment on the lichens, but ensconced in one of the numerous 

 crevices in the bark. We may also find it on elm and other trees. It 

 may be readily identified by the two small protuberances on each of the last 

 eight segments. 



Now let us turn down this green lane. It is somewhat muddy at this 

 time of the year, but no naturalist cares for a trifle of that sort if he thinks 

 he can get specimens. Here is a young woolly bear caterpillar (Chelonia 

 caja) 3 which the mild weather has tempted out from the snug retreat in which 

 he has been hybernating. Here we find some stitchwort (Siellaria holoslea) 

 growing, and we see some of the leaves are mined by a pale-greenish yellow 

 larva of diminutive size, it produces a small moth called Gelechia bicolorella. 

 There is another species, white in colour, with a pale brown head, producing 

 a tiny brown moth, with orange coloured fascia on its fore-wings s and an 

 orange coloured head {Gelechia bifractella). It feeds on the seeds of the 

 common Fleabane, and also on Conyza squarosa. It is perhaps best to defer 

 collecting them until they have pupated later on, unless you like to dig the 

 whole plant up and grow it in a pot at home. 



There does not happen to be an old moss-covered wall hereabout or we 

 might find another species of Gelechia ( G. affinella) feeding thereon, I des- 

 cribed it last month and there is no need to repeat the description. 



We shall probably find several species of Coleoptera in this lane. 1 have 

 not space to enumerate the names of likely kinds. Such common species as 

 Carabus violaceus, and the sorts already mentioned are sure to be found, and 

 for the others I must refer you to the excellent articles on the Order which 

 have appeared in former numbers of this magazine. 



