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far otherwise. Long tongues and ledges of rock run across the bay from 

 the Linney side, and besides forming a protected and highly appreciated 

 feeding ground for the more littoral species, appear also to catch the drift of 

 deep sea species brought along by ocean currents. The result is that the 

 beach under the rocks is covered with a gravel, mainly composed of shells 

 and their fragments. Murex, Littorina, Cyprcea, Nassa in myriads, mingled 

 more or less frequently with various species of Scalaria, Pleurotoma, Defrancia, 

 Rissoa, Odostomia, Trochus, Emarginula, Fissurella, Lacuna, Eulima,Cerithium, 

 Trophon, Marginella and Cerithiopsis, all dead of course, and mostly rolled, 

 also abundance of valves of Nucula, Pecten pusio and tigrinus, Cardium, Circe, 

 Area, and Venus. Ovula patula, Trophon barvicensis, Defrancia teres and 

 Leufroyi have been found here, and one Trochus exasperatus. But among 

 all this extraordinary wealth of species and individuals, living or perfect shells 

 are rarely found. The rocks, however, produce Tectura virginea and Trochus 

 /meatus living, end sometimes fine specimens of the handsome white variety 

 (Lyonsii) of T. zizyphinus. 



Beyond this bay — Freshwater West — the coast becomes again rocky, and 

 in a few miles reaches the mouth of Milford Haven, a " natural boundary," 

 which acts greatly to limit investigation in that direction, and which for 

 its own productions can hardly be treated of at the fag end of a paper. 

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THE ENTOMOLOGICAL YEAR. 



By ALERT H. WATERS, B.A. 



APEIL. 



Bright Spring has corae 

 With genial sunshine and refreshing showers, 

 The erst-while leafless boughs as if they woke 

 Anew to life, put forth their tender leaves, 

 And with their verdant beauty charm our eyes ; 

 Now too, the worms appear, whose mission 'tis 

 To check the herbal increase, lest the plants, 

 Which carpet green the earth, should grow too thick, 

 And crowd and crush each other out. 



April they tell us comes from the Latin word Aperire to open. With many 

 entomologists this is really the opening one of their season, so that to them 

 the name is very appropriate. Possibly many of those who read these pages 

 — although they may have done a little now and then during the preceding 



