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Cooke informed me that this species had not previously been taken in Britain 

 since 1825, when it was found by Mr. Curtis, in Scotland. Behind the 

 castle I beat out of hazel Goniociena pallida ; AptJiona herbigrada, the latter 

 not common. I took Dacne (Tritoma) bipustulata on decayed oak, in a wood 

 near the Eglwyseg rocks. 



I must call your attention to the Eglwyseg rocks, which have become fam- 

 ous as the locality for the following insects, which may be taken there at 

 sugar about the beginning of J uly : Mamestra furva, M. abjecta, Agrotis 

 pyrophila, A, lucernea, and A. Ashworthii. On the summit of the Eglwyseg 

 rocks is a pine wood, which is deserving of attention. I found a larvse of 

 Geometra papilionaria, on hazel, near Castell Dinas-Bran. 



About the latter end of May and beginning of June I have taken the fol- 

 lowing beetles : Quedius auricomus, in moss growing in streams and water- 

 falls ; Stenus Guynemeri and Dianous mrulescens. To obtain these, press the 

 moss under water for a few minutes, when the beetles will come to the sur- 

 face to see what is the matter. Under stones on the edge of the streams, and 

 near the waterfalls, I have met with Listera pubescens, L. punctata, and L. 

 SharpiL Beating gorse bushes produced Apion ulicis, Crepidodera rufipes, 

 and CryptopJiagus vini. 



I have found a single specimen of Miscodera arctica, together with other 

 common beetles, on Barber's Hill. 



On Sisymbrium officinale, always covered with dust, growing by the road- 

 sides, by beating into the sweeping net I have obtained Phyllotreta atra, 

 Psylliodes cupro-nitens, CeuthorrJiynchus cyanipennis 3 C. contractus, C. quadri- 

 dens, &c. On Lamium album (white dead-nettle), by carefully beating into 

 the net I have taken Meligethes difficilis freely, and M. Kunzei rather rare. 

 On the leaves of the mallow I got Apion ceneum, A. radiolus, A, rufirostre ; 

 and on Scropkularia nodosa, I found Cionus pulchellus and C. scrophularice. 

 (Mr. Sidebotham met with Cionis similis and C. blattarice, I believe, on 

 Mullein.) 



On a putrid fungus, one of the Polypori, growing on a tree root by the 

 road-side, going towards Yalle Crucis, I once found a large number of species, 

 viz. : Dacne (Engis) rufifrons, in abundance ; Agat/iidium varians, sparingly ; 

 Epuma deleta, freely ; Bolitobius alricapillm, B. exoletus and B. pygmceus, 

 freely ; B, trinotatus, sparingly ; Scap/iisoma agaricina, freely ; and several 

 species of Homalota and Gyrophmna. On the opposite side of the road was 

 another fungus of the same kind, in which the same species of beetles abound- 

 ed. When once this fungus, which grows very generally in the neighbour- 

 hood, attacks a decayed tree it never leaves it while there is any left. 



Erom a turn in the Ruthin road a stile path leads to the wood behind 



