THE YOUNG 



NATURALIST. 



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narrow toothed bands, and sometimes one 

 or two small yellow spots at base. Antennae 

 black, first joint red underneath; legs 

 black. Length 2 lines. 



B. adustum. Elytra bronze, with broad 

 toothed yellow bands (appearing sometimes 

 as if the elytra were yellow with bronze 

 bands) ; legs yellow ; antennae brown with 

 five basal joints more or less red. Length, 

 2 lines. 



B. varium. Elytra bronze, with indis- 

 tinct yellow bands ; seventh stria not reach- 

 ing the apex. Antennae brown, with four 

 basal joints reddish. Length, i\ lines. 



B. flammulatum. Elytra bronze, with 

 distinct toothed yellow bands ; seventh 

 stria reaching apex. Antennae as varium. 

 Length, 2.\ lines. 



Of the above species, adustum and obli- 

 quum are decidedly rare ; while flammula- 

 tum, varium, ephippium, prasimm, and 

 punctulatum, are all fairly common, but 

 local, frequenting damp places, in the beds 

 of rivers, among shingle, &c. 



b — Sirice "becoming fainter at the sides and 

 apex. 



1. — Elytra entirely black. Length, i£ 

 lines. 



B minimum — Antennae entirely dark. 

 B Schuppelii. 



B gilvipes. — Antennae with two basal 

 joints red. Gilvvpes is longer, and has the 

 thorax more narrowed behind than Schup- 

 pelii The legs of the latter insect have dark 

 femora, while in gilvvpes they are entirely 

 yellow. 



Minimum is common in muddy places, as 

 on the banks of rivers ; gilvvpes is not very 

 common, while Schuppelii is rare. 



2. Elytra black (or dark green and 

 length 1 1 lines ) tvith a round red spot 

 near th e apex of each. 



B. Sturmii. — Elytra black, with several 

 small yellow spots on the front half. Length 

 i\ lines. 



B. doris. — Black; furrows between the 



eyes converging towards the mouth. Length 

 i£ lines. 



B. assimile. — Head, thorax, and elytra 

 dark green ; thorax much narrowed behind. 

 Length, ii lines. 



B.Clarkii. — Head, thorax, and elytra dark 

 green ; thorax not much narrowed behind. 

 Length, 1^ lines. 



None of these species are at all common, 

 while Sturmii is scarce. Of their habits I 

 know nothing. 



A VISIT TO ST. HILDA, 



By C. W. Dale, Glanvilles, Wootton. 



Having long wished to pay a visit to this 

 famous isle, I left Oban on Friday, July 

 27th, in the Hebridean, about ten o'clock in 

 the morning. After going the usual course 

 through the Sound of Mull and past Isher- 

 mory, we bore to the left ; and after paying 

 a visit to the Isles of Call and Tiree, arrived 

 at Barra, where we stopped and went on 

 shore for a couple of hours. Turning over 

 a few stones, I met with Carabus catensu* 

 latus, Abax striola, Nebria brevicollis and 

 Otiorhychus rugifrons Crambus cuhnellus 

 was also there. After leaving Barra, we 

 reached Lochboisdale, in South Mist, about 

 midnight, where several of the passengers 

 landed for fishing, a capital hotel having 

 been built there. Next, we stopped at 

 Lochmaddy, in North Mist. After leaving 

 Lochmaddy, we bore round to the left, 

 calling at Obbe, the southernmost part of 

 Harris. Then we steamed away straight 

 for St. Kilda, and after a passage of six 

 hours on a beautifully smooth sea, arrived 

 at the tight little isle at four o'clock on 

 Saturday afternoon. The captain gave me 

 four hours on shore, which I utilized by 

 investigating its entomology. The isle, 

 which is very bare, is closely fed down 

 with sheep and cattle. The cliffs, which 



