THE yOUNG 



NATURALIST. 



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picking these leaves a large quantity of larvae 

 may be destroyed. Other remedies are to- 

 bacco water, qnick-lime, and sulphur, dusted 

 on when the foliage is wet with dew. It is 

 is also advisable to remove the surface soil 

 very early in the spring from ground that has 

 been badly infested, as it will contain the 

 pupae. It is also a good plan to light smoky 

 fires and allow the smoke to blow over the 

 trees in April when the females are deposit- 

 ing their eggs. 



Raspberry. — Weevils ( Otiorhyncus 

 sulcatus and jnci^es) . — These two beetles are 

 particularly destructive to raspberry, vine, 

 and other plants, by gnawing away the tender 

 parts. 



Eemedies — Take a sheet at night and very 

 carefully place it under the bushes (or better 

 place it there the day before) and shake the 

 beetles into it. Destroy by boiling water. 

 The beetles lurk by day in the soil at the foot 

 of the trees and may be found and destroyed. 

 {To he continued.) 



COLEOPTERA, 1882. 



Thinking that a list of the beetles that I 

 have collected in this district may be of 

 interest to your readers, I subjoin the fol- 

 lowing list of some that I have collected. I 

 have not inserted all the species that I have 

 met withi^only some of the more uncommon 

 ones ; nor inserted any localities for reasons 

 that I do not care to explain. I may say 

 that any coleopterist of this district can be 

 informed of the locality of any particular 

 species, and I shall be only too happy to 

 supply types of any species that I have 

 collected in abundance : — 



Haliplua obliquus 

 n confinia 

 „ fnlvus 

 „ flavicollis 

 Hyphydrus ovatus 

 Hydroporus reticula' us 

 „ insequalis 

 „ septeutrioualis 



Holmalium nigrlcepa 

 „ csesum 

 „ florale 



Proteinus brevicollis 

 „ brachypterus 



Megrathrus depressus 



deuticollis 



„ memnomus 



planus 

 „ nigrita 

 „ augustatus 

 „ lineatua 

 Laccophilus minutus 

 Hybius ater 

 Agabua sturmi 

 „ uliginosua 

 „ paludosus 

 Philydrua melanocephalus 

 Enochrua bicoloj 

 Hydrochus augustatua 

 Oercyon obsoletua 

 „ aquaticua 



„ lateralis 

 „ terminatua 

 „ minutus 

 Homalota nygrotopora 

 „ vicina 

 „ plana 

 „ trinotata 

 „ triangulum 

 » nigra 

 „ fungi 

 Oonurus lividua 

 Cilea silphoidea 

 Megacronua cingulatus 

 Bolitobius trinotatus 

 Mycetoporus lucidua 

 „ splendena 

 lepidus 



Micropeplus margaritsa 

 Tychua niger 

 Eumierus tarsatua 

 Agathidium seminulum 

 Anisotoma calcarata 

 Choleva agilia 

 Hister carbonariua 

 Gnathoncua rotundatua 

 Saprinus nitidulua 



„ quadristuataa 

 Onthophilus sulciattia 

 Rbizophagua ferrugineus 



„ parallelocollis 



„ dispar 

 Silvanus surinamensis 

 Oryptophagua saginatua 



Atomaria pusilla 



„ mgnpennis 

 Monotoma spinicollis 



„ brevicollis 

 Sathridius ruficollia 

 Oorticaria deutioulata 

 Mycetse hirta 

 Aphodiua sardidua 

 „ nitidulua 



„ porcus 

 Cryptohypnus quadripustu- 

 Limoniua cylindricus [latus 

 Cyphon variabilis 

 Telephorus lituratus 

 Ptinua Uchenum 

 ,, fur 



*Quedius semiaenus, Steph. Ehizopertha pusilla 



„ boopa Cis boleti 



Leistotropbus murinus ,) villosulus 



Philonthus cephalotes Tribolium ferrugineum 



„ ebeninus Gnathocerus comutus 



„ bipustulatus Alphitobiua piceua 



„ trossulus Rhinosimua viridepennia 



„ nigritulua „ planiroatera 



Xantbolinus ochraceus Nacerdes melanura 



Leptacinus babychrus Pbyllobiua pyri 



„ linearis ^ oblongus 



Otbius punctipennia Tropiphorua mercuralis 



Stenus juno Hypera fasciculata 



Platystellethus arenariua „ polygoni 



„ comutus Hydromomus alismatia 



Holmalium teviusculum Scolytua destructor 

 „ fossulatum 



•Not in Sharp's list, it being a new species, it 

 should be marked 945 A. 



F. Kinder, 21, Othello Road, 



Stanley Road, Liverpool. 



