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THE YOUNG NATUEALIST. 



Ostrea flabellula 

 „ gryphina 

 „ vectiensis 

 „ velata 

 Paludina angulosa 

 „ concinna 

 „ lenta 

 Panopsea corrugata 

 Planorbis discus 

 „ elegans 

 „ enomphalus 

 „ lens 

 „ obtusus 

 „ rotuudatus 

 „ playstoma 

 Pleurotoma Headonensis 

 innex 



„ plebeia 

 Potamides acutum 

 „ concavum 

 „ duplex 

 „ margaritaceum 

 ,, pseudo-cinctum 

 „ trizonatum 

 Potamomya gregarea 



„ plana 

 Psammobia compressa 

 „ rudis 

 „ solida 

 Tellina ambigua 

 Yoluta depauperata 

 „ luctatrix 

 „ spinosa 



NOTES ON THE COLLECTING SEASON 

 OF 1887* 



By G. A. LEWCOCK. 



The season of 1887, though somewhat discouraging at the outset, was on 

 the whole rather a successful one. Owing to the wet weather I was unable 

 to start operations until May 30th, and the outlook even then was not at ail 

 promising. However, I started early, as is my usual custom, taking train 

 from Waterloo en route for Subiton, in company with Mr. Cripps, proceeding 

 through the fields to Claygate, Oxshott, and Esher. The foliage was much 

 too wet for beating so we contented ourselves with searching, occasionally 

 varying this by sweeping. While engaged in exploring the bark of a felled 

 tree I captured two specimens of Eypulus quercinus—mt\\?x a good insect; 

 Mr. Cripps in the meanwhile getting Leistus spinibarbis and Anchomenus 

 mosstus. The captures in the sweeping net were useful but not numerous, 

 and included Tanymecus palliatus, Cneorrhinus exaratus, Lebia cMorocepkala, 

 Alophus triguttatus, Grypidius equneti, Orobites cyanius (a beetle one might 

 well mistake for a black seed), Balaninus tessellatus, and several Ceuthor- 

 hynchidius troglodytes, which is generally a very common insect, though not 



* Read at the City of London Entomological and Natural History Society, Jan. 5th, 1888. 



