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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



[February, 



to entomologists spending a holiday in the vale of " sweet Jenny Jones." 

 I should premise that the weather was fine and warm, and had been 

 so for a few days previous to our visit. 



Arriving at Llangollen about four p.m. on the afternoon of the 

 19th, we spent the remainder of the day in sweeping the herbage on 

 the bank of the canal and that growing by the roadside. The result 

 — so far as my own net was concerned — was : 



Homalota depressa, 

 Aleochara tristis. 

 Tachinus pallipes, 

 Homalium rivulare, 

 Lathrimaeum atrocephalum , 

 Coccinella 22-punctata, 

 Meligethes rufipes, 

 Onthophilus striatus, 

 Brachypterus pubescens, 

 Anisotoma calcarata, 

 Cyphon variabilis, 

 Prasocuris marginella, 

 Plectroscelis aridella, 

 Psylliodes affinis, 

 Thyamis fuscicollis, 

 ,, lurida, 



Phyllotreta nemorum, 

 ,, sinuata, 

 ,, tetrastigma, 

 Phaedon tumidulum, 

 Crepidodera rufipes, 

 Ceuthorhynchus quadridens, 

 Apion livescerum, 



„ fagi, 



,, onopordi, 

 Anthonomus rubi, 

 Erirrhinus acridulus, 

 Sitones sulcifrons, 

 Ceuthorhynchidius troglodgtes, 

 Tychius pygmaeus, 

 Sciaphilus muricatus, 

 Otiorhynchus ligustici. 



May 20th. — We spent a couple of hours or so in collecting among 

 the shingle on the river bank, which was absolutely teeming with 

 Bembidiae. Result : 



Bembidium decorum, 

 „ punctulatum, 



tibiale, 

 ,, atrocoeruleuin, 



Perileptus areolatus, 



Homalota currax, 



„ hygrotopora, 

 Bledius fuscipes, 

 Trogophlceus arcuatus, 

 Cryptohypnus dermestoides. 



Leaving the river we struck off for the moorlands, more especially in 

 the neighbourhood of Moel-y-Gamelin. Among our captures were 

 the following : 



Calathus micropterus, 

 Miscodera arctica (8), 

 Harpalus ignavus, 



,, latus, 



„ proteus, 

 Amara ovata, 



„ communis, 

 Badister bipustulatus, 

 Lathrobium multipunctum, 

 Actobius procerulus, 



Hister carbonarius, 

 Byrrhus fasciatus, 

 Onthophagus ovatus, 

 Aphodius sticticus, 



,, pusillus, 

 Geotrupes vernalis, 

 Agriotes sputator, 

 Corymbites asneus, 



,, holosericeus, 

 Cionus scrophulariae. 



