ME ¥OUNG X AT UK A LIST 



203 



oiin Pki:l. " — Your article is unavoidably 

 fiowded out ; shall appear next week 

 us. 13.. Rathowen. — Thanks for your draw- 

 ing of the nest of the Gold Crest ; shall 

 be copied and returned. 



G. M., Gateshead. — Thanks for the larva 

 of A. crategi. We would be glad of a few 

 more from any of our correspondents to 

 increase our chance of rearing the species. 

 It is since dead. 



EXCHANGE. 



Vanted, one or two Ringed Snakes; Lepi- 

 •ptera or Birds' Eggs in exchange. — S. L. 

 osi.kv, Beaumont Park, Huddersfield. 

 membidiuni p.illidipeniic. — I shall be glad to 

 nd a pair of this species to any Coleopterist 

 io will send box and return postage. — (Dr.) 

 W . Ellis, i io, Everton Road, Liverpool. 



NOTES, CAPTURES, &C. 



Pen: Digging. — This morning I have 

 en out pupae digging with a friend, and we 

 t over a dozen. Is not that very good for 



|is time of the year 2 — B. l\ O'Neill, 



janor Park, Lee. 



K. Irriguata in the New Forest. — While 

 Imbling through the New Forest, with my 

 end Mr. Carrington, on the 17th April, we 

 ch captured a specimen of this rare pug. — 

 . G. Meek, 56, Brompton Road. London, 

 W. 



Hyssa Zonaria, &c, at New Brighton. — 

 can endorse Mr. Carter's statement (page 

 '>7, Y. X.) as to the abundance of Nyssiu 

 iiiiri.'. on the Wallasey Sandhills, on Good 

 riday. Oar Liverpool entomologists unani- 

 ously declare they have never known them 

 ) abundant as this Spring. Aphodius inguin- 

 us has also been very abundant on the 

 indhills, in dung, along with the common 

 rodro.uus, Conspurcatus , fiimiLirius , Scvbalarius, 

 id merdarius. — Jons W. Ellis, 101, Everton 

 oad, Liverpool. 



Bkmiudilm 1\\ Li.iniPKNN v. at Ckoshv. — - 

 Having occasion to go to Crosby, on the 

 Lancashire coast, a few miles north of Liver- 

 pool, on the afternoon of the 3rd inst. T I spent 

 about a.i hour on the shore among my old 

 friends, Bembidium pallidipenne, which I found 

 more abundant than I have ever known them. 

 I took three dozen specimen j in about half- 

 an-hour. I have no doubt this species occurs 

 on many parts of our coast, but it is difficult 

 to find unless you know hoi;: and that is as far 

 my experience is concerned ; by lifting up 

 small pieces of drifted wood and bark, lying 

 at high water mark, and looking on the under 

 side, when this beautiful species will he found 

 (sometimes as man)' as three on one piebe) 

 clinging to the under surface. When ex- 

 p >sed to the sun they seem quite dazzled for 

 a few moments, but if once they begin to run 

 it requires a long chase to recapture them. 

 They have a peculiar knack of half burying 

 themselves in the sand, by which means they 

 are easily overlooked. — lean. 



April Captures. — I have taken the fol- 

 lowing Larvae and Imago here during April, 

 the Geometra and Noctua larvse by night 

 searching. Larv.k: — 5. titkonits, plentiful on 

 hedge banks, &c. Z. fitipeHdula, abundant in 

 various stages in one locality, but has not yet 

 appeared in some of its usual haunts. 

 C. caj.i, abundant. Villica, scarcer. B. 

 quercus, plentiful. 0. poihtoria, plentiful. 

 0. sdfnbiicaia, a few on ivy and whitethorn. 

 R. crutcZgata, abundant, all sizes, on white- 

 thorn. A. prunaria one, hanging from black- 

 thorn. C. elingusiria, plentiful, in all stages, 

 on whitethorn, from which the smaller ones 

 hang ; exceedingly variable in colour. B. 

 repdndatd, plentiful, on whitethorn ; very vari- 

 able. C. obscurafa', fairly plentiful, resting on 

 grass near their food plants, Potevium sangu- 

 istorba and PoUtitilla Yip'tdns. G. r;tss:ita, one. 

 L. cohigsra, fairly plentiful, on grass banks. 

 hithargyria, fairly plentiful, as last. Liifdrajis, 

 abundant one night ; hardly any mice, on 

 sedge on the sandhills. T. fimbria, a few. 

 Orbona, abundant everywhere. N. hr/nnea, 



