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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



[April 



"also found them by turning over pebbles in the bed of a dried-up 

 "mountain stream." — Young Naturalist, 1889, page 181. 



Pelophila, Dejean. — Derived from two Greek words signifying 

 " a lover of mud." Our single species, P. borealis, Payk., does not 

 occur in England, but the Rev. W. F. Johnson, Armagh, from whom 

 my series were obtained, appears to take it commonly in Ireland. 



Leistus, Frohl. — Greek derivation, a robber. Only one of the five 

 species in the British list can be said to be rare, and this, as its name 

 (L. montanus) implies, is attached to mountainous districts. Two of the 

 species are of a reddish-yellow colour [ferrugineus and rufescens), two 

 of a bright blue (spinibarbis and montanus, the sides of thorax in these 

 being distinctly red), and fulvibarbis is blue-black. 



L. spinibarbis, F. — The largest of the group; occurs at Esher, 

 Rainham (Essex), Woking, Box Hill, Eastbourne (on chalk), South- 

 ampton (in rotten trees); in Dover district, occasionally under stones, 

 &c. (C. G. Hall); common at Plumstead (West, Greenwich') ; 

 Storeton and Eastham Woods, under stones and at tree roots (R. 

 Wilding); Bath (Gillo); " Stourton, Wollaston, Preston, Burton, &c, 

 "all in Cheshire, also high up in the Welsh mountains; a very gre- 

 " garious species" (W. E. Sharp, Ledsham). 



L. montanus, Steph. — I have no record of this species being cap- 

 tured by any of my correspondents. 



L. fulvibarbis, Dj. — Occurs generally in localities under L. spini- 

 " barbis, " not so gregarious here, but occurs rather commonly under 

 " tidal refuse on the Mersey shore" (W. E. Sharp, Ledsham). 



L. ferrugineus, L. — Very common on banks of Thames, Teddington, 

 Kingston, &c; Wimbledon Common (Newbery); Combe; "among 

 "rushes in wet districts" (W. E. Sharp); " Common on the Crossby 

 " sandhills, in Eastham Woods, on Aigburth shore among reeds, &c." 

 (Dr. Ellis, Liverpool Coleoptera); "Crossby sandhills, at roots of grass" 

 (R. Wilding); Dover (C. G. Hall); Cumber sandhills, common ; Fair- 

 light, sparingly (W. H. Bennett). 



L. rufescens, F. — Banks of Thames, Wimbledon; Haswell, Cheshire, 

 under heath (R. Wilding) ; "with the preceding species at Eastham 

 "and Aigburth, &c." (Dr. Ellis, Liverpool Coleoptera); Hastings, " by 

 "sweeping after dark, sparingly" (W. H. Bennett); common in 

 Cheshire district (W. E. Sharp). 



