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in the brackish marsh and lives among shoals of sand hoppers, its only 

 companion on this occasion on this occasion was Pogonus chalceus. 

 Under stones higher up among the dryer shingle we have here taken 

 Trechus lapidosus and Amara fulva commonly, to day we can only find 

 T. minutus tnd A apriciaria and some common Bembidia, Bradycellus 

 verbasci and Metabletus foveola. 



A little further on, the land runs out in the marsh in a rocky head 

 and under stones at its base we find numbers of Anchimemis marginatus, 

 also Ocypus mono, Aleochara languinosa and another unidentified 

 Aleochara, Xantholinus punctiilatus and under some rotten seaweed one 

 Aphodius granarius. 



In the fields above this head that rather uncommon Chrysomela 

 Gcettingcensis has been taken. Under stones, more in the mud are 

 Anchimemis albipes and numbers of Dyschirius salinus half hidden in 

 their burrows in the clay. 



If we had time to wander further out from the coast line and work 

 the sandy banks of the creeks and gutters of the marsh we should find 

 probably Dyschirius nitidus, also several Bembidia such as minimum 

 and varium commonly and perhaps Manner Jiemi and Nonnanium 

 besides two or three Bledii, but as we round the sandstone head the 

 sun is already sinking somewhere behind the Welsh hills and a bitter 

 touch in the wind reminds us that the spring is early yet, so we have 

 only time to secure a few more small staphs such as Homalium striatum, 

 Quedius vufipes and maurorufus, Himalota circellaris, analis, aterrima 

 melanaria and nigra, Oxypoda opaca and a few common Stent, and 

 under the bleaching bones of a drowned sheep one Silpha rugosa, 

 and leaving the exploration of the outer marsh for some later 

 occasion, we take the style path up through the pastures on to 

 the high land again and so on past a grey farm with straggling time- 

 worn buildings into the road along which we came. 



As we walk home the thrushes pipe loudly from the bare ashes, 

 but the yellow hammers and the chaffinches have gone, and as we cross 

 the meadows towards home we only hear the fitful wail of the plovers 

 which even in the dead of night a chance footstep will awaken. 



Our take or rather those we have noted amount to some 66 species, 

 of course most of them are of the commonest, the only ones new to us 

 and to the district being Corymbites ceneus and Homalota angustula, 

 but the afternoon has been a pleasant one and in attempting to repro_ 

 duce it for the readers of the Y. N., the writer must apologize to the 



