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The NATURiiLisT. 



Patelloe and Tecturoe in shallow basins of sea-water, crawling as if the 

 bright rays of the sun torrified them, from which it was evident that 

 the Patelloe travel much quicker, and cause the shell to oscillate some- 

 what. Chiton cinereus occurs about loose stones sparingly, Littorina 

 rudis, L. obtusata, and L. littorea are well represented, some of the 

 latter being large. Both Trochus cinerarius and T. Uneatus occur ; 

 amongst the former are distributed forms varying from the flattest to 

 the most conical, due to the zones it inhabits. 



Whilst searching for these in one of the pools, we noticed a com- 

 motion amongst these and several other molluscs which was of too 

 brisk a nature for their well-known and characteristic slowness. 

 When the obscuring sand which they had thrown up in the fray had 

 settled, we saw that the shells were principally in possession of hermit 

 crabs, which under this guise were attacking a Purpura lapillus and 

 dragging it from its shell. We caught the whole school at once and 

 transferred them to a collecting-bag ; the shells occupied were ]}^assa 

 pi/gmoea, Trochus cinereus, Littorina littorea, three sizes, and a P. 

 lapillus, the sheik of the party, for he was taken red-handed. We 

 presume to think that if their object had not been frustrated, there 

 would have been ere long a mutual exchange of crab's clothing. 



On the west cliff, and thence towards Sandsend, we searched for 

 land shells, taking Helix caperata and excellent specimens of the var. 

 Qvnata as abundantly as the type ; S. pulchella and its var. costata 

 rarely. H, sericea two taken ; H. wirgaia, H. rotundata, H, nemoralis, 

 Cochlicopa luhrica and the var. lubricoides, Zonites cellarius, Z. alliariuSj 

 Z. nitidulus, Z. crystallinus, and the following coleoptera : — Badister 

 hipustulatus, PterosticJms eryihropus^, Crepidodera salicarice, Apion pisij 

 and Chrysomela dajphylcea. 



A walk over Sneaton Moor to Falling Foss in Little Beck, six 

 miles from Whitby, will repay the sightseer in scenery, or the collector 

 of coleoptera, hymenoptera, or lepidoptera. The conchologist finds 

 so little that it is useless looking, but of the former order we took 

 Cicindda campestris, the tiger beetle (which occurs not uncommonly), 

 Geotrupes star cor arius^ G. sylvaticus, and near a larch wood, G. vernalisy 

 Carabus catenulatus, Quedius cruentus, Aphoditis contaminatus, and several 

 common forms. 



At Robin Hood's Bay is another rich hunting ground^, on the out- 

 skirts of which the following beetles were added : — Bembidium later ale, 

 OUstJiopus rotundatus, and AncJiomenus albipes ; in a small horse-trough, 

 L. peregra, the shell not large, but possessing a somewhat straight 

 marginal mouth ; nothing beyond Z. purus was added to our list of 



