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Little Blue ( ChrysopHanus minimus) abounds in early June, w ith 

 a view to ' breeding-' the least British Butterfly. The pink}- larva 

 embeds itself cosily among - the 'flocks' of the capitulum, and 

 hybernates there, pupating- in April, early or late according- as 

 her calenture is pronounced or deferred ; to wing- itself, a living", 

 fluttering- bit of sky, as if dropt out of the azure, about the 

 gay, grassy slopes and banks which, above a yard or two, it 

 never leaves. Its small size and weak wing- power makes 

 it extremely 'local.' Up to 1881 it used to abound in a dozen 

 or more places on the rail-line side, a hundred yards or so west 

 of Wetherby Station, and at intervals in the 4 bays ' of the 

 cutting's, for a mile Linton way and Spofforth way ; in Kirk 

 Deighton quarry likewise, in thousands ; and, singular to say, 

 is capable of being- established where it has not ' got to ' if a big 

 patch of its food-plant can be found, e.g., on the kidney vetch 

 area close to Starbeck Station. How suggestive, that a tiny 

 thing like this can persist and perpetuate — yet not get away ! 

 Its food-plant is a calcicole, yet does grow on sandstone soil, 

 but only where it has been carried : a rare case, and parallelling 

 the- fly that needs it. Surely we have here a 'Light' on the 

 causes — the hidden laws that rule the constitution and distribu- 

 tion of living atoms ? On the aquatic Figwort (Scrophularia) 

 by the bridge at Linton some larvae of a Cuczilh'a, nearly full- 

 fed, blue-green and yellow, black-barred, were found. Whether 

 C. verbasci or C. scrophularice must remain undetermined until 

 the imagos emerge. 



Mr. M. Lawson Thompson went over the ground between 

 Wetherby and Collingham Bridge, meeting with the following- 

 species of Coleoptera. They are all more or -less common beetles, 

 and were found in their respective habitats : — 



Pterostichus vulgaris L. Brachypterus urticae F. 



Calathus cisteloides Panz. Meligethes asneus F. 



Anchomenus albipes F. Lathridius lardarius DeGeer. 



Bembidium punctulatum Drap, Enicmus fcransversus Ol. 



Trechus minutus F. AtQmaria analis Er. 



Oreetochilus villosus Mull. Elmis asneus Mull. 



Helophorlis brevipalpis Bedel. Adrastus limbatus F. 



Cryptopleurum atomarium F. Rhagonycha fulva Scop. 



Homalota elong-.itula Grav. Lema lichenis Voet. 



Philonthus trossulus Xord. Chrysomela lamina F. 



Oxvtelus rug"psus Grav. Phaedon tumidulus Germ. 



Oxytelus tetracarinatus Block. Longitarsus jacoba\e Wat. 



Adalia bipunctata L. Phyllotreta nemorum L. 



Coccinella 22-punctata L. Sph;erodenna tcstaccuni V 



Brachypterus pubescens Er. Crepidodera transversa M. 

 1901 November 1 . 



