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In one of the neighbouring peat-holes, further up the mountain, I was a 
tonished at finding Dytiscus maTginalis, which, beside his boreal brother, looke 
gigantic. Along with him were several of the common Agabi and Hydropori. 
On the slopes of the same hill I took Tar^ts vaporariorum, Symochus nivaU 
Trechus ohtusus, Calathus micropterus, and Otiorhynchus monticola ; the last mei 
tioned, along with Olistlwpus rotundatus, occurs on the very summit of high hill 
and also on the sea-shore. I suppose we must account for this in the same way i 
for the similar occurrence of Armeria maritima and Silene maritima. 
I may perhaps mention, for the benefit of those of other tastes, that tl 
attractions of Donegal are multifarious. Of ferns, Osmunda regalis is a commc 
one, growing in great luxuriance, sometimes in clumps 20 feet in ciroumferenc 
and 5 or 6 feet high. In the sea caves the fronds of Asplenium marinum attai 
the extraordinary length of 2 feet, and show some fine varieties. The rocks i 
mountain limestone are literally packed full of fossils; while round the chf 
the chough, with its glossy black wing and red bill and feet, flies in flights, wit 
an occasional sea-eagle, peregrine, and raven. — J. E. Somkkville, 11, South Par 
Terrace, Glasgow. 
Deleaster dichrous in Scotland. — I took a specimen of this insect in the b( 
ginning of June, flying at the entrance to the West-End Park of our city. This : 
rather a northern locality for it, though it has been recorded before in Scotland, 
believe. — lu. 
Occurrence of Apion cerdo near Newcastle-on-Tyne. — This fine Apion has bee 
taken sparingly in three widely separated localities in this district. I have, in va 
collection, specimens from Gibside, Gosforth, and Bothall, all taken on Vicia craca 
in July. These examples were taken many years ago, and I have often swept v 
the same insect since, but, looking upon it as merely A. craccw, it was general! 
allowed to escape. I have also noticed it to occur about Lanercost, in East Gun 
berland. — Thos. Jno. Bold, Long Benton, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Octoler 7th, 1868. 
Occv/rrence in Yorkshire of Phalacrus suhstriatus. — During the last week i 
July and the first week in August last, I met with this somewhat local beetle o 
one of our moor bogs, in some abundance, frequenting the flowers of the commo 
Bog Asphodel, Nartheciii,m ossifragum. Though widely distributed and abundar 
when it does occur, the insect seems by no means generally common. — T. Wilkinsoi 
6, Clia" Bridge Terrace, Scarboi'ough, September 14i7i, 1868. 
Ocmtrrence of Pseudopsis sulcatus at Scarborough. — My friend, Mr. Lawsou, an( 
I took a fine series of this interesting species, by sifting the refuse at the bottom 
of haystacks, in the months of January, February, and March last. It is a mos 
wretched creature to detect ; as it lies bo long on the sifting-sheet before it wi 
move. We found it in various localities in the neighbourhood. — Id. 
Capture of Sigara minutissima, Fab. — It may be interesting to some of th 
readers of the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine to know that this somewhat loot 
species has turned up here in some plenty, towai-ds the end of June and the be 
ginning of July, in Scalby Beck, amongst Confervas. The only recorded localitie 
that I know of, for it, are by Mr. G. R. Crotch, in the Cambridge Fens. — Id, 
