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denotes that some few will make their 
appearance next month. Polyomrnatus 
Alsus, Adonis and Agestis are full out; 
Melitcea Cinxia plentiful. Specimens of 
Sphinx Ligustri are picked up by children 
in all directions. Selina irrorella and 
Arcl.ia villica are just out. In many 
places the whitethorn hedges are eaten 
bare by the larva of the Brown Tail 
(Liparis Chiysorrhcea). Plenty of things 
attend the sugar on some nights, but 
nothing worth recording yet. L. albi - 
colon found on the sand-hills. 
Aspilates Citraria, 
Lozogramma lineolaria, 
Antielea rubidaria, 
Harpalyce galiaria, 
Timandra emutaria, 
„ imitaria, 
Bradyepetes amataria, 
Tortrix speetrana, 
Eupcecilia sodaliana, 
„ udana, 
„ huinidana, 
Argyrolepia maritimaua, 
Cocbylis gigantana, 
The females of Depressaria Alstrcemeriana 
are now depositing their ova on the 
Coniurn maculatum ; in some cases the 
young larva are feeding in spun-up 
leaves : this insect enjoys a much longer 
period of life than is allotted to others; 
they are to be taken from J ulv to J une, — 
eleven months of the year. Numbers of 
cases of Coleophora troglodytella on the 
leaves of the Eupatoria Cannabinum , and 
Pteropkorus microdactylus on the same 
plant, now out in plenty. Any one 
wanting the last two species can have 
them by sending a box with return 
postage. — H. J. Harding, Noah's Ark , 
Peter Street, Deal ; June 13. 
COLEOI'TEBA. 
Beetles in Sand-pits . — As the season 
advances, insects, like ourselves, begin to 
wander in search of prey, and the air 
seems full and the earth teeming with 
these active little wanderers flying and 
running to and fro. Numbers there are> 
however, which we seldom see on the 
move, among beetles especially, as they 
only travel by night, concealing them- 
selves by day under stones, at the roots 
of plants, &c. But if there happen to 
be any pits in the neighbourhood, into 
those pits some of these night wanderers 
will most assuredly fall, and falling 
therein cannot get out, unless they use 
their wings, which beetles in such situa- 
tions seldom seem to do. Sand-pits 
especially are excellent beetle-traps, more 
so than chalk-pits, as the looseness of the 
soil baffles all attempts to scale the walls 
of the trap. This the ant-lion seems to 
know to his advantage. Sand-pits in this 
neighbourhood I have found very fruitful. 
Amongst others I have taken the fol- 
lowing : — 
Clivina fossor (in abundance). 
Pterostichi (several). 
Falagria sulcata. 
Ocalea picata, 
Atemeles emarginatus (from the jaws 
of an ant, bravely attempting the ascent 
with the beetle in its mouth). 
Xantholinus fulgidus, 
Lathrobium bruunipes. 
„ elongatum. 
„ lorigulum. 
Apion subulatum ? 
marchicum, 
violaceum, 
carduorum, 
rufirostris, 
virens, 
nigritarsis, &c. 
Haltica brassicae, 
Thyarnis pusilla, 
Chaetocnema aridella, &c. 
Also Throscus dermestoides (perambu- 
lating the base of the walls) and Leio- 
somus ovatulus in abundance. The car- 
nivorous portion of this assembly seemed 
to enjoy itself at the expense of the 
vegetarians, the Rhynchophora and Cy- 
clica, who were evidently not by any 
means suited to their tastes. Numbers 
