190 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
Noctua Glareosa. Common at sugar. 
„ Triangulum. Do. 
Polia Chi. Three ; do. 
Agrotis Agathina. One; do. 
Xanthia Cerago. Six; do. 
Calocampa Vetusta. One ; do. 
Triphaena Fimbria. Common ; do. 
— James Wingate, Dunallan Cottage , 
Bridge of Allan ; Avgust 29. 
CoLEOPTERA. 
Leislus montanus. — In answer to Mr. 
Hodgkinson’s communication in the 4 In- 
telligencer’ (No. 151, p. 104), I beg to 
mention that Leislus montanus has been 
found under small heaps of stones in 
September, on the ridge or shoulder of 
Cader Idris, and that it has also been 
taken on Croagh Patrick, in Ireland. — 
F. Walker, Grove , Highgate; Sept. 1. 
Gravesend. — On the 12th of August 
Mr. Gorham and I had a day’s collecting 
on the river-bank, by the Fort (Kentish 
side), and found no cause of complaint 
on comparing captures, except that the 
stones were very hard to move. It being 
the first time that I had seen (alive) many 
of the species found there, I was much 
pleased, especially as several were in 
countless profusion. Pogonus chalceus 
and Harpalus pubescens (both varying 
extremely in size and colour) literally 
swarming under the stones close to the 
water’s edge, and even under sea-weed, 
accompanied by three or four species of 
Anthicus and divers underdone-shrimp- 
like animals, which skipped about di- 
agonally in the Australian boomerang 
curve. The two Geodephagous species 
above-mentioned were invariably to- 
gether, and never encroached upon the 
upper tier of blocks, under which number- 
less Harpalus obscurus and still more 
abundant Brachitius crepitans were 
always to be found, and with them Har- 
pains puncticollis (including its very 
small var.), II. rubripes, Dromius g/a- 
bratus (in some heat-cracked places so 
plentiful as to look like coarse gun- 
powder strewed about), Bembidium nor- 
mannum and pusillum, Ocrjpus aler and 
Mgrmedonia canaliculala ; all common. 
Having taken both sexes of B. crepitans 
both in spring and autumn, at the Isle 
of Wight, Brighton, &c., and never 
having hitherto found it act up to its 
name, I was much delighted to find these 
Gravesend gunners ready to salute on 
the slightest provocation (possibly by 
reason of their proximity to fortifica- 
tions) ; frequently on turning up a stone 
a dozen or more would be uncovered, a 
scattered file-fire being the immediate 
result, some small and consequently pug- 
nacious males giving four or five shots, 
apparently on the revolver principle. If 
torpid a little digital irritation would 
almost always cause a volley, — a decided 
whitish vapour and pungent smell of 
“ Brachinine” (if there be such a che- 
mical body), appealing to other sensoria 
besides the ear to corroborate the pro- 
priety of the Bombardiers’ title, hitherto 
considered by me as merely a brevet- 
rank. Among the better species were 
the following : — 
Harpalus sabulicola 
„ depressus 
Pterostichus picimanus, 
Amara couvexiuscula 
Bembidium rufescens 
Notiopliilus substriatus, Waterh. 
Achenium depressum 
Bledius tricornis 
Hister 4-maculatus 
Apion limonii 
Cassida salicorniaj, Sleph. 
„ nobilis, Sleph. 
„ splendidula, Steph. 
— E. C. Rye, 284, King's Hoad, Chelsea, 
SJV. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Double Broods . — 1 had the eggs of 
Psilura Monachu hatched on the 20th of 
