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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, 
goes its larval metamorphosis, and whieh 
generally contain the cast-skin, are very 
common. — I bid. 
A Night on the Fells in April. — During 
the winter I arranged with Mr. Butler, 
of Kendal, to have a night or two on the 
Fells with him in spring, and so on the 
22nd I found myself at Kendal, fully 
equipped for anything, from fossil hunting 
to fishing, sallow hunting to sugaring, 
larva hunting to birds’ nesting, all in- 
cluded, and found him ready and anxious 
to be off. We were, accompanied by his 
friend Mr. Roxbourgb, who proved an 
excellent assistant. Our route lay over 
Kendal Fell to Brigateer, thence under* 
Coot Scan to Low Fell, Underbarrow; 
I have collected upon this rough Fell in 
June and July with satisfaction to my- 
self, and so felt desirous of testing its pro- 
ductiveness in spring. • Once on the Fell, 
umbrellas out, one beats, another holds 
umbrellas, the other examines the debris, 
and the result is no end of small larvae 
from the junipers — Geoinetrina, Tortri- 
cina and Tineiua, including Thera Coni- 
ferala of Curtis. Tired of this we took 
to mothing at dusk ; the captures were 
Larentia multistrigaria, one Phibalap- 
tergx polygraminata, and one specimen 
of Eupithecia Helvelicaria. Mr. Kox- 
bourgh now led off down the centre of 
the Fell with sugar, we following him, 
one looking at the sugar, the other larva 
hunting. On the crags and slopes sugar 
wasted its sweetness (truly “ in the de- 
sert air”), and when larva hunting be- 
came useless, as it did after 1 1 p.m., we 
re-crossed the Fell to some sallows we 
had marked under Coot Suair: here the 
usual sallow-feeders were found, but not 
abundant. Orthosia munda was par- 
ticularly well marked, but what we 
marked most were the beautiful P. pohj- 
grammata sijrping supper on the sallows; 
as I had never seen the species alive 
before, I marked it the first red-letter 
day of the season 18(50. When there 
was nothing left on the sallows, except 
Scotosia dubitata, we reluctantly turned 
our faces towards Kendal, jolly as chil- 
dren whose day had been all pleasure. — 
C. S. Giikgson, Fletcher Grove, Stanley, 
near Liverpool. 
COLEOPTERA. 
Badister peltatus. — On the 9th of April 
I made a hurried foray upon the haunts 
of this hitherto very rare species, near 
Boston, in Lincolnshire, where a most 
valued correspondent (W. K. B.) — now, 
alas ! retired to sterner duties — discovered 
it two years ago, the only other know'ii 
locality being H — mm— th M — sh — s, 
— a place whose name is, and has been 
so often, spoken and written about that 
it is a very household word amongst all 
metropolitan wielders of the bark-knife 
and digger. Here, environed by bricks 
and mortar, some five or six examples 
have been taken at long intervals, and 
well do I remember the awe and wonder 
with which I viewed a single specimen, 
captured under the very noses of neigh- 
bouring Coleopterists, and exhibited at 
the Society by one of its most able and 
fiery members; many a fruitless hunt 
and longing expectation has that speci- 
men caused me, and many a luckless 
little Anchomenus fuliginosus has been 
bottled to make sure of not rejecting the 
rarer species in the hurry of collecting. 
What then was my delight, when, guided 
to its original Lincolnshire haunt, I bud 
the vast pleasure of taking a real live 
Peltatus myself.^ Words could not de- 
scribe it; so I did not say much about 
it, but worked hard, and finally look up- 
wards of seventy specimens between two 
o’clock and five; the weather not being 
hot by any means (in fact, it snowed 
nearly all the time), there were no strag- 
glers out, but I soon found the way to 
get the insect was to slice the banks with 
a knife and expose under-ground nooks 
and corners ; at one time I had as many 
as six in my hand at once. Wearied at 
last of taking Peltatus (us a man must 
