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I'HE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
made a spring at it and reached it, only 
undergoing immersion in the mud and 
water up to my waist! This settled my 
uight’s work, especially as I had already 
filled nearly all my boxes, and 1 made 
the best of my way to my lodgings, glad 
enough to get my clothes dried. The 
next moruing I set ofi', at 5 a. m., and, 
wiser by my evening’s experience, I took 
a boat, and searched for the larvae mining 
in aquatic plants. Larvae of O. Spar- 
ganella were there by hundreds, and the 
Carex-mining larva, Gelechia arundine- 
tella, was also in plenty. After breakfast 
I returned and found Papilio Machaon 
flying in great plenty, and I also took 
about forty fine specimens of Melitcea 
Artemis. At last I observed an insect I 
had never seen fly before ; this I quickly 
captured, and it proved to be Caenonympha 
Davus ; this is a new locality for this 
insect: I took two more of it in the finest 
possible condition. My clothes being by 
this time dried I was able to resume my 
proper habiliments, and then went off to 
the Brnndall Station, whence in due 
time I arrived home, and have since 
shown my captures to my entomological 
friends here ; and so ends a night and 
days collecting in Ramvorth bogs . — 
W. WiNTEii, Aldeby, near Beccles ; 
June 20. 
COLEOPTERA. 
Carabus arvensis . — On the 20th inst. 
I took this species, in fine condition, 
around Sty Head Tarn, basking in the 
sun at 7 a.m., and on the same evening 
I again met with it on Borrowdale Stake, 
at the head of the pass into Langdale. 
On the 22nd inst. I took one specimen 
of Carabus glabratus on Coniston Old 
Man. — C. S. Ghegson, Fletcher Grove, 
Stanley, near Liverpool; June 24. 
Cis fuscatus . — I have lately been busy 
trying to set out a number of this tiny 
Cis, to whose appearance in my cabinet 
“ hangs a tale,” which I will append for 
the information of your readers. In 
March, 1859, 1 was collecting in Windsor 
Forest, and seeing a fine boletus on an 
old elm, cut a piece off for my collection : 
it was then perfectly dry and sound. 
Lately, on looking at it, I was surprised 
to find it lying in a heap of black dust. 
On further examination I found it per- 
fectly decayed, and, shaking it over a 
sheet of paper, out tumbled a dozen 
specimens, also a few C. nitidus and 
Boletophagus agricola. I sent a few to 
my friend Mr. Rye, who has assured me 
it is this species. — R. Tyrer, jun.. Hill 
House, Eye : June 25. 
Sweeping, ^-c . — During the few days 
that I have been able to get out in 
this most miserable weather, I have taken 
the following insects by beating white- 
thorn and hedges, sweeping meadow- 
grass, See.: — 
Aplotarsus Quercus. Nettles. 
Cionus Blattariae. Do. 
Donacia dentipes. Do. 
... Typhas. Water-plants. 
Ptinus imperialis. Hedges, flying. 
Saperda cylindrica. Meadows. 
Ci'ccinella 16-guttata. Do. 
Catops truncatus. Do. 
••• angustatus. Do. 
Clytus arietis. Dry banks. 
Malachius equestris. Whitethorn. 
Tiresias serra. I bred this insect from 
a larva or pupa obtained last Good 
Friday in an old elm. It w'as about three- 
quarters of an inch long, and covered 
with long grey hairs, had six legs 
and ran very fast. From this, without 
undergoing any change, the perfect insect 
emerged on the 3rd instant. 
Cyphon lividus. Whitethorn. 
Dasytes icratus. Do. 
Leptura rulicornis. Do. 
Anaspis d-injtculata. Do. 
... biguttata. Do. 
... melanopa. Do. 
... thoracica. Do. 
June 21. Found an old fungus of 
last year, as hard and dry as a board, 
on an elm tree: with difficulty I broke 
