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very fine specimen of that insect. — W. H. 
Allchin, 7, Pembridge Villas, Bags- 
water; Sept. 28. 
Captures at Light. — Since the com- 
mencement of this month I have taken 
the following insects at light: — 
Agrotis Sanciu, 
Hydifficia Micacea, 
Nonagi'ia Fnlva, 
Xanthia Ciirago, 
Ennouios Euscantaiia, 
„ Tiliaria, 
Camptogramma Flnviala. 
The last mentioned I have taken in 
April, July, August and September; 
thus adding another to Mr. Gregson’s list 
of months in which it has been taken. I 
have also taken Triphcena P'imbria and 
Timandra Imitaria this month ; surely 
they imisl have mistaken the time of 
year. — C. G. Barrett, 37, Park Street, 
Mile End; Sept. 23. 
Captures near Torquay. — I have taken 
the following species at Torquay during 
the last four weeks; — 
Stilbia Auomala, 
Caradrina Exigua, 
Agrotis Saucia, 
Heliophobus Hispidus, 
Epunda Lichenea, 
Pyrausta Cespitalis, 
Mecyna Asinalis, 
Ennoinos Erosaria, 
„ Fuscantaria, 
Camp t(r g ra in m a G e m m aria , 
Dosithea Immutaria. 
— Eumcnd Squire Norcombe, 5, Salu- 
tary Mount, Heavitree ; Sept. 22. 
Coleoptera. 
Beetles at Lee. — On the afternoon of 
the 12th iust. Dr. Power called on me, 
and proposed an excursion to the favourite 
hunting-ground known as “the sallow 
pit,” in the fields at Lee. The pond, the 
beloved retreat of water-beetles, is no 
more, — the heat has been too much for 
it, and its fluids have evaporated. It 
might have been thought that the Hydra- 
dephaga had gone off to “ fresh fields and 
pastures new,” and so doubtless some of 
them have, but others, of a clannish 
nature, still hold on to the place of their 
nativity, their last refuge being a little 
hole containing about a paillul of water 
and a foot of mud. This reservoir, hid- 
den by Sparganium, was accidentally 
discovered by a boy, who, while rushing 
away from some angry bees whose nest 
he had wantonly destroyed, put one of 
his legs into it as far as the knee; when 
he drew it out of the Stygian compound 
his equanimity was consideiably dis- 
turbed as well as a quantity of ciirburetted 
hydrogen. But the scent that disgusted 
him delighted us two beetle-hunters; as 
his face fell our hoj)es rose, and our ex- 
pectations were not disappointed, for out 
of the muddy hole four dips of the net 
brought about two dozen of Colymbetes 
Grapii. It was impossible to clean them, 
so they went, dirty as they were, into the 
prison ready for them, where they looked 
like veritable bottle imps. The other 
beetles fished out were few and of com- 
mon species, so that the elite Grapii had 
had it all their own way in their elysium 
until they were so rudely intruded upon. 
By the lime the net had been four times 
examined there was not light enough to 
distinguish any more of the black hexa- 
pods on so dark a ground, and although 
doubtless many more remained in the 
hole they got only a terrible fright. Just 
when the discovery of their retreat was 
made, we had become aware that the 
warm and still air was full of flying crea- 
tures rejoicing in the twilight ; those that 
were caught were chiefly Hydrobii and 
Philhydii, but there were also a few good 
StaphylinidoB. To close this inverted 
story, I may say that we began our re- 
searches by hunting among the debris on 
the ground, and were rewarded with 
Stenus solulus, S. impressus and Ancho- 
menus gracilis. When winter and water 
return, and the beetles are concentred 
in the tufts of grass, we hope to get more 
