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loid.es , and a Quedius. A second 
shake had the effect of separating 
the tail from the body, without any 
results in the way of Coleoptera ; and, 
after that, shaking was at an end. 
Turning over some stones which 
lay on the sand, I captured a few 
specimens of Anchomenus viduus, and 
also another species, which I think 
is virsutus. Small Brachelytra were 
very abundant, and I caught a good 
many, including some curious species 
of Homalota, which I found under 
moss, growing on the old Roman fort 
on which is built the monument to 
the memory of Henry Bell, whose 
name is so well known in connection 
with our river steamboats. 
The view from the walls of the 
fort is magnificent, and the beauty 
of the scene was greatly enhanced by 
the brightness of the summer day. 
Far down the river Ben Lomond 
towered above the adjacent hills, 
snow-capped and clad in silver ; 
while close beside me, “ Dumbarton’s 
Rock,” stood boldly out against the 
clear blue sky. Dumbarton Castle, 
too, was visible, so closely connected 
with the name of Wallace, the hero 
of Scotland, whose ponderous sword 
is still to be seen within the walls of 
the ancient fortress. 
The banks of the river from 
Bowling to Dumbarton, arc but a 
succession of flats, or marshy bogs, 
overgrown with reeds, and these, I 
rightly conjectured, would yield no 
small quantity of Bombidiidta. Pick- 
ing up here and there, a few stray 
Per typhus littorale, nitidulum, and 
affine, besides some others, whose 
names I have not yet determined, I 
turned over a stone, and was agree- 
ably surprised by seeing a specimen 
of Cillenum laterale walking leisurely 
along, but he very soon found him- 
self in a glass bottle, along with 
some bruised laurel leaves. Re- 
membering my experience in the 
case of Trechus lapidosus, I went 
down on my knees ; and after passing 
about an hour in a reclining position, 
had the satisfaction to know that I 
had above fifty specimens of laterale 
in my pocket ; when these being as 
many as I wanted, I once more arose 
to my feet, with a peculiar sensation 
in my head, and a sort of mirage be- 
fore my eyes, in which Dumbarton 
Castle, turned upside down, occupied 
a prominent place. 
Striking up from the river side, 
in the dii’ection of Dumbrick Hill, I 
took, under stones, Clivina fossor, 
Badister bipustulatus, Abax striola, 
Amara acuminata, Calathns picc.us, 
Patrobus excavatus, and what I take 
to be P. septentrionis, Anchomenus 
anyusticolUs , and llarpalns pubesccns, 
along with two or three others of the 
same family. Elaphrus cuprous and 
Nehria Gyllenhalii turned up at the 
side of a mountain stream, out of 
which I also took a few species of 
llydroporus. 
Looking up in the direction of the 
castle, 1 saw a flash of fire, followed 
