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THE FLORA OP WARWICKSHIRE. 
meal the larva generally proceeds to deepen his hole, has another 
rest, and—if he can get it—another meal, and so he goes on until seven 
or ten inches is reached, and there, after slaying numberless ants, etc., 
he changes to a pupa. The beautiful bejewelled Tiger-beetle emerges 
in June and July provided with terrible jaws and a most pleasant 
perfume, which exudes when the creature is handled. 
I have found four and five holes in a circle of three inches’ diameter, 
the bores running parallel to each other; but should a larva attempt to 
enter the home of its neighbour, there is a fight immediately. The 
owner has the best of it, and with a grin (if they do laugh) makes a 
meal of the intruder. Anyone desirous of studying this most interest¬ 
ing creature will be well repaid the little trouble in the first search, 
and find that there is a vast amount of knowledge to be obtained by 
carefully thinking over “ the why and the wherefore ” of such 
apparently insignificant things as “ holes in the sand.” 
I might just mention that since I captured Atypus Siilzeri 
(Trap-door Spider) here, I have found another large colony, by 
observing which I have proved beyond doubt two most important 
and hitherto unrecorded “links” in the economy of this Spider. 
THE FLOEA OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
AN ACCOUNT OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS 
OF THE COUNTY OF WARWICK. 
BY JAMES E. BAGNALL. 
(Continued from page 138.) 
COMPOSIT^E {continued). 
LACTUCA. 
L. virosa, Linn. Strong-scented Lettuce. 
Native : On banks. Very rare. July, August. 
I. Roadsides, Stonebridge, Bree, Part., ii., 372 ; Maxtoke, Blox. 
II. Railway near Willenhall, Kirk.; Chesterton ! Burton Bassett, 
H. B. ; between Bunchurch and Willoughby, Blox., MS., 
N. B. G. 
This plant has not been known to occur in any of the abovenamed 
stations recently. 
L. muralis, Fresen. (Prenanthes muralis. Purt.). Wall Lettuce. 
Native : In woods, and on banks and walls. Local. July, August. 
I. Sutton Park; Middleton ; Merivale ; Hartshill; Arley; Maxtoke ; 
Stonebridge ; Packwood ; Solihull, etc. 
II. Between Middle-town and Sambourne; between Washford and 
Mapleborough Green, Purt., ii., 376 ; Mellos Lane and Vineyard 
Lane, Warwick, Perry FI., 65 ; Allesley ! Meriden! Bree, 
N. B. G.; Kenilworth ; Woodloes; Rowington ! H. B.; Salford! 
Rev. J. G. ; near Frankton Wood ! R. S. R. ; Chadshuut ; 
Edgehill! Bolton King ; Alveston Pastures; banks near Preston 
Bagot. 
SONCHUS. 
S. oleraceus, Linn. Smooth Soiv-thistle. 
Native : On banks, by waysides, in cultivated land, Ac. Common. 
May to September. Area general. 
