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the late L. Phillips, Esq., " from Leman's ancient English 

 cabinet," and the same as one I had from the cabinet of the 

 late Dr. Abbot, said to be taken " by him in Bedfordshire:" 

 but, in looking over Mr. Haworth's collection, the insect in 

 question is ticketed Syrichtus, and is lighter than his Oileu5, 

 though very similar in markings. I was glad to find that 

 natural history is so much encouraged in the north, and hope 

 to see it so in the south. 



I am, Sir, yours, &c. 

 Glanmlle's Wootton, Sept 19. 1830. J. C. Dale. 



Art. IX. Notice of the recent Capture of Chrysomela ceredlis in 

 North Wales, By John Black wall, Esq. F.L.S. 



Sir, 



Considering the extensive commercial intercourse carried 

 on between this country and other regions of the globe, much 

 vigilance and circumspection are requisite, on the part of our 

 entomologists, in order to avoid the introduction of foreign 

 insects as British into their collections and catalogues ; since 

 it is well known that many exotic species ate conveyed with 

 facility to great distances in various articles of traffic. How- 

 far it may be deemed objectionable to enumerate as indige- 

 nous those insects which have been long introduced to our 

 shores, and are become thoroughly naturalised among us, I 

 shall not now discuss ; but that considerable caution should 

 be employed in the admission of new British species cannot, 

 I am persuaded, be insisted upon too strongly. Under the 

 influence of this impression, some of the ablest entomologists 

 of the present day entertain doubts as to the propriety of 

 giving that exceedingly rare and brilliant beetle, Chrysomela 

 cerealis, a place in the British Fauna; notwithstanding Mr. 

 Donovan, in his Natural History of British Insects (vol. iv. 

 p. 20.), includes it among the British Chrysomelae, on the 

 authority of the late Mr. Hudson, author of the Flora A^nglica, 

 &c., " who," he remarks, " appears to be the only naturalist 

 that has taken it in Great Britain, except the Rev. Hugh 

 Davies of Beaumaris, who also met with a specimen of it on 

 a mountain in Wales some years since." If the instances 

 of its recent capture among the mountains of Caernarvonshire, 

 in North Wales, which I am about to relate, should contri- 

 bute to remove these scruples, I shall feel gratified in having 

 directed public attention to them. 



On the 2d of June, 1830, Thomas Glover, Esq., of Smed- 



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