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gives Swansea as the place of the most abundant locality. It is, however, very 

 common on the Continent, and almost always to be found in the heat of the day 

 on umbelliferous plants. It is a remarkably comfortable-looking insect ; its head, 

 thorax, and shoulders, well-covered with a thick down of tawny hairs, give it the 

 appearance of a dull Scotch Terrier ; for it never evinces any signs of activity, 

 scarcely moving even a limb, apparently quite satisfied to slumber away its life 

 unmolested in its umbelliferous bed of flowers. 



Attelabres, or Clenis apiarius. — Said to be taken near Manchester, and has 

 been found in Coombe Wood and Dorking ; but, like the preceding, though rare 

 in England, it is of frequent occurrence on the Continent. I met with several 

 specimens. Its bright red, contrasted with the metallic blue of the elytra, renders 

 it very conspicuous. 



Carabus auratus. — A rare British species, or rather was supposed to be so — 

 recent search having found it to be even common on certain heaths. Its locality 

 on the Continent is in sandy places, where it may be seen occasionally darting off 

 at full speed like a locomotive emerald from beneath its covertine of a bush or tuft 

 of long grass. It is related of this, or its cousin-germain Calosoma sycophanta> 

 that one of the most celebrated French Naturalists was indebted to it for his life. 

 During the Peninsular war, as an officer of cavalry, when under fire, he saw one of 

 these splendid beetles running on the ground, immediately jumping off his charger, 

 and when in the very act of securing his prize in the folds of his foraging cap, a 

 round shot struck his horse, and would inevitable have deprived the rider also of 

 life or limb but for this fortunate circumstance. 



Musk Beetle ( Cerambyx rnoschatus). — Few insects even of the tropical re- 

 gions can rival this most beautiful beetle when arrayed in its bright, vivid, granu- 

 lated, green colouring ; for, singularly enough, the specimens vary so strangely, not 

 only in tint but size, that, but for distinctive marks, they might be considered 

 almost as belonging to different families. The specimen I captured on the conti- 

 nent, and the only one, was in the dark road, overshadowed by the dusky foliage 

 of those enormous Pines which form the forest surrounding the Alten Schloss, or 

 the Castle of Baden. Had it been of the comparatively dull colour of those I 

 have met with in England it might have escaped unnoticed, but its effulgent green 

 actually glittered on the ground and betrayed its presence. 



(To be continued). 



