278 CAPTURE OF INSECTS 



Ophiusa lusoria. — On the east side of Sir Henry Leslie's park, 

 adjoining the Beechwood. 



Polyommatus Cory don, P. Adonis, Pamphila comma. — All 

 very plentiful on the south side of Juniper-hill and in Norbury- 

 park. 



Hipparchia Galathea,Polyommatus Alms, Setina irrorella, 

 Aspilates gilvaria, Ptychopoda ornata, Margaritia jlavalis. — 

 On the first chalky bank, at the end of a wood on the left, in a 

 lane leading from Juniper-hall to Headley, about a quarter of a 

 mile from the principal road to Dorking. 



Deilephila porccllus, Agrotis corticea, Xylophasia sub- 

 lustris, Polia advena, P. tincta. — Captured from the flowers 

 of the Lychnis dioica and Silene inflata, with forceps, in 

 fields intersected by a foot-path leading from behind the 

 church, through a fir plantation, to Juniper-hill. 



Cerigo texta, Lytcea umbrosa, Heliophobus Popidaris. — 

 Banks of the river Mole ; in fields opposite a beech-wood, 

 divided by the river. 



Lithosia helvola. — Very plentiful on the west side of Box- 

 hill. 



Callidium violaceum. — Crawling on the gravel-walks, and 

 in the house, of a cottage-villa adjoining Mr. Haynes' timber- 

 yard. 



Tarus angularis, T. macularis, Lamprias nigritarsis, 

 Badister microcephalus, Licinus silphoides, L. depressus, 

 Bradytus marginatum, Harpalus thoracicus, H. ignavus, 

 Ophonus azureus. — Under flints, on the south-side of Box- 

 hill, facing Dorking ; Licinus depressus is in greater abundance 

 on the same continuous bank, more easterly, near a large fir 

 plantation, under flints on the grass eaten bare by sheep, 

 which it seems to prefer to more sterile situations. I obtained 

 upwards of three hundred specimens, frequently found in pairs 

 (in copula), from the middle of September until the latter end 

 of October. Licinus silphoides is more plentiful about a mile 

 west of Mr. Denison's house, in every field on the same 

 chalky ridge, which runs on to Guildford. In one stubble field 

 I found thirty-five specimens in a few hours, under large 

 pieces of chalk and flint. Unlike its congener, it seems to 

 prefer situations more or less free from grass, to expedite its 

 running after its prey, or otherwise. It is by far the commonest 

 beetle in that neighbourhood, and not periodical in its times 



