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perhaps less so in a great degree than the other species which 

 formerly abounded. Yet the woods, 



" The coverts of old trees, with trunks all hoar, 

 And light leaves young as joy, stand where they stood." 



And they stand, as a whole, unaltered ; for though portions are 

 every year doomed to the axe, yet others are constantly grow- 

 ing up, and the woods have undergone these partial changes, 

 perhaps, for centuries. Thus much as to the locality. I must 

 now proceed to give a slight outline of our Entomology, — very 

 slight truly in all classes, save Lepidoptera^- — but my time is 

 too short to do more. 



In the Geodephagous Coleoptera, we have little to boast of; 

 in fact, with the exception of Dromius sigma, which Mr. 

 Waterhouse took here \diSi'w'\niev,a.n(}iAmsodactyluspcBciloides, 

 I cannot mention one rare species. The following genera have 

 not occurred here to my knowledge ; some of them, of course, 

 could not be expected to occur; but I mention all undoubtedly 

 British genera, to avoid ambiguity. 



Of Brachinus I never knew of but one specimen, and that 

 was B. crepitans, being taken near us. Of Agonum, Har- 

 palus, Sec. we have scarce any but the most common and 

 widely-dispersed species, unless A. sex - punctatum be an 

 exception. This splendid insect may now and then be found 

 running in the open parts of the woods, especially where the 

 underwood has been lately cut. 



In the Dytiscites, notwithstanding our want of streams and 

 large pieces of water, we are better off, as there are only the 

 genera Agabus, Hydaticus, Graphoderus, Leionotus, Cy- 

 bister, and Orectochilus, which we do not possess ; and of the 

 other genera we frequently take some of the more uncommon 

 species. 



