376 NOTES ON VARIOUS INSECTS. 



Art. XXXIV. — Notes on various Insects. By Ionicus. 



{Continued from page 178.) 



Sir, — In offering a few more remarks on the entomology of 

 Cephalonia and Corfu, I must limit my observations to a few. 

 of the most remarkable insects added to my cabinet in the 

 course of eight months in the former and four in the latter. 

 It is quite impossible, that in such a short space of time I 

 could make myself acquainted with its hst of insects. The few 

 entomologists there had not commenced their collections much 

 before my own ; and on meeting in Corfu, we found several 

 conspicuous species in each cabinet which were not to be 

 found in any of the others. 



4. Carabus Preslii is the only one of the genus which we 

 found. It was common in spring and autumn under stones 

 and rubbish in both islands. But if I was disappointed in 

 Carabi, I had the pleasure to find that they gave way to an 

 allied, and to me more interesting, genus, Procrustes. 



5. P. spretus was the most common of these. There were 

 likewise several varying very slightly in the form of their 

 elytra, and their smoothness or rugosity, which we could not 

 make out from Dejean. Some we felt convinced were new 

 species, particularly a male and female I caught together in 

 Cephalonia. In general appearance they so much resembled 

 each other, that we could scarcely consider them as distinct 

 species until the sexes of each were found together. They 

 appear first in spring, and again in the autumn, from October 

 till December. 



6. Calosoma auropunctatum. — I found one specimen of this 

 rare and handsome beetle in a limestone cavern not far from 

 Point Kobbo, in Cephalonia, on June 12th, early in the 

 morning. Amongst the brushwood of the high cliffs near this 

 cavern, the most conspicuous shrub was a large species of 

 spurge, most of which was completely stripped by the full- 

 grown caterpillars of the Deilephila Eupliorbice, some of 

 which I took home and bred. I had never before seen a 

 specimen of C. auropunctatum, but believe it to be the larger 

 variety. 



7. Cicindela littoralis. — Common about the bridge of 

 Argostoli, the Lixurie and Argostoli coast, on the sands, from 



