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produces Clirijsomela hcemoptera., Sermyla halensis, and Cteniopus sul- 

 phureus in plenty, and the prettily marked Crioceris asparagi and its 

 larva may usually be seen in some numbers on the asparagus in the 

 garden of the Chequers Inn. 



Searching in damp places is also most remunerative, though the 

 best of these, at the commencement of the sandhills close to the site 

 of Saudown Castle, has long been dried up, and several interesting 

 species vv-hich used to occur there, such as Anisodacti/lus poeciloides, 

 Stenolophus elegans, and others, have not been taken for many years. 

 It was here, too, that Dyschirius extensus, Putz* {elongatulus, Daws.), 

 still one of the rarest of our British Garahidce, was discovered as 

 British in 1854, but this has been more recently taken by myself and 

 others under rejectamenta in saline spots near the First Battery. D. 

 unpunctipennis, Daws., may be found abundantly in spring, burrowing 

 in damp spots in the large hollow known to the golfers as " Sandy 

 Parlour ;" I have recently met with a very interesting bright chestnut- 

 red, but quite mature form of this beetle, and with it occurs Bemhidiuvi 

 pallidipenne (a recent addition to the Kentish list of Coleoptera), 

 Bledius arenarius in abundance, on which the Dyschirius preys, and 

 Apliodius plagiatus — nearly always of the black form, niger, Gyll. — 

 the latter insect having apparently abandoned the usual habitat of its 

 congeners, and taken to burrowing in sandy mud like a Heterocerus. 

 Dyschirius politus, nitidns, and thoraciciis are also recorded from Deal, 

 D. salinus is not scarce in damp saline places, with the large and 

 rapacious Broscus cephalotes, Pogonus chalceus, Dichirotrichus ohsoletus, 

 Trechus lapidosus (not common), Cillenus lateralis, Beinhidium mini- 

 mum, normannum, and varium (the latter often in the greatest 

 abundance), Ochthehius margipallens, marinus, riifimarginatus, and 

 punctatus, Hovialota littorea and orhata, Trogophloeics halopkihis, 

 Heterocerus Jlexuosus, ohsoletus, and sericans. The interesting genus 

 Bledius is represented by B. spectahilis and tricornis, the latter some- 

 times occurring by hundreds in sandy mud, and easily detected by the 

 earth thrown out of its burrows ; B. opacus, not rai'e in damp sand, 

 and the two rare species, B. bicornis, which I have taken at Pegwell 

 Bay, and B. crassicollis,* recently found in some numbers in the 

 Hastings district, though previously to this capture, known only as 

 British from Deal. 



The bare hollows on the sandhills form most admirable "traps" 

 for beetles in favourable weather, but as nearly all of them have been 

 converted into " bunkers " on the golf course, the collector, in 



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