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habitat of the two latter rare species, as well as of Acalles and 

 CJioragus, was the bank bounding the sandhills on the inner side, 

 crowned with an ancient thorn edge; but this locality has unfortu- 

 nately been destroyed, and the Golf Club-house now stands on what 

 was the beat part of it. 



Any carcasses, whether of small animals such as rabbits, birds, or 

 fish, found on the sandhills invariably repay examination. The rare 

 and beautiful var. ciJiaris of Creophilus maxillosus, chiefly a northern 

 form, has been found in carrion by Mr. d. C. Champion, and Aleochara 

 lata, Staphylinus sfercorarius and caesarem, Philonthus spleiidens, Ne- 

 crophorm liumator, vestigator, ruspafor, inferrupfus, and vespillo, SilpJia 

 tristis, obscura, opaca, fhoraciea, and lodvigata, Hister 4<-maculatus, uni- 

 color,purpurasceiis, neglectus, hissexstriatus, Vl-striatus, and bimaculatus, 

 Onathoncus nanneteiisis, Saprinus immundus, rugifrons, and marifimus, 

 may be met with in and about comparatively recent carcasses more or 

 less commonly, while from drier carrion, JSFitidula rujipes and 4-pustu- 

 lafa, and Dermesfes fessellafus,maj sometimes be beaten in abundance. 

 Several of the above-mentioned Hisferidcs (which form quite a feature 

 of the sandhill collecting) may be found under stercoraceous deposits, 

 the sand beneath which often swarms with common Onthophaqi (nu- 

 chicornis,fracticornis, and z>«cca),and with Ap7iodii,oi which erraticus, 

 scyhalarius, foetens, nitidulus, sticticus, and lividus may be mentioned ; 

 while the local and scarce Heptaulacus sus* may sometimes be taken 

 commonly in this situation in August, and has been recorded (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., vol. ix, p. 193) by Mr. J. W. Douglas as flying to light in 

 the evening. 



The marshy meadows at the back of the sandhills yield their full 

 share of rare and interesting Goleoptera, and probably in no other 

 locality in the British Islands is the genus Donacia so copiously repre- 

 sented, both in species and individuals, as on the banks of the fresh- 

 water ditches which intersect these marshes. The abundance of these 

 beautiful beetles in June on the aquatic plants {Sparganium, TypJia, 

 Potamogeton, Arundo, &c.) is quite remarkable, and no fewer than 

 fifteen of our nineteen British species have been recorded from Deal 

 and its neighbourhood. Of these I have taken thirteen species in less 

 than an hour, a score of specimens of five or six species coming up in 

 one sweep of the net ; these include D. verdcolorea (on Potamogeton 

 natans), limbata, hicolora, thalassina, impressa (rather scarce), simplex, 

 vulgaris, clavipes (abundant), semicuprea, cinerea (not rare on Typlia 

 august if alia), sericea (most abundant and variable), braccata* (abund- 



