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minute blind Coleoptera living beneath the immense boulders scattered 

 about this same oak-forest, for which purpose men had to be taken 

 from the village to assist in lifting the stones, carrying the sifted 

 earth, &c. As I had not prepared for serious vpork of this kind, more 

 time was available for general collecting, and I was therefore enabled 

 to secure specimens of many of the beetles of the district. Under the 

 large stones, in addition to the minute blind insects briefly alkided to 

 in a recent number of this Magazine {anteu, pp. 138, 139), a Percus 

 (sicuJus), closely related to the Corsican forms, was abimdant, and 

 with it occurred Calosoina sycojphanta, Carabus genei, Lcemosthenes 

 carinatus, Machmrites aymerichi, Medon apicalis and dilufus, &c. 

 The oak stumps and logs left by the charcoal burners harboured 

 amongst other species the following insects : Dorcus niusimon (the 

 sexes of which are so dissimilar as to appear specifically distinct), 

 Endophlieus sjjimdosus (in abundance), Colydium elongatum (in 

 jileuty), Teredtis nitidus, Brontes jdanatus, Silvanus bidentatus, Hy- 

 popMmus fasclatus, E later prseustus, Carpopliihis sexpustulatus, 

 Epurma obsoleta, Ij^s quadripustidatus, Platypus cylindrus, Xyleborus 

 saxeseni, Dryocwtes villosus, Sinoxylon sexdentatum, &c. On the 

 foliage of the oaks, &c., on the steep slopes, were found Helops genei, 

 Attelabtis carcuUonoides (varying to wholly black, var. ohsidiatms, 

 Costa), Phyllobius pilijies, Metallites parallehis, all in abundance ; the 

 remarkable Cryptorrhynchid, Camptorrhinus simplex, Brachyderes in- 

 canus, a Balanmus, Strophosomus coryli, Anthoiiomus spilotus, Caulostro- 

 phus delarouzeei, Ptinus atibei, Malthimis armipes, Sphimjinus apicalis, 

 Telephorus prxcox, Vibidia 12-gnttata, &c. In the small streams on these 

 slopes were found Ehnis damryi, and Hydraina evanescens, and subacii- 

 viinata. By sweeping the grass and low plants in the shady spots 

 beneath the chestnuts on the lower slopes were taken, amongst others, 

 the minute black Lycid, Thilnuinus obsmirus (peculiar to Sardinia 

 and Corsica), Homalisus nnicolor, Leistus sardous, and a Borboropora 

 ( ? reitteri, Weise) ; in these places an Asida (not yet determined) 

 occui'red in plenty, crawling on moss on the ground ; and Hetaerius 

 ferrugineus, in an ants' nest, and Bevelieria genei, both beneath large 

 stones. On the Umbelliferse and other flowers hereabouts. Valgus 

 hemipterus, Anthaxia crcesns, Attagenus fallax, Hadrotomci vari egata 

 TricJwdes alvearius, various Danaaea and Haplocnemus, and Cardio- 

 phorus ulcerosus, were more or less common, but the Longicorues were 

 conspicuous by their absence ; and from the hedges about the culti- 

 vated ground were beaten Otiorrhynchus koziorowiczi, Reitt. (det. 

 Solari) and 0. rugosostriatus, various Acalles, Hypera philanthus. 



