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March .3rd was productive of Apliodinn contdiiiiiuitutt, Cocrinella mu- 

 tabilis and Curabits cdtennlalm ; three or four Endntin/rlms corcineiis were 

 also taken. The locality of Jan. 11th was again visited on Mai'ch llith, 

 with the following result: — Dromiim aijllis, two dozen Cliviiui fossor, 

 Ldthrobinm cloiKjdtitiii, Aphod/i(.s jjrodroinns, and various Apions. The 1 8th 

 and I4th were spent in a chalk-pit, in which was a little pond about 

 four feet in diameter, and from wliich I took Hudroporm dorsdlis, pa- 

 Itistris, pldimn, j/raiiw/ar/.s (?), lineatas and Iialcnsis, Ildliphis obliqiius, 

 Di/tiscm^ maryiudlis, Acilins sidcdtiis, Coh/mbctes fusnis, two dozen Ai/dbus 

 nebulosm, and 53 Atjdbm^ bipusfuldtus, which swarmed, also Ili/drobins 

 /usri2)es, AudCdend hmbdta and cdriabilis, Ilydrochus eloiu/dtns, Bcrosns 

 dffinls, and one Meloi' rioluceus. On the 16th, under oak bark, I 

 took Ithizophdgus bipHsiidatns and two Soronia pnnctdtissiiiid. The 

 sallows were in blossom this year as early as the 20th of March, on 

 which day I took 40 Erirhinus macidntus from them in half-an-hour, 

 and the next evening, Dromius melanocephdlus and liupdris and Oxyielus 

 rugosHs. Gorse appears to be very attractive about this time of year, 

 and Ldthrimieuin un/color, CoccineUd vdriabilis and "I'i-punctata, Apion 

 immune, Sitones linedtns and rcgensfeinpusis and Flcclrocelis concinna were 

 all in the umbrella. I have heard many lepidopterists raise an ob- 

 jection to commencing the study of the Coleopteka, on account of the 

 want of " sport." Of course there can be, in no other order of insects, 

 the sport — " exhaustive " sport — to be obtained by chasing Colids edusd 

 or Vdiiessa c-dlbnm for a mile or so (thank goodness I). But all the ex- 

 citing uncertainty of sport was experienced, when for the first time in 

 my life I turned up Ciclndeld campestris on March 24th, and, as their 

 resting places were being walked over, up they would get, and be off, 

 double, and be off again, like the flash of an emerald in the bright 

 spring sunshine, and so suddenly that it required a very keen eye and 

 supple wrist to take them on the wing. Sdpha rngosd was common in 

 dead Tdlpa vidgdris and Angnis frdgdis, CoccineUa \8-gattdtd on fir- 

 trunks after dark, together with Helops stridtus. At Eaydon, two days 

 later, I took 4 J Ft inns fur and a Niptus crenatus from weasels dried 

 in the sun, Phi/Uotretd brdssicae and Nofiojihdns biguttdtus. Cicindela 

 campestris, Deriuestes murinus, Nitiduld bipjustulata turned up on 28th. 

 At Woodbridge, Geotrupes typhceus and Tiiiuirehd coriarid were seen on 

 the golf links. About now, common things began to come on fast. 

 On the 31st March, I took thirty species (about a hundred specimens), 

 among the best of which was CoccineUd oblongo-guttdta, R/ii/nchites betu- 

 leti, Thyamis brunne<i and vielanocep)ltdlus. 



Woods on the 1st of April produced various Hdrpdli, Bembidium 

 lampros, Silp>ha thorncica and Necrophorns vwrtnorum. 1 again entered 

 •the chalk-pit on the 3rd, and, in addition to most of the preceding, 

 took Ldccophilns hy(dinus, HeJophoras grduiduris and Ileloelidres liridns, 

 and on the 4th, Anchonicnus dlbipes, Gyrinus iiidrinus and ojxieus. while 

 Meligethes rnfipes, dcneHS and viridcscens were common on the fiowei's 

 of the little celandine, Bembidiuiu brunnipes, turned up in a sand- 

 pit the next day ; Jlyphydrus ortilus, IhdipJas luiricgatus, Helopfiorus 

 aqudticus and Aphodius grdiidrius were taken on the Gth. Sixty llyUistes 

 ater from pines on the 7th. On the 8th a dead rat yielded Creo- 

 philus nidxilosus, Pliilonthus sp>Jendens, Laihrobinm clongdtiiiii, Ilister 

 cadavdrinus, Sdprinus nitidulus and dcnens, Omositd coloit and \itidnld bi- 

 pustnlata. The first Mefabletes foceohi were taken on April lUth, together 

 with Necrophorus humator from a mole, and Cassida obsoleta flying in 



