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The much finer punctuation alone of A.Jlai'ipes is suiHcient to 

 sliow that this Scotch species cannot be referred to it with propriety ; 

 though it is evidently closely allied to it. 



One of my specimens seems, in certain lights, to possess a faint 

 tendency to a dark brown humeral blotch. 



Smicrojsxx Eeichei, G-yll., in Schou. Gen. et 8pec. Cure, vii, p. 314. 

 Of this species, originally described from the south of France, 

 two British examj^les have come under my notice ; one, in very fine 

 condition, taken by Mr. E. A. Waterhouse in the early summer of 

 1871, at Folkestone, by sweeping on the top of the cliff at the com- 

 mencement of the Warren ; the other, larger, but much abraded, taken 

 in August, 1868, by Mr. Gr. C. Champion, by promiscuous sweeping 

 between Folkestone and Dover. This insect, on account of its robust 

 build and stout limbs, has much the facies of an unnaturally large ex- 

 ample of Taiiyspliyrus lemncB ; compared with its largest British con- 

 gener, S. jungermannice, it is rather larger, with a thicker and much 

 duller rostrum and much more thickly and coarsely punctured thorax ; 

 and, when in good condition, is densely clothed with large grey and 

 brown scales, which give it a tessellated appearance, much more con- 

 spicuous than in the slightly variegated and much more feebly built 

 8. cicur. 



10, Lower Park Field, Putney : 

 May, 1872. 



Capture of Carabus intricatus in south Devon. — A magnificent example of this 

 noble Carabus has been taken by my wife to-day, about two miles from Newton 

 Abbot, on tlie road to Torquay. It is. a female, and one of the finest I have ever 

 seen, measuring nearly 17 lines in length. It occurred beneath a log of wood, 

 amongst some large beech trees belonging to Sir Walter Carew, at Aller Bridge. — 

 T. V. WoLLASTON, Teignmouth : April ISth, 1872. 



Capture of Carabus auratus in London. — Last month, I found a lively specimen 

 of this somewhat dubious British species among some purchased radishes, which the 

 seller assures me are of English growth. — E,. BuRKT, Brecknock Street, Camden 

 Town : May, 1872. 



A new locality for Acrognathus. — On Saturday, the 27th April last, I caught 

 here a specimen of Acrognathus mamlibularis, flying in the hot sunshine. This ap- 

 pears to be the third locality in England where that rare species has been found ; 

 both the other places of its capture (Darenth and Epping) bemg also in the neigh- 

 bourhood of London. The insect's build and habit would scarcely lead one to 

 expect to catch it on the wing. 



Ciclndela sylvatica occm-rcd here as early as 13th April this year.— John Gkay, 

 €I;iYgale, Eslier : Mag, 1872. 



