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looking, certainly, anything but likely for it. I am sori-y the specimene obtained 

 are ajiparently all abraded, being nothing near so densely scaled as my original 

 specimen, from -which the siDecies was figured in the last ' Annual ' (there being 

 scarcely any signs of the ochreous scales). It also runs much smaller iu size than 

 I expected, averaging about that of Mecinus circulatus. 



I expect I was too late to get it in its best condition. June (the time of capture 

 of the original specimen) is probably the time to get it fresh ; and it doubtless soon 

 gets abraded.— G-. C. Champion, 274, Walworth Eoad, Loudon, S. : Sept. 4th, 1872. 



Captures of Coleoptera in Kent, Sfc. — The following notes on some rare Coleoptera 

 are partly supplemental to the last list published by me in this Magazine, and partly 

 the result of investigation in other localities subsequently visited. 



That the actual soil of a locality is not of great importance, if its situation be 

 good, the fact that I have reaped a good hai-vest from the margins of a little sallow 

 pit near my house here may show ; for, thou.gh the clay is of the stiffest wealden, 

 yet the insects of the green sand of the north side, and of the Forest of St. Leonard's 

 on the south, find here, I conceive, a "half-way house" within reach. Thus, among 

 the first that greeted me here were Bemhidiuin quadripustulatum and Sturmii (but 

 two of the first, however, and one of the second). B. olliquum, foimd on the Forest, 

 round gravelly pools, has not penetrated as yet to Rusper. Anchomenus versutus 

 seemed also a visitor; — Anch. gracilis, Conurus immaculatns, Donacia bidens, and 

 Stenus exiguus are among the more distinguished of the company, while Stenvs morio 

 (liitherto almost unique as British) seems to have effected a settlement, as I have 

 secured a moderate series from the above-named pit. Of this species, Mr. Janson 

 (its original recorder as British) had two, there is one in Dr. Power's collection, and 

 one in my own : Mr. Rye also te],ls me he has long had a specimen identical with 

 Mr. Janson's. These, however, are all the specimens I am aware of. 



Early iu the year, St. Leonard's Forest itself produced a few good things : viz., 

 EpurcBa parvula, under birch bark, Agathidium seviinulum, Fhloaocharis, Bitoma, 

 in abundance, Homalium planum, Leptura nigra and Stenus contractus, in their 

 respective habitats. 



A stay last summer at Eastry, near Sandwich, gave me an opportunity of cap- 

 turing many of the Deal sand-hill insects, of which I will only particularize the more 

 interesting, as the insects of that place have been so often recorded. Here I may 

 correct an error which has crept into the record of Omias pellucidus, in the Ent. 

 Annual, 1872, p. 45. The locality should be at Eastry. When I first foimd it, it 

 was in great numbers crawling in the sandy gravel by the side of the road. The 

 dead bodies of hundreds, and thoracic and femoral development of the males, testify- 

 ing to the severity of the struggle for existence. 



Of the very rare Athous difformis, I here got three males and one female, and 

 also Saprinus virescens, vainly mimiciug Phoedon coclilearicB, the larvae of which it 

 feeds on, upon beds of water-cress, over which Stenus major not rarely ran. Sweep- 

 ing produced two of a Ceuthorhynchideus, easily distinguished by its thorax con- 

 tracted very much in front, its cinereous elytra, and reddish tarsi ; this Mr. Rye 

 tells me is the species known here as hepaticus, Gyll. TelmatopMlus sparganii and 

 hrevicollis, Telephorus figuratus, Sunius intermedins and I'cederus littoralis may con- 

 clude the list, though by no means exhausting the good things taken here. 



