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posing this species were indigenous to the European instead of the American 

 Continent, the above evidence vrould certainly have warranted us in supposing it ■ 

 British. The species is less bulky than C. arietis, with longer and much thinner legs, 

 and entirely ferruginous in colour, with the exception of four yellow bands on the 

 elytra, which are more or less darkened apically. — E. C. Rye, 10, Lower Park Field, 

 Putney, S.W. : January, 1873. 



Cajdures of Coleoptera in the Isle of Sheppy, cfe. — Although especially devoted 

 to the study of Lepidoptera, I have for some time been in the habit of bottling any 

 Coleoptera that I have met with, and which I have from time to time consigned 

 to my friend, Mr. Champion ; and, although, as might be expected, the greater 

 number have proved to be of universal distribution, a few rarer species have occurred, 

 of which I add a list, which may not be altogether uninteresting. Nearly all the 

 species mentioned have been found during the past season. 



In the Isle of Sheppy, I have found Polystichus vittatus, occasionally under 

 stones, clods, &c., and once or twice at the roots of trees, when digging for pupae ; 

 Lionychus quadrillum, rarely, in a salt-marsh ; Licinus sllphoides, several under 

 stones on the beach, just above high-water mark ; Zabrus piiger, plentiful, running 

 up grass-stems at dusk ; Aleoeliara sanguinea, lata and iilineafa, Oxypoda Water- 

 housii, Romalota pulchra and cinnamoptera, Sunins intermedius (very common), 

 Stenus ater (not rare), Cryptophagus ajffinis (common), punctipennis, and cellaris, 

 Atomaria peltata and fuscipes, Saprinus rotundatiis, Throscus ohtusus, Apion pxihes- 

 cens, &c., in stack-refuse ; Qxytelus insecatus, Phalacrus brumiipes and Sumberti, 

 Syncalypta Mrsuta, Scirtes orbicularis, Dolichosoma lineare (not rare, especially 

 towards evening), Hylades obscurtis, Litodactylus leucogaster, Sibynes primitus, 

 Apion conflueiis, Bagoiis inceratus, Erirhinus pillumus, Donacia dentata, &c., by 

 promiscuous sweeping on the tops of the cliffs, in salt marshes, on ditch sides, &c. ; 

 Choleva morio and nigrita, Cryptophagus setulosns (common, with swarms of ordi- 

 nary species), Triphyllits suturalis (plentiful), Tetratoma fangorum and Engis 

 humeralis (4) in fungi on elm trees ; Bledius spectabilis, common, burrowing in the 

 clay banks of brackish pools, and accompanied by dozens of Dyschirius saliuus and 

 a, tew politiis ; Ochthetius rufimarginatus &tiA Bayous j-etrosus (Walton) in refuse 

 on ditch-banks, rarely; Niiidula 4:-pustulata, common in a dead and desiccated gull, 

 hung up to scare small birds, and which repaid examination for weeks, until I had 

 quite beaten it to pieces ; JJermestes undulatus, not rare in carcases on the beach ; 

 Mycetophag us 4-guttatus and Phlaophag as sjiadix, each singly, crawling on stones 

 in the hot sunshine ; Opilus mollis and Cleriis fonnicaritis, also singly, under bark; 

 Telmatophiliis typhre, common between leaves of Typha latifolia, preferring those ■ 

 withered plants which had been attacked by Konagria typhm, and accompanied by 

 a few T. Schonherri and Homalota incana ; Lucanus cervus, a remarkably fine ^, 

 with enormously developed head and mandibles ; Sibynes arenarice, common in 

 sandy places on the beach, under Arenaria maritima ; Apion limonii, abundant at 

 roots of Statics limonium, in a salt-marsh, the ravages which it commits on its 

 food-plant being very obvious ; A. Schodnherri ; Ceuthorhynchideiis frontalis, com- 

 mon on Artemisia maritima, along with swarms of Thyamis absinthii, and, very 

 rarely, Mordellistena pusiLla; Ischnomera melanura, abundant in tlie Dockyard, 

 running about on wooden pavement in the sunshine ; Crepidodera chlorls, abuiulaut 

 on willows ; Bryaxis Waterhoiisii, rare, under stones on the shore. 



