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Hatch ; at which locality Mr. E. W. Jansoii dug a dead specimen out of an old 

 hornbeam, some years ago. Here, then, is evidence of the species breeding in this 

 country ; and it may be asked, was not the parent insect of the dead specimen, in 

 all probability, a "Britisher?" 



Colney Hatch Wood was cut down some twenty-five years ago, but Walter's 

 Wood and Southgate Wood still exist, and they are both close to Colney Hatch. 

 About two miles from these localities, in the grove at Kentish Town, a fine specimen 

 of Ceramhyx heros was taken a week ago by Mr. Arthur Gates, who gave it to my 

 eldest son ; it was kept ahve for some days, and is now in my collection. Since this 

 capture, another specimen was seen by a friend in Camden Town, it had been trodden 

 upon and killed ; a third was taken at Wood Grreen, but I have not ascertained what 

 has become of it. 



Some one more learned in the geogi'aphical range of Ceramhyx heros than I 

 profess to be, will perhaps decide whether that insect is, or ever was, a native of 

 Britain. That it has been bred from foreign timber, over and over again, proves 

 nothing against the possibility of its having once been a common species in this 

 country. At the period to which I have alluded above, I apprehend that neither 

 Callidium violaceuni nor MonoJtamnius sartor was to be found in England, and such 

 was the case with a host of pine-feeding insects ; but it appears to me quite reason- 

 able to suppose that several forest insects that existed in olden times have, with the 

 destruction of the forest, either quite died out, or nearly so ; and, belonging to the 

 later category, is it not quite possible that Ceramhyx heros is one of the " Last of the 

 Mohicans ?" — Feedeeick Smith, 27, Eichmond Crescent, Islington : July, 1873. 



Stray captures of Coleoptera. — An unusually late spring, followed by a hot and 

 dry summer, implies generally an unfavourable season for Coleoptera ; and the last 

 three or four months, consequently, have afforded but little worth recording, so far 

 as my own researches have been concerned, in that Order. Nevertheless, a few 

 species have occurred to me (for the most part sparingly) which it may perhaps be 

 well to note. Thus I again fell in with Hydroporus minutissimus and Homalota 

 longula (both of them abundantly) at Slapton, where also Anthicus angustatus, 

 Philonthus punctus, and Paderus fuscipes just put in an appearance ; and other 

 Devonshire localities have afforded me Olihrus millefolii, Antherophagus pallens, 

 G-ymnetron rostellum, Coenopsis fissirostris, Ahdera bifasciata, Orchesia itndulaia, 

 Mordellistena pumila and hrumiea, Salpingus aratus, Scydmcenus Sparshalli and 

 elongatulus, and Calodera umbrosa. At Glanvilles Wootton, during the last ten 

 days of May, I met with, amongst other species, the following (some of which were 

 captured likewise by my friend, Mr. C. W. Dale, who continues to explore that 

 productive and well-worked locality) : Catops colonoides, Lwmophloeus duplicatus, 

 Epistemus globosus, Thoscus carinifrons, Tropidophorus carinatus, Erirhinus tremulce, 

 Thyamis nasturtii, Apteropeda splendida, Orchesia minor, Mordellistena ahdominalis, 

 Homalota elegantula, sylvlcola, and autumnalis, Othius myrmecophilus, and Stilicus 

 fragilis. At. Lyndhurst, in the New Forest, Anisotoma nigrita, Amphicyllis globus, 

 Trox sabulosus, Elater elongatulus, Tillus elongatus, Cleonus nehulosiis, Rhinoiiciis 

 denticollis, Leptura nigra and Q-guttata, and Trichonyx McBrlceli ; and in the Isle 

 of Wight, Liodes orbicularis, and Aiicyrophorus aureus. — T. V. Wollaston, Teign- 

 inouth : August, 1873. 



