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overlooked the best. He must remain a little while at one stone, 

 and examine for five or ten minutes every square inch of its under 

 side, every unevenness, every crevice of it, and even then in a 

 yet unobserved chink a TyjMocharis will slowly and cautiously 

 raise its head, and make a wary step towards a cooler corner, 

 when suddenly some obstacle, which we at first sight take for a 

 tiny clod of earth or small splinter of wood, stops its way, but 

 which now shows signs of life, and extends first one and then two 

 legs, and appears still to be uncertain whether it shall con- 

 temptuously ignore the unexpected hindrance, or whether it shall 

 seek for itself another nook, where it may continue without 

 interruption its dolce few niente. This tiny clod of earth was 

 in reality a Crypharis, which in earth-coloured dress, with its 

 legs convulsively contracted under its body, thought itself secure 

 and undiscoverable in its retreat. Undoubtedly two of the 

 four specimens of my Crypharis tingitana were found in the 

 chinks of the stones ; and certainly one specimen, as I have 

 already remarked in the description, in the bulb of an Asphoclelus. 

 Anillus also was found in considerable numbers in the cavities 

 left by the stones, where, as soon as it encountered the 

 sun's rays, it dexterously made its retreat, and then could be 

 no more obtained ; whereas Typlocharis seemed to confine itself 

 almost exclusively to the under side of the stones. Besides 

 these eyeless beetles, there were found under the same stones, in 

 tolerably plenty, Ditoiniis gracilis, Scarites saxicola, Bon., Ditomus 

 cephalotes, and an Otiorhynchus allied to affaher ; more rarely 

 Chlcenius azureus, Hybaliis tingitanus, Adclostoma, and a Pedinus. 

 I probably visited this extraordinary locality ten times, and when 

 finally, near or far, there was no other stone to turn over, I had 

 the satisfaction of having carried ofi^ from their native fields 

 200 Anilli and 70 Typhlochari* 



(To be continued.) 

 * Extract from Berl. Ent. Zeit. xiv. (Translation communicated.) 



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