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COLEOPTERA. 



Notes on British Geodephaga, with Description of 

 one New Species (Supplementary to Geodephaga 

 Britannica). 



(By J. F. Dawson, L.L.B.) 

 In taking a brief retrospect of the progress which has been 

 made in the discovery of additional localities for some of the 

 newly introduced and less commonly distributed species of 

 British Carabidm since the publication of the Geodephaga 

 Britannica, which have not as yet been publicly recorded , 

 I observe with satisfaction that that work has, in no small 

 degree, tended to awaken a more lively interest in a group 

 of insects, which I seemed to have taken under my more 

 immediate protection, but which had been previously some- 

 what neglected or but slightly appreciated by other parties. 

 Their attention, however, having been thus attracted towards 

 this interesting group, which will well repay investigation, 

 many of my Entomological friends have devoted their ener- 

 gies in searching those localities which are supposed to be 

 most favourable to their production. 



The result of their labours has been in no small degree 

 successful ; for though wc cannot boast of the discovery of 

 new species (with a single exception), yet many which at the 

 period above alluded to were almost entirely unique in pri- 

 vate collections, as Dyschirius impunctipennis, Anchomenus 

 scitulus and pelidnus, Sarpalus cordatus, Trechus incilis 

 and Bembidium obliquum and Clarkii, have since turned up 



