DO COLEOPTERA. 



in considerable numbers, whilst others, which, though they 

 have not equalled these in point of rarity, were nevertheless 

 of somewhat unusual occurrence, have been discovered in 

 positive profusion ; as Lebia cyanocephala, Callistus lunatas 

 and JBembidium doris. 



Of novelties we have not much to record. The most im- 

 portant is a very remarkable Dyschirius, which will be de- 

 scribed in this paper. Two examples were discovered by 

 Mr. Syme, in April, 1855, near Sandown Castle, Deal. It 

 was captured (I would observe) not in a new and unexplored 

 locality, but on a spot of damp ground frequently and care- 

 fully searched in previous years, by my self and others, and one 

 which I had indicated to Mr. Syme as being a favourite resort 

 of the Dyschirii. In the very same hollow and beneath the 

 very stones which had in those previous years been found to 

 yield a good harvest of insects (though not perhaps at that 

 precise season), this new British Dyschirius unexpectedly 

 made its appearance. And I seize upon this fact as offering 

 a fresh inducement to Entomologists by no means to relax 

 their efforts in the examination of known and frequented lo- 

 calities, under the impression that their stores of species must 

 have been exhausted, nor to confine their labours to one or 

 two particular seasons of the year, since even in such places, 

 as it is seen, novelties may eventually turn up to reward 

 their assiduity. 



I would also call the attention of Entomologists to other 

 localities, which, in former times, bore the character of being 

 the very metropolis of insect life, but which have in more 

 recent years been little explored, or entirely neglected. 

 When we read of the reputed productions of Devonshire, for 

 instance, we naturally demand to know whether cultivation, 

 that greatest foe to the Entomologist, has so entirely changed 

 the character of that county (so favourable to the develop- 

 ment of insects) that it no longer produces such much prized 



