DO COLEOPTERA. 



ever having been captured in the localities assigned to 

 them. 



There is likewise another very promising district, which, 

 I believe, would well repay investigation, but which appears 

 to have been entirely neglected of late years. It is situated 

 on the north-west and northern coast of Norfolk, extending 

 from Heacharn and Hunstanton, and so on to Burnham 

 Market, Wells and Cley. In fact we know very little of the 

 Carabideous productions of the north-eastern counties, be- 

 yond a vague impression that several valuable species are 

 reputed to have been captured in those parts of the king- 

 dom, and perhaps on this hint some Entomologist may be 

 induced to study their productions more systematically. 

 There are likewise one or two remarks I have to offer on 

 the subject of collecting. We do not, I think, search me- 

 thodically enough. Most of these insects are nocturnal 

 feeders. During the day they remain concealed in crevices, 

 or at the roots of herbage, or under clods and stones, or 

 buried under the soil or anywhere that offers a refuge or 

 concealment, and are generally at that time torpid and 

 inactive ; at night they are alive and busy. It is a fine 

 sight to see them then, or just at daybreak, in some favour- 

 able locality rushing about in all directions and running up 

 and down the stems of herbage. Now, the very time when 

 they are most inactive and hidden we select for hunting them 

 out. In the daytime we turn stones and clods, and tear up 

 the herbage and rend it into fragments, and grub up the soil 

 to force them out, with great trouble and exertion, and work 

 as hard as any day labourer, yet incredible numbers entirely 

 escape all our researches. But we do not trouble ourselves 

 even to look for them at night when they leave their con- 

 cealment. The Lepidopterist works principally at night, 

 but the Coleopterist confines his labours too exclusively to 

 the daytime ; and, therefore, I would strongly recommend 



