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southern districts. All the additions which have been made 

 to specimens which were previously wholly unique or very 

 sparingly distributed in our collections are attributable to the 

 persevering exertions and enterprise of my Entomological 

 friends south of the Trent, whilst, as far as I have been able 

 to ascertain, nothing whatever material has been done in this 

 group by the northern Entomologists. If otherwise, the facts 

 have not been communicated to me. It is true, that Ela~ 

 plums Lapponicus and Anchomenus fulg ens have again been 

 captured in some numbers in the localities previously re- 

 corded ; but of the recently introduced and rarer species, as 

 Dyschirius jejwius, Anchomenus 4-punetatus, Trechus lon- 

 gicornisy Bembidium Schuppelii and Stomoides, we have no 

 additional record. Nevertheless, upon the whole, I think 

 we may consider that an important advance has been made 

 in the investigation of this group of Coleoptera. The mere 

 fact of so many species, heretofore perfectly unique or nearly 

 so in British collections, having been found in some abundance, 

 is of itself no little gain ; and, in the hope that next year's 

 "Annual" will record captures still more important and 

 extensive, I proceed to the principal object of this paper, 

 viz. an enumeration of the less commonly distributed species 

 of British Carabidce, with the new localities and dates of 

 capture, which have occurred since the publication of the 

 Geodef)haga Britannica, in April, 1854. 



Drypta emarginata, Fab. S. El. i. 230 ; Dawson, Geod. 

 Brit. p. 4. Ten specimens have been captured by Dr. Power 

 and others during the months of July and August, 1855, on 

 an old hedge-bank by the side of a corn-field, near Alver- 

 stoke, Hants ; and three by A. Adams, Esq. at Rowner, 

 about three miles inland. 



Dromius 4-signatus, Dej. Spec. i. 236; Dawson, Geod. 

 Brit. p. 10. This insect was captured many years ago, and 

 by no means sparingly, by Dr. Power, in the months of 



