NOTES ON BRITISH GEODEPHAGA. 71 



March and April, in a small thicket close to the river Cam, 

 on the left hand side of the footpath leading from Cambridge 

 to Granchester, not far from the latter place. Dr. Power 

 shook a single example out of moss from Dulwich Wood, 

 in 1854, and Mr. Grant has taken a few from under the bark 

 of old apple trees at Putney, in the months of November 

 and December of the same year. 



Lebia cya?iocephala, Linn. F. S. 794 {Carabus) ; Daw- 

 son, Geod. Brit. p. 18. This insect was found in profusion 

 at the beginning of August, 1854, at Buckland Hill, near 

 Reigate, by brushing the Hypericum perfoliatum ; but not 

 a single example has been procured this year. 



Tar us axillaris. Fab. Ent. S. i. 132 (Carabus); Dawson, 

 Geod. Brit. p. 22. This insect, after the lapse of some years, 

 has again been taken in its old locality, Box Hill ; it was 

 found on the 21st of April, 1855, on the Dorking side of the 

 hill under stones, and abundantly in the same place at the 

 beginning of August and following months. It has likewise 

 been taken rather plentifully at the east end of Box Hill, 

 not far from the fir plantation, both at the above date and in 

 September and October. A few examples were procured on 

 Buckland Hill. 



Dyschirius impunctipemiis, Dawson, Geod. Brit. p. 29, 

 pi. i. fig. A. In addition to the three examples of this 

 newly introduced species recorded in the Geodephaga Bri- 

 tannica, something like a series has been taken on the Lanca- 

 shire coast. The locality is Crosby shore, between Liverpool 

 and Southport, above high-water mark, at the base of the 

 sand hills. Mr. Gregson found them crawling on the dry 

 sand in the sunny weather of the month of July ; and the 

 Rev. H. Clark secured the insect on the north of South port, 

 in October, by tearing up the roots of grass on the sandhills. 

 I would recal the attention of those Entomologists who may 

 search for the insect in future to Mr. Wollaston's more sue- 



