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Two examples were captured by Mr. Syme, in April, 

 1855, on a damp spot of ground near Sandown Castle, Deal, 

 beneath stones, in company with a number of D- sallnus. 

 My description is taken from an examination of these two 

 examples (one of which is now in my possession, through 

 the liberality of Mr. Syme). The peculiar cylindrical form 

 of the insect would seem to approximate it to D. cylindricus 

 or oblongus (with which it agrees in some of its character- 

 istics), but the absence of any appearance whatever of denti- 

 culations on the anterior tibiae, immediately separates it from 

 the former, and as the latter (which is unique in Sturm's 

 Collection, being represented by a solitary example from the 

 Crimea) is described as being the largest of the European 

 Dyschiriif equalling 3 lines in length, it cannot of course be 

 identical with that species ; and moreover, since it does not 

 even remotely correspond with any other that I find recorded, 

 it is here given as an undescribed species, under the name 

 elongatulus. 



Carabus intricatus, Linn. F. S. 780; Dawson, Geod. 

 Brit. p. 34. I have stated in my Monograph that four or 

 five examples of this insect were captured by the Rev. Mr. 

 Hore, under the moss and lichens growing on the lower part 

 of the trunks of trees in the woods at Bicklei^h Vale. Mr. 

 Hore has kindly furnished me with the following additional 

 particulars. The exact locality in which they were found 

 is by the side of a road through a wood, leading from Fancy, 

 on the Tavistock road, about five miles from Plymouth, to 

 the river in Bickleigh Yale. They were all captured in the 

 spring, March and April, under the moss at the base of 

 oaks, and were in no instance more than a foot above the 

 ground. These were taken more than twenty years ago ; 

 and though Mr. II. has many times hunted the same locality 

 since, he has never again found an example. The spot 

 where Dr. Leach first discovered the insect is Virtuous Lady 

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