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more than two or three British examples had previously 

 been known) has been taken in abundance by Mr. F. Bate?, 

 at Groby Pool, near Leicester, chiefly in the month of August, 

 1855. 



Anchomenvs Thoreyi, Dej. Spec. iii. 165 ; Dawson, Geod. 

 Brit. p. 94. May be taken plentifully in the Hammersmith 

 Marshes during the month of October, by shaking the cut 

 reeds ; but in spring and summer they are more dispersed 

 and less easy to be obtained. The species has been found 

 likewise in many marshy places near London, and at the re- 

 servoir near Daventry, which yielded Bembidium obliquum 

 and other valuable species. 



Pterostichus lepidus, Fab. Mant. i. 200 (Carabus) ; Daw- 

 son, Geod. Brit. p. 98. The old locality at Charlton appears 

 to have become quite exhausted ; not an example of this in- 

 sect has been found there for many years. About a dozen 

 specimens however have been taken by Dr. Power and Mr. 

 Syme, in the old gravel pit, near the railway station, at 

 Weybridge, chiefly in the months of May and June, and a 

 pair (in copula) in August, 1855. 



Pterostichus rujicollis, Marsh. Ent. 456 (Carabus); Daw- 

 son, Geod. Brit. p. 112. This insect has been taken in 

 abundance by Dr. Power, at the foot of the cliffs at Kemp 

 Town, and found by him (in copula) on the 6th of April, 

 1855. 



Amara plebeja, Gyll. Ins. Suec. ii. 141 (Harpalus) ; 

 Dawson, Geod. Brit. p. 124 ; A. septentrionalis, Curtis, 

 Ann. Nat. Hist. v. p. 275; Ent. Ann. p. 84. The insect 

 described by Mr. Curtis, under the latter name, and noticed 

 in the Entomologist's Annual for 1855, is merely a small 

 green $ of A. plebeja. The other three supposed species 

 therein alluded to (agilis,pu?icticollis and Dalit) also belong 

 to recognized species. I had them for examination whilst 

 my Monograph was in progress, but finding such to be the 

 case, did not feel called upon to notice them particularly, 



