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which I discovered it ; and four others by myself on the 6th 

 of July, under rejectamenta, in one of the hollows, near the 

 same spot. All these are of rather a darker colour than my 

 original specimen. During a second visit to the above- 

 named locality in August, 1 had the good fortune to secure 

 a fine series of examples, presenting a greater or less depth 

 of colouring, varying from rich ferruginous to deep piceous, 

 the result of different stages of maturity ; the lighter coloured 

 individuals, however, are not in every instance the least ma- 

 ture. It appears that my description of the original example, 

 which I discovered two years ago on the sand hills at Deal, 

 is applicable to an immature representative of the species ; 

 but even in darker specimens the same peculiarity which is 

 recorded in my description of the elytra, u an oblong ob- 

 scure dark patch, extending up the sides and leaving the 

 centre more or less ferruginons," is observable in many in- 

 stances, though frequently the ferruginous tint is diffused 

 and blended with the darker shade, and sometimes the latter 

 entirely prevails. 



Harpalus rupicola, Sturm. D. F. iv. 105, pi. 94 ; Dawson, 

 Geod. Brit. p. 136. This insect has been found in some 

 plenty during the spring and autumn of 1855, on the side 

 of Buckland Hill; and at both seasons of the year many of 

 the specimens were immature. It appears to be very local, 

 and I have found it principally on the western end of the 

 hill, sometimes in company of a remarkably large variety of 

 puncticollis some way up the slope. 



Harpalus litigiosus, Dej. Spec. iv. 361 ; H. Wollastoni, 

 Dawson, Geod. Brit. p. 144. I have ascertained, by an ex- 

 amination of the collection of the late Comte Dejean, that 

 the insect which I described under the name H. Wollastoni 

 (provisionally, after the captor) is identical with H. litigiosus, 

 Dej. 



Stenolophus Skrimshiranus, Steph. Mand. i. 166; Daw- 



