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recorded and figured ; for although it had been included bv 

 Stephens among the British species, yet it is well known 

 that it had no representative in his cabinet. During the 

 spring and summer however of the year 1855, it has been 

 discovered by the Rev. H. Clark in considerable numbers 

 on the muddy banks of the Daventry reservoir. 



JSembidium Clarkii, Dawson, Geod. Brit. p. 199. I 

 have found this insect in a small willow thicket, near my 

 residence, at various times during the spring of 1855. Dr. 

 Power has found it in Hammersmith marshes, and the Rev. 

 H. Clark on the banks of one of the reservoirs near Daventry, 

 in company with B. obliquum, on several occasions during 

 June, July and August, 1855. The first occurrence of the 

 insect recorded is in 1848, but it had been captured many 

 years previously by Dr. Power in the fens of Cambridgeshire, 

 and for twenty years several examples had remained in his 

 collection unnamed and disregarded until the description in 

 the Geodephaga Britannica led to its identification. 



Beinhhliuut doris, Panz. Faun. 38 (Carabus); Dawson, 

 Geod. Brit. p. '203. This species has been found in profu- 

 sion by Dr. Power and others in an old gravel pit, near 

 " The Five Ways," in Darenth Wood, during the spring of 

 1855. It has likewise been taken plentifully near Newark 

 by Mr. Hadfield. 



J. F. Dawson. 

 Tin: Woodlands, 

 Oct. 31st, 18,55. 



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