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extraordinary success are equalled only by his manly 

 straightforwardness, and the disinterestedness and liberality 

 with which he dispenses the numerous rarities which reward 

 his exertions. 



Atemeles paradoxus, Grav., has been taken in the spring, 

 in the vicinity of Plymouth, by Mr. J. J. Reading ; the spe- 

 cimens occurred in nests of Formica fusca. 



Atemeles emarginatus, Grav. Mr. J. J. Reading has 

 captured this species near Plymouth, in the spring, in nests 

 of Myrmica rubra. 



Euryusa Kirbyi, mihi— described in the list of new species 

 and figured on the Plate, Fig. 8. 



This interesting and novel addition to our list, we owe to 

 the industry of Mr. H. Squire, who, as already stated, cap- 

 tured a pair in the immediate vicinity of the metropolis, in a 

 nest of Formica full ginosa. 



I have dedicated this species to the late Rev. William Kirby, 

 M. A., F. R. S., F. L. S., Honorary President of the Ento- 

 mological Society of London, etc. etc., as a slight token of 

 respect to the memory of the illustrious Entomologist, whose 

 labours on the tribe to which it pertains, had they been given 

 to the world at the epoch the}- were accomplished, would 

 have held honourable place beside their coeval, the " Mono- 

 graphia Apum Angliae." Alas ! that those admirable de- 

 scriptions should, thirty years subsequently, have been pub- 

 lished secondhand, clipped, misapplied and buried in a mass 

 of rubbish ! 



Lept acinus formicetorum, Maerkel. Mr. J. J. Reading 

 has taken this species near Plymouth, in the spring and 

 autumn, in nests of Formica rufa. 



Hetaerius sesquicornis, Preyssler. Mr. S. Stevens has 

 recorded the capture of one, and Dr. Power of three, spe- 

 cimens of this curious insect, Proc. Ent. Soc. 4 May (1857), 



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