NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1872. 



Great quantities of Licinus silphoidcs (unusually abundant 

 in other localities during the past year) have greeted Mr. 

 George Lewis, on the beach at Hythe, on his return from 

 Japan ; and unaccustomed and unwelcome swarms of the 

 Arachnoid Niptus Jiololeucus are recorded by the Rev. A. 

 Nash from Gloucestershire. 



The attention of any of our readers who is firmly per- 

 suaded that Calosoma sycophanta is truly iudigenous, and 

 who is determined not to allow personal convenience to stand 

 in the way of proving his point, is directed to the " Petites 

 Nouvelles Entomologiques" of 1st June last, which contains 

 an account of the discovery of large numbers of that beetle 

 on the dead body of a man who had hung himself in a forest 

 near Rlieims. Ely Cathedral, in which edifice the poet 

 Crabbe (I believe) once found the Calosoma, contains se- 

 cluded corners, but the vergers would probably object to the 

 trap being laid there; and, indeed, it could with more chance 

 of success be placed near Penzance, where Mr. Rodd (Ent. 

 vi, p. 224) records the recent occurrence of the beetle; or in 

 Exeter Street, Plymouth, where another specimen was taken 

 on the wing last August by Dr. Harper. 



Carabus intricatus has again appeared in South Devon, 

 having been found by Mrs. Wollaston near Newton Abbott; 

 and its dubiously British congener, auratus, once more 

 asserts its claims, as usual, under suspicious circumstances — 

 this time being found in radishes, in the heart of London. 



Hydroporus oblongus, melanarius, neglectus, Scalesianus, 

 and many others, are re-noted from Askham Bog, York, by 

 Mr. H. Hutchinson. 



Aleochara cuniculorum has been taken in the Isle of 

 Man, by the Rev. R. P. Murray. 



The rare Homalota Jiepatica is recorded from Hampstead, 

 Darenth, Caterham, Shirley, Chatham, Greenhithe and Wim- 



