XE\V BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1872. 7 



The rare Apion sanguineum, readily distinguishable from 

 criientatum by its narrower form and longer and straighter 

 rostrum, fell to my net near Eslier in October; and two si)eci- 

 mens have been detected by Dr. Power in his collection, from 

 Weybridge, and another by Mr. Champion, taken by him in 

 a sand-pit at Reigate. 



Tychius licBinatocephalus, as to the positive claims of 

 which to be considered a truly British species I suppose 

 most of us have had latent doubts, has turned up at last, a 

 single specimen having been accidentally taken by Mr. Oliver 

 Janson, I believe in Marlborough Forest, and some half- 

 dozen secured by Mr. Lacy and Mr. ]Moncreaff near Gosport, 

 under circumstances that enable the latter gentleman (to 

 whom I am indebted for the specimen jfigured on our Frontis- 

 piece) to promise an account of its ceconomy. 



Ceuthorhynchideus Chevrolatii has assisted its claims to 

 specific rank by occurring en famille, and in some numbers, 

 in a very restricted space near Hythe to the Rev. W, 

 Tylden. 



Thy amis agilis, after a lapse of many years, has been met 

 with by me in some small numbers at the identical spot of 

 its original capture, Mickleham, and both in its immaculate 

 and suturally darkened form. I found it in October, on one 

 or two sporadic plants of Scrophularia aquatica, on dry 

 chalk, near the Hilly Field. The leaves of these plants were 

 quite riddled by it; and, the weather being wet, the insect by 

 no means acted up to its specific name. It was, when alive, 

 much more of a whitish yellow colour than would be imagined 

 from the dried specimens. 



The indications afforded last year in the notices of cap- 

 tures by Messrs. E. A. Waterhouse and Wollaston that 

 collecting in birds' nests is profitable, may be supplemented 

 by the record of the finding by the former gentleman of the 



