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" place is surrouuded with old poplars and willows. He 

 " found it upon a poplar, and I well recollect his bringing 

 " it to me, and my going back with him to the place in the 

 " hope of seeing others (but did not). It was in July, 1858. 

 " Others have been found about here, and came into the 

 " possession of the Rev. L. Jenyns, whose cabinet is now 

 " in the Cambridge University Museum. One was found 

 " at Chesterton, near Cambridge, upon a walnut tree ; and 

 " one or two others at Bottisham, on walnut. 1 believe 

 " these have been already recorded." Mr. Brown, in answer 

 to my inquiries, has also given me the following particulars 

 concerning Cantharis vesicatoria, of which an isolated 

 colony appears to exist near Cambridge : — " The Cantharis 

 " has come under my observation regularly for 10 years 

 " past, and it was known before that specimens of it were 

 " taken now and then. It is obtained freely by beating ash 

 " trees with a long pole over a large cloth. The beetles 

 " fall quietly, and feign death, — head and legs being drawn 

 " together. They appear about the second week in June, 

 '' but do not last more than three weeks. The locality is on 

 " the chalk hills between the old Roman road and Gog 

 " Magog Hills, near Cambridge." 



Ateyneles 'paradoxus, out of a chance tuft of grass on 

 the " Lees " at Folkestone, has fallen to Mr. George Lewis, 

 when listening to the band on that promenade : the same 

 gentleman has found near the '^ Warren " Staphylinus ful- 

 vipes more than once, and families of the most fair Callistus. 



Of Sterius glacialis, introduced by myself on the autho- 

 rity of a rubbed example from the Grampians, 2 fine spe- 

 cimens have been taken near Braemar, by the Rev. T. 

 Blackburn, to whom I am extremely indebted for one of 

 them. 



Homalium Allardi, taken in a parrot-cage, hung outside 

 a house near Manchester, by Mr. T. Morley (Ent. Mo. Mag., 



