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form, and the present little volume is far easier for reference 

 than the Zoologists of a twelvemonth. 



Want of space will prevent me from giving any long 

 notice of rarities captured, but the following will perhaps be 

 interesting. 



Firstly, I think the capture of Acrognathus and Lyprus 

 in some numbers especially noteworthy (possibly because 

 I had the pleasure of taking them myself, thanks to the 

 courtesy of Messrs. Blackburn and Sharp, who respectively 

 discovered the localities) ; Acrognathus is to be found bodily, 

 or rather half, in the w^ater, under sopping dead leaves, at 

 the edges of ponds in woods. After taking it at Epping, I 

 had no difficulty in finding it at Darenth. Lyjjrus had not 

 appeared for many years, I believe, until Mr. Waterhouse 

 found one specimen at Gravesend last summer : it has now 

 turned up in some numbers close to home, at Hammersmith 

 marshes, in tufts of grass, &c., at the edge of the bed of a 

 dry pond. 



Dr. Power has, as usual, persisted in taking good things ; 

 Saprinus 7netaUicus, Haploglossa gentilis^ and Trachys 

 nanuSy not being the worst ; but to enumerate all (including 

 divers novelties) would take too much room. Mr. Scott 

 (who, with Mr. Douglas, is of course devoted to Hemi- 

 ptera) informs me he has taken the last Trichonyx sulcicolUs; 

 a recently constructed railroad having gone out of its way 

 to destroy the stump. 



Turner has found Leptura au7'ulenia, DlrccBci, Bracho- 

 nyx, Colydium, and such hke prizes. Carahus auratus, 

 taken by Mr. Brewer on the South coast, has had a shadow 

 of suspicion thrown upon its parentage, Mr. Walton having 

 turned loose a score of foreign examples many years ago 

 near Dover ; but I can confirm the species as British, hav- 



