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facility of changing ground, and tlie number of workers, are 

 the real causes of good captures being so numerous ; still 

 there are several cities and towns enjoying almost equal 

 transit accommodation, and with many resident Entomo- 

 logists, from whom it is not unreasonable to expect more 

 results if greater efforts were made. 



During the past season many tolera])ly rare insects have 

 been taken in some numbers, in spite of the generally 

 lamented dearth. Messrs. Garneys and Harris have taken 

 a considerable quantity of Bemhidium fluviatile and Omias 

 Bohemanni near Burton-on-Trent, where I also had the 

 satisfaction of capturing the former rarity, and where I also 

 found Monotonia .spinicoUis not uncommon. Dr. Power 

 found AjjhthoJia Idlainx, Thyamis parvvla, Ceutliorhynchi- 

 deus melanarhis and Ptinus crenatus especially abundant 

 near Bungay in Suffolk; and I received large numbers of 

 these species, accompanied by Chrysomela didymata^Chilo- 

 corus renipustulatus and (last, and least, but most valuable) 

 Phyllotreta sinuata, from Miss Freeman, who found them 

 not far from Eye, in the same county, which seems espe- 

 cially to abound in Halticidce; near Bungay, also, Mr. 

 Garneys formerly took Teretrias picipes, Hydroporus ha- 

 lensis and Coccinella 13-punctata. 



As far, also, as mere numbers are concerned, the very 

 large quantity of Cicindela sylvaiica found at Bournemouth, 

 by Dr. Knaggs, is worthy of remai'kj and at Shirley I 

 found Lebia cJdorocephala, Acalles pfinoides^ Ips ferrugi- 

 'tieus, Epurcea pusilla, ThrosciLS dennestoides, and two or 

 three species of Hylastes, very plentiful. I was also lucky 

 enough to take, at different times, at least a score of Hylastes 

 cunicidarius in sand pits, under fir trees, at the same place. 

 Mr. E. \y. Janson has, I believe, obtained it there from 



