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some interesting accounts. One of tliera I obtained of a 

 fisherman, who says that he took it in his net at sea, alive, 

 between thirty and forty miles off this coast; and upon 

 enquiry I have heard of several others taken in the same 

 way. The fishermen tell me that they live at sea feeding 

 upon fish ; and one man assures me that he has kept one 

 many days which fed upon mackerel. — W. C. Hewitson." 



" We meet with Carabus niiens on Stockton Common, 

 four miles from York ; and Nebria livida, under stones, on 

 the sea-shore to the north of Scarborough Castle, the 

 beginning of June. — Thos. Backhouse; 25th 8 mo., 1827." 



" Having read in Mr. Samouelle's book that Notoxus 

 monoceras is a rare insect, I write to say that I have lately 

 taken several in a lane between this place and Richmond, 

 called Sandy Lane ; and a young friend in company with me 

 discovered about twenty feasting voluptuously upon the body 

 of Meloe proscarab<Bus. In addition to the former notice I 

 may add that 1 caught A^. motioceros repeatedly in the fly- 

 net by accident, they were in such abundance. — Thos. P. 

 Haverfield; April 30, 1828." 



'* I may add as to Rhiiiobaftis ebeneus {Larinus carlitiee) 

 it occurred in great plenty last year at the edge of Colling- 

 bourne Wood (near Kimpton) the beginning of August, but I 

 did not know its value, and so failed to secure more speci- 

 mens than the two I sent. — Rev. G. T. Rudd; July, 1828." 



" Respecting the Stylops I may inform thee that I bred 

 four specimens from a species of Andrena, very common 

 here on the whitethorn in May, but do not know its specific 

 name. — Henry Doubleday; Epping, 9 mo. 2, 1828." 



" Mr. Dale tells me that he has taken larvae of three new 

 species oi Stylops, besides the species Curtis has given. He 

 complains sadly of the past season, and seems to have done 

 little except in Stylops. In Coleoptera I have taken Licinus 

 depressus, twelve males and three females during last month 

 and up to this date ; 1 have also taken Buprestis viridis, 

 three specimens; 'dlao Elater cupreus ; Elater bipunctulatus 

 was very common in the winter ; also Criocerus nigra. 

 Marsh. {Eryx atra). Mr. Dale has at length hit upon the 

 method of breeding Stylops, and says that he considers it one 

 of our commonest British insects! — Rev. G. T. Rudd; Oct. 

 21, 1828." 



" As to Stylops I am concerned to say that I had, by an 

 accident, four specimens destroyed, all of which I had hoped 

 to have sent to you. It is, however, so common an insect, 



