Ts THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
counties. The imago appears in July and August, and the 
sexes are very dissimilar in colour and markings. The larva, 
which is polyphagous, is to be found in May and June, and is 
very partial to various fruit-trees, privet, &c. 
(To be continued.) 
COL 1 0 Peis RA EM: ens: 
Captured by Tuomas H. Hart. 
Durine the past year my collecting has of necessity been 
limited to a very small area, and only on some two or three 
occasions have I been able to extend my search beyond the 
southern portion of the Ashford district. Consequently several 
localities where I have in other years taken good things have 
either not been visited at all, or else under circumstances that 
precluded the possibility of my turning the day to good account. 
The Geodephaga I found remarkably scarce, some of those 
species that are usually most abundant being almost absent. In 
1876 the pretty Leistus spinibarbis abounded to such an extent 
that it even invaded our dwellings. It was nothing uncommon 
on retiring to rest to find one capering across the bed, or 
climbing up the window-curtains. In the church, too, it was 
seen on more than one occasion mounted on the shoulder of one 
of the congregation, to the great amusement of the juveniles 
present. Last year I met with one specimen only. And as 
much may be said of numerous other common species. 
One specimen of Polystichus vittatus occurred in a clay bank 
near where I had previously taken that species in a flood, but a 
close search for some time failed to produce more. Badister 
peltatus turned up again in the old spot, accompanied by B. 
unipustulatus and Acupalpus consputus.* Dronius nigriventris was 
taken in some numbers by beating thatch in November. I was 
much surprised at the locality, and also at the great variation in 
the markings of this insect. Several specimens of Pterostichus 
picimanus were washed out in a flood, but P. inequals, so 
abundant in 1877, was scarce last year. 
The Brachelytra appeared to be more abundant, but I am 
* Some years ago I was very much astonished at finding this insect in pro- 
fusion in a similar locality at Litlington, near Cambridge.—J. A. PowEr. 
