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Ditto. 



Ditto, rather ahundnt. 

 Queensferry. 

 Ditto, and near Slate- 

 Ditto, a single speci- 



Apion Craccse. Dalnieny Park. 



Pomona;. Ditto. 



subulatum. Ditto. 



curtirostre. Ditto, Slateford, &c., 



not uncommon. 



Onorpordi. 



carduorum. 



sulcifrons. 



Spencii. 



ford. 



Astragali.* 



men. 



Loti. Dalmeny Park. 



assimile. Ditto. 



varipes. Ditto. 



Torax. In woods about Queensfer- 

 ry; abundant. 



Oxystoma fuscirostre. 



May. 

 RhyncMtes laevicollis 



August. 



minutus. Ditto, 



Deporaus Betulae. Ditto, 



Juniper Green; 

 Dalmeny Park ; 



June. 

 AuOTst. 



Sphaeriestes asneus and immaculatus. Dal- 

 meny Park and Queensferry ; rare. 



Donacia Menyanthidis. Duddingston 

 Loch. 



Haltica flava. Arthur's Seat, on thistles ; 

 common, 



Thyamus pallens. Ditto. 



Mantura semiaenea. Very abundant in 

 clover-fields near Colinton. 



Cheetocnema concinna. Yery common. 



Chrysomela Hyperici. Slateford and Ju- 

 niper Green ; abundant in June and 

 July, 



sanguinolenta. Queensferry. 



Cryptocephalus vittatus. Dalmeny Park; 

 a single specimen. 



Autalia impressa. Queensferry. 



Calodera nigricollis. South Queensferiy. 



Polystoma obscurella. 



Aleochara Daltoni. South Queensferry. 



Tachinus elongatus. 



Coprophilus striatulus. 



Micralymma Johnstons. Sea-shore, South 

 Queensferry. This insect has been 

 met with in great abundance, most 

 of the specimens a little below high- 

 water mark. 



Among the rarer insects described in the ' Entomologia Edinensis,' the following 

 have occurred. 



Cillenum laterale. Queensferry. 



Pissodes Pini. A pair, Dalmeny Park. 

 One of the specimens I took on the 

 underside of a fir-log, when turning 

 it over in search of Ips ferruginea : 

 the latter insect has been found in 

 some plenty. 



Edinburgh, June 21, 1841. 



Hypera elongata. 



Spheeriestes ater and foveolatus. I have 

 met with about a dozen specimens of 

 each species near South Queensfer- 

 ry, chiefly in September and the be 

 ginning of October. 



R. NORTHMORE GrEVILLE. 



Art. XLIV. — Note on the Primary Divisions of Carahidce. 

 By A. H. Haliday, Esq , M.A. 



It appears to me that the division founded on the varying insertion of the second 

 spur of the fore tibia may be replaced to better purpose by that which the structure of 



*I may here mention that when at Northampton in June, 1839, I took this rare 

 and beautiful insect in some plenty, though confined to a very limited locality. 



