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Polydrusus chrysomela is a local species, confined to 

 Kelton, so far as I have ascertained. 



Erirhinus jEthioi^s is of excessive rarity, and an 

 insect in wliich I take a lot of, I think, excusable pride. I 

 have taken somewhere about fifty specimens altogether, and 

 you will see the reason of my pride when I tell you that not 

 in all Europe is there another beetle-hunter who has taken 

 more than a dozen to his own hand. In London the dealers 

 in insects sell this little beetle at 15s 6d each, so yoii will 

 see it is of some value. 



Apion Cerdo is a species which I discovered as British, 

 I found.it on the Purple Vetch on the railway bank below 

 Collin. It is found there in small numbers. It belongs to 

 the same genus as the Weevil, so destructive to clover seed. 



lihinomacer attelebioides is got by beating the Moun- 

 tain Ash at Tinwald Downs, and is not found elsewhere. 



Wiynchites auratus is found only at the Glen Mills on 

 the common Blackthorn. 



Donacia obscura is confined to a small swampy spot 

 near Collin, or, at least, ivas found in that spot, for I fear it 

 has been driven away, the cows having nibbled away the tall 

 tussocks of grass in which it bred. 



Phaeodon concinnum till a few years ago was scarcely 

 known in Britain, and not much more so in Europe even. I 

 found it (along with Dr Sharp) in great profusion on the salt 

 marsh at Kelton. Whole pints of it might easily have been 

 collected. The insect feeds on marine plants, and when the 

 flood tide flows in amongst the grass this pretty little Beetle 

 is seen borne on the advancing wave and sparkling like tiny 

 emeralds. As the tide creeps over the large expanse of flat 

 merse, either drowning or bearing on with it every living 

 thing on its way, the Beetles are soon floating in handfuls, 

 again to be dispersed with the receding tide. Although so 

 common in this particular place, it seems strange that this 

 species is not found at all on other parts of the Sol way coast- 

 It has been found on a part of the coast of the English 

 Channel, but not in such numbers as with us. 



