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proved that this is the case. Among his other captures Amara 
patricia, Cymindis vaporariorum, Miscodera arctica (in abundance), 
Oxytelus fulvipes, Gymnusa variegata, and Cryptocephalus punctiger, 
C. coryli, and C. fulcratus are noticeable; the most curious dis- 
covery in this locality was the maritime Nebria livida, first found 
on Cannock Chase by Mr. Harris. 
Scotch collecting, however, is always looked forward to by 
both coleopterists and lepidopterists as sure to reward them with 
an abundance of good species, and they are not far wrong as a 
general rule; there are numbers of species that are pre-eminently 
Scotch. Among these Zeugophora Turneri, Zilora ferruginea, 
Harpalus 4-punctatus, Amara Quenseli, Dendrophagus crenatus, 
Athous undulatus, Strangalia aurulenta and several other of the 
best of the Longicorns, will at once occur to every collector; the 
rare Cryptocephalus 10-punctatus was only found at Rannoch 
until Mr. Harris found it in company with Magdalinus carbonarws 
and other good beetles at Chartley Moss, another locality in the 
heart of the Midlands which is quite as productive as Cannock 
Chase, and which seems quite peculiar both as regards its fauna 
and its flora. 
We have not, however, time to discuss separate localities ; 
these papers have already extended themselves to a greater 
length than was at first intended, and it is time that they were 
brought to a conclusion. 
There is, however, one point that requires special mention, 
and that is the subject of parasitic beetles. Some beetles, as 
Sitaris muralis and Melée, are parasitic on bees, others, as 
Metecus paradoxus, on wasps; the transformations of some of 
these insects are most wonderful, and well worthy of the attention 
of every student of Entomology. Bathyscia wollastoni, Crypto- 
phagus setulosus, and the larve of Antherophagus pallens have 
been found in or about the nests of different species of bees. 
Leptinus testaceus has been taken in numbers at the mouth of a 
humble bee’s nest, and Cryptophagus populi in or about the nests 
of Colletes Daviesiana; some of these last-mentioned cases seem 
to be instances of partial parasitism, the bees tolerating the 
intruders probably because they act as scavengers. ‘The very 
rare Velleius dilatatus has been taken in wasps’ nests, but it was 
in all probability not an inhabitant, but a plundering intruder. 
This scarce beetle seems to be attached to the burrows of Cossus 
