58 Mr. F. Holme’s Notice of Coleopterous Insects 
cilia pale ochreous, with darker shades, and a dusky line at 
the base. 
Caterpillar (Plate III. fig. 6) long and slender, naked, pale apple- 
green, with a row of reddish lunules on each side, above the 
stigmata, and a chain of diamond-shaped reddish blotches 
down the back : it feeds upon the Solidago virgaurea , or golden 
rod. 
This interesting addition to our Fauna was detected in Birch 
Wood many years since, by the late Mr. J. Standish, sen., and who 
secured a single example by mothing ; but the caterpillar and its 
food remained unknown until discovered by his son Mr. B. Standish, 
who found two specimens of the larva in the south-west angle of 
Birch Wood in September, 1832, which produced the imago in the 
following June. 
XII. Notice of the Coleopterous Insects observed in the 
Scil/y Islands in July and Auyust, 1836. By Frederick 
Holme, Esq., M. A., M. E. S. 
[Read December 5, 1836.] 
I collected the following species of Coleoptera on the Scilly Islands 
between July 22 and August 2, 1836 : and though I am afraid the 
list will be found remarkable for little but its deficiencies, I think 
it as well to lay it before the Society, in the hope of its being sub- 
sequently extended, as, I believe, the Islands have been hitherto 
almost unvisited by entomologists. I must remark that the time 
and circumstances were not very favourable for collecting, the 
plant insects being nearly over for the summer, and the small close 
heath (I believe Erica Vagans'), which forms nearly the sole clothing 
of the hills, lying so close to the ground as not to admit the intro- 
duction of a sweeping-net. The tides too were very high when I 
arrived, and prevented my having more than two mornings’ col- 
lecting on the sandy beach at St. Mary’s, before it was covered : 
but for this, I have no doubt that the number of species of Aleo- 
clmra, Anthicus, &c. would have been much extended. The spe- 
cies marked with an asterisk I never found in the Land’s End dis- 
trict of Cornwall. 
Cicindela campestris . — In great plenty on Normandy Downs and 
Salleykey Downs, St. Mary’s Island : also on some of the 
