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him always to answer) what I may chance to scrib- 
ble. Sir Thomas Frankland, when in parliament, 
used to write to me every now and then the most 
delightful epistolia of the moment; perhaps four 
or five lines, about some plant found, or some bird 
seen or heard, &c. &c. Ido not despair of having 
some such produced by the beauties or rarities 
about Rose Castle. The very name of the spot 
enchants me. May all its present occupiers ever 
find it (as I am confident I shall when I visit it) 
“rosa sine spinis!” 
I recollect a most charming day spent in the 
woods of Corby Castle near Carlisle, with Yeates 
and Broussonet, where I caught Later cupreus, and 
a new Scarabeus, which I gave Marsham, I won- 
der he has not mentioned me for the former; he 
is very deficient in habitats for that genus. The lat- 
ter is his Sc. arvicola, but Corby Castle is not in 
“Yorkshire.” 
I found Later, pectinicornis on Cromford Moor, 
near Matlock. 
As I am on the subject of beetles, I beg leave to 
observe, that one of the commentators in Johnson’s 
Shakespeare explains the “shard-born beetle”* of 
* Macbeth, Act iii. se. 2. [Shakespeare also uses the word in 
the following passages which elucidate hismeaning. They have 
however been overlooked by entomologists: See Kirby and 
Spence, i. 392,—R. T. 
...+ Often, to our comfort shall we find 
The sharded beetle in a safer hold, 
Than is the full-wing’d eagle. Cymbeline, Act iii. sc. 2. 
They are his shards and he their beetle. 
Ant. and Cleop. Act iti. se. 2. | 
