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Oodes Helopioides, Fab., a species which he had not before taken, and whicli ap- 

 pears to be this year unusually abundant, haviug been found in considerable numbers 

 in Kent, by Mr. Lewis, Mr. Douglas, Dr. Power and others : the series now before 

 the Meeting were taken in the adjoining county of Surrey. 



Badisler peltatus, Panzer, a single individual found on the 19th of March last, 

 under loose bark of willow, in the notorious Hammersmith, or, perhaps more cor- 

 rectly, Shepherd's Bush Marshes. Tbe synonymy of and references to this species 

 should be thus expressed: Carabus peltatus. Panzer, Faun. Ins. Germ. Fas. xxxvii. 

 tab. 20 (1797), probably figured and described from a very immature specimen, with 

 the head and thorax ferruginous, the elytra pale brassy, and the antennce and legs 

 entirely testaceous, a state of things so different from the ordinary aspect of the insect 

 as to render identification, if not impossible, at least very problematical and unsatis- 

 factory; lltiger, Verzeichn. d. Kiifer Preiiss. 197,80 (1798); Duft. Faun. Austr. ii. 

 147, 193 (1812). Amblychus peltatus, Gi/lt. Ins. Suec. ii. 76, 2 (1810). Trimorphus 

 Erro, Newman (olim), Ent. Mag. v. 489 (1838); Steph. Man. Brit. Col. 23, 134 

 (1839). Badister peltatus, Slurm, Deutschl. Faun. Ins. iii. 189, 3, lab. Ixxvi. fig. a, 

 A (1815); Dej. Spec. ii. 408, 4 (1826); Iconogr. ii. 226, 4, tab. 101, fig. 3 (1830); 

 Hccr, Faun. Col. Helv. \. 49, 3 (1838) ; Erich. Kaf. d. Mark Brand, i. 24, 4 (1839) ; 

 Schaum, Ent. Zeit. Slett. ix. 37 (1848); Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd series, iii. 35 

 (1849); Neivman, Zool. 2276, 2277 (1848); L. Redtb. Fatm. Austr. 82 (1849), 2nd 

 ed. 31 (1857); Dawson, Geod. Brit. 61, 3, tab. 1, fig. C (1854); Fairm. $,• Lahoulb. 

 Faun. Ent. Franc, i. 63, 4 (1854); Schaum, Natvrg. d. Ins. Deutschl . i. 352, 4 

 (1857). 



Cossonus linearis, Linn., Schoenh., Steph., Walton. A species, judging from the 

 old cabinets, frequently met with in Britain in days of yore, but which has probably 

 not occurred for nearly twenty years, specimens having been taken by Dr. Power, in 

 Cambridgeshire, about that period, since which apparently no instance is on record of 

 its capture. The series now exhibited was taken a few days since in an old elm, which 

 literally teemed with the insect in all its stages, the semi-decayed portions of the tree 

 being riddled in all directions by the larvae, and the dibris mingled with the remains 

 of countless members of bygone generations. 



Stenus solutus, Eric, captured at the same time and place as the specimens pre- 

 viously exhibited by Mr. Edwin Shepherd, to whom I am indebted for the opportunity 

 of taking this scarce and local species. 



Lathrobium punctatum, Zetterstedt, Faun. Ins. Lappon. i. 84, 5 (1828), to whom, 

 and not to Nordmann, this species must be assigned, he having first elaborately 

 described it under this name. 



Mr. Westwood remarked that Cossonus linearis used to be taken in Battersea 

 Fields. 



Mr. Janson rejoined that it was certainly not there that be had met with it: little 

 anxiety need, however, be felt as to the precise locality which had yielded it, as he had 

 not only secured but set out an ample supply for all his friends, and specimens (a 

 dozen if he desired them) were quite at Mr. Westvvood's service. 



Mr. Gloyne observed that he had taken a specimen of Oodes Helopioides on the 

 banks of the Thames, near Morllake. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a new species of Cemiostoma, bred by Mr. Wailes, of 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne, from larvge mining the leaves of Genista tinctoria, for which the 



