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before when beating the herbage has produced so little. This 

 has been particularly the case with the Curculionidse and 

 ElateridsB, even the commonest species being in many cases 

 entirely absent. Towards the end of February I took a fine 

 specimen of Euryporus picipes, out of some moss growing on a 

 bare chalk hill, near a plantation ; and in tufts of a coarse grass 

 near the same place Evcesthetus scaber occurred in plenty. I 

 soon after captured a pair (the sexes) of Stilicus fragilis in some 

 rotten fern covering roots stored for the winter, but diligent 

 searching failed to procure more. I should not have perceived 

 these had not the red thorax betrayed their presence, as they 

 tightly rolled themselves up and feigned death on being disturbed. 

 All the other species of Stilicus, except S. genicidatus, are more 

 or less common here. Amongst some hedge rubbish Lithocharis 

 obsoleta and L. ocliracea, and one example of L. fuscula, taken 

 flying. In haystack refuse Heterothops dissimilis and H. bino- 

 tatus, Quedius scintillans, Oxypoda hcemorrhoa, and 0. umbrata. At 

 the end of March I found Mycetoporus lucidus tolerably abundant 

 by shaking moss in a fir plantation, and by sweeping a hedge 

 Balcminus villosus and Blcdius subterraneus were procured. In 

 May a nice example of Ocypus fuscatus obligingly walked across 

 the high road, and in June I beat a pair of Magdalinus barbicornis 

 out of a hawthorn hedge. A small pool in a wood furnished me 

 with both sexes of Liopterus ruficollis, and out of moss half 

 submerged on the banks I captured several specimens of Tachys 

 bistriatus, as well as Myllcena brevicornis and M. elongata. A 

 sand-pit during the season has afforded several examples of Ta- 

 chinus elongatits, also sparingly Gnathoncus rotundatus, Lathridius 

 testaceus, Colon brunneiun, Oxypoda mutata, Ocalea castanea, 

 and a dozen Calodera umbrosa. Among insects taken casually I 

 may mention Atomaria ferruginea, Colon zebei, and Corticaria 

 cylindrica ; also Ips. qiiadripiinctatiis in decaying mangold roots, 

 Falagria thoracica in sand, and F. sulcatula in wet moss. 



I have managed to take as well as see the beautiful Cicindela 

 sylvatica, but found it no easy matter. 



Up to the present time I have come across very few of the 

 Phytophaga, the only ones worth recording being Luperus 

 flavipes and L. circumfasus, Lema pwncticollis, and Lamprosoma 

 concolor. 



A short visit to the Isle of Wight, the second week in June, 



