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from most of the Geodephaga by peculiarity of 

 habit ; leaving their congeners to pursue their 

 prey upon the ground, they climb in pursuit 

 of caterpillars over hedges, and even to the 

 tops of trees, and fly with a celerity only 

 equalled by the Cicindeliadae. The grubs or 

 larvae are so voracious as to gorge till they 

 become quite helpless, in which state they are 

 devoured by those of their brethren, whose 

 " famine is not filled." 



Agonum sex-punctatum. Several authors 

 have stated that, since the year 1812, this in- 

 sect has disappeared: it once, however, oc- 

 curred in this county in 1828. 



Calathus rufangulus. The best method of 

 obtaining this elegant and local insect is, by 

 shaking loose sods of turf in sandy places. 



Patrobus rufipes. Mr. Stephens must have 

 been mistaken when he asserted this to be a 

 littoral insect. In this part of the kingdom, it 

 occurs on the banks of rivers and ditches, in 

 woods, and even on the summits of the Derby- 

 shire mountains. 



Colymbetes maculatus. This beautiful but 

 variable aquatic beetle, which is so accuratel 

 figured by Mr. Samouelle, in p. 3. f. 15, of his 



