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like the peacock ; they effect such vast designs with 

 such small means, and they so haunt all corners of 

 the habitable globe, that I can conceive no portion 

 of all God's wonderful creatures more capable of at 

 once fascinating the attention, charming the fancy, 

 or exciting the highest admiration in the most intel- 

 ligent minds. 



I regret that out of upwards of ten thousand 

 indigenous insects, my catalogue must be confined 

 to a very few the most splendid, the most con- 

 spicuous, the most curious, and the most popular 

 such, in fact, as the general lover of nature will be 

 most likely to meet with in his walks, without much 

 seeking after. 



SELECT CALENDAR OF BRITISH INSECTS. 



NOTE. The Insects of this and all the following lists are named from 

 the Systematic Catalogue of Stephens, 



Cychrus rostratus. Localities, under dead leaves and in rotten trees 



during the winter ; pathways in summer. 

 Carabus catenulatus. Under gorse or heaths. 

 Carabus cancellatus. Rotten willows in the winter; under stones and 



in pathways in summer. 

 Helobia brevicollis. Very common. 

 Sphodrus leucophthalmus. Cellars, etc. 

 Calathus cisteloides. Common in damp situations- 

 Colymbetes bipunctatus. 

 Colymbetes bipustulatue 

 Acilius sulcatus. 



Dyticus marginalis. ^ Ponds and ditches. 

 Dyticus circumflexus. 

 Dyticus punctulatus. 

 Hydrous piceus. 

 Ptinus Fur. In museums, etc. 



