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before the insect itself is seen. It is often more than 

 an inch in length, of a glossy coppery-green colour, 

 occasionally tinted with blue, and inhabits old pol- 

 lard willows. Tretops prceusta, a very small beetle, 

 deriving its generic name from the singular fact that 

 its antennae are inserted in such an unusual position, 

 that they appear to divide each eye into two distinct 

 ones, we have discovered on the hawthorn in the park. 

 Callidium violaceum is not unfrequently found sunning 

 itself on the park fence, and Clytus arietis, which to a 

 non-entomological eye, presents at the first glance 

 some resemblance to a wasp, is partial to the blossoms 

 of the hawthorn. On dead fences we have taken many 

 specimens of Rhagium bifasciatum, one of which, a 

 well-marked variety, is still treasured by us as a 

 rarity, and Leptura quadrifasciata is common on the 

 blossoms of the hawthorn and other wild flowers. 



A few species of the beautiful Genus Donacia, 

 belonging to another division of beetles, may be seen 

 on the flags and rushes bordering the ponds and water 

 courses in the Down Park and West Harting meadows. 

 Donacia protceus, the most common species, has a 

 beautiful metallic splendour, and varies so much in 

 tint in the different individuals, that it is difficult to 

 find two exactly alike in this respect, we have seen 

 them of a deep blue, a light blue, purple, violet,.brassy- 

 green, grey, yellow, and several shades of red. Crio- 

 ceris Asparagi in favourable seasons is plentiful on the 

 asparagus in our gardens ; Cassida Murraa, Cassida 

 viridula, and other species of tortoise beetles, we have 

 found on various wild plants in the fields and meadows. 

 Galeruca Tanaceti appears to be very local, we have 

 found it in abundance, season after season, in one spot 

 on the herbage on East Harting down, and in no 

 other locality, and Luperus flavipes is not at all un- 

 common on the blossoms of the hawthorn and other 

 flowers. The Genus Haltica is made up of those 

 innumerable minute leaping beetles of which we hear 



