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only discovered a few years ago, (Hydroporus ferrugi- 

 neus, Rudd,*) not unfrequently appears in the 

 water-jugs used in the bed-rooms in my house, and 

 which are filled from a pump in the yard. Yet I 

 never took this species in any of the adjoining 

 streams, or observed it elsewhere in Cambridgeshire. 

 The Broscus cephalotes of authors, -j- which is 

 always represented in books as a maritime species, 

 and which is found plentifully on many parts of the 

 coast under marine rejectamenta, I once took under 

 stones on the Devil's Ditch, a perfectly dry spot, 

 and at least forty miles from the sea. The Cychrus 

 restrains % I never took, excepting in a common 

 cock-roach trap, when placed in certain out-build- 

 ings, but by that means have captured several speci- 

 mens. The Apis conica, L. I have sometimes 

 found drowned in my rain-gauge, but never saw on 

 wing in the garden in my life, or took alive within 

 sixteen miles of this place. Many other instances 

 might be mentioned analogous to the above ; and 

 probably many similar ones have occurred to every 

 collector. 



Novemb. 1845. I never remember in any year 

 such a dearth of insects as during the past season. 

 Having been much engaged in other ways, and not 



* Stephens'* Man. of Brit. Coleopt. p. 68. 

 t Id. p. 34. Id. p. 13. 



Kirby, Man. Ap. Angl. vol. ii. p. 224. It is the C&lioxys 

 arnica of Latrcille. 



