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without Francillon's be excepted. You see I can't willingly quit the subject of 

 your visiting Barham. 



' Darkness is coming on, and admonishes me to conclude this long epistle. 



" I am, Dear Sir, 

 " Your obliged and sincere friend and servant, 



" WM. KIRBY." 



"P. S. Do you see Sowerby's * British Miscellany?* the Entomological 

 part of it is now done by me. In No. 10. are figures of four very scarce British 

 Coleoptera, viz. Staphylinus concolor, ' E. B.' (which is the true dilatatus of 

 authors) ; Scarabceus pumilus $ $ do. ; Cerambyx fulminans, Fabr., and 

 Carabito chrysostomos, 'E. B.' which is Drypta emarginata, Fabr. ' Syst. Eleuth;' 

 Cicindela emarginata, * Ent. Syst.' and Panzer, &c. The Lepidopterous part I 

 have no concern in. There are several curious insects in the other numbers, 

 and particularly my Stylops Melittce, with which my descriptions begin 

 March 11." 



In June 1806, I accepted Mr. Kirby's pressing invitation to visit him 

 on my way from London to Hull, and spent ten delightful clays with 

 him at Barham. Five or six of these were devoted to a minute exa- 

 mination together of his Coleoptera, species by species, and I need not say 

 what a fund of knowledge I derived from this inspection, accompanied 

 by his comments, nor what a large accession my collection received 

 from his very liberal contribution of his duplicates. Three or four days 

 were given to an entomological excursion in his gig, to visit the shores of 

 the Orwell, where I found many insects new to me. 



From the first letter I had* from Mr. Kirby after my return to Hull 

 copious extracts may be given, as they will be intelligible to entomo- 

 logists without the letter to which it refers ; and also from another con- 

 taining the details of a pedestrian tour to which it alludes, which may 

 interest non-entomological readers. 



" Barham, August 11. 1806. 



"Dear Sir, Your kind letter was particularly acceptable, as I began to 

 feel uneasy at not hearing from you, and was thinking of writing to you when 

 it arrived. You will, perhaps, be disappointed at not receiving a folio sheet, 

 but this is to go in a frank with other letters, and therefore I must content my- 

 self with the usual size. To make amends I will write as small and close as 

 possible. And now to answer the entomological part of your letter. My larger 

 Curculio resinosus stands in my catalogue under the name of Colon. Fabricius 

 had a Cure. Colon, but it is now a Rhynchcenus. Did you take many of Hister 

 pygmceus f I have not an English specimen. 



" Your frontispiece came safe: it lost not a joint either from antennae 



or tarsi. I am speaking of your Carabus Bruntoni, under Avhich name I have 

 entered it in my catalogue. I feel much concern at the unexpected death of 

 this gentleman, and regret your loss and that of natural history Of Ca- 

 rabus vivalis I should be glad of another specimen or two when you can spare 



them I rejoice to find you have taken more of Donacia Zosterce. Gyl- 



lenhal made Zosterce and Equiseti as varieties, but not as sexual I have 



compared Dytiscus Prater with D. ekgans, and believe you are right. There is 

 also a pair of lines of points on the disk of the elytra, yet under three glasses I 



sometimes think I discover these points on Prater. I have found no more 



specimens of Curculio ghbosus in our old favourite haunt, the chalk-pit. I have 

 been there but twice since you left Barham. The first time I found a new 



