APPENDIX. 579 



" Mr. Haworth spent a day with me about a month ago. He left me a speci- 

 men of what appears to be Dytiscus minimus of Schrank .... He left me like- 

 wise a Gyrinus very like natator, with rufous elytra .... I don't recollect whether 

 we made out the Copris you took at Landguard-fort. I had received one of 

 the same species from Dillwyn, and named it reticulatus. I since find by com- 

 paring it with Gyllenhal's insects, that it is Scar. Xiphias of Paykull, Copris 



nuchicornis of Sturm, Illiger, and Panzer, but not of E. B I have now 



given you all the entomological intelligence my budget contains. A later 

 letter from my friend Marsham tells me he had no success in that way in his 

 late expedition. I shall hope to see something new in Norfolk, whither I am 

 going for a month next Monday fortnight : I am sure I shall, at least, in 

 Hooker's cabinet : so that if you write between the 20th of Sept. and the 20th 

 of Nov., your letter must be directed to me, Eev. Dr. Sutlon's, Lower Close, 

 Norwich. I shall not forget to inform you of what occurs in my way .... I 

 hope you will do what you hint at take a walk Barham-way next summer. 

 I think I could meet you on the road, at least as far as Cambridge, and x 

 accompany you here. 



" Believe me, &c." 



"Barham, March 22, 1807. 



" Dear Sir, I don't wonder at your surprise at my long silence ; yet the 

 reason of it is contained in your favour, for which I thank you the more, 

 because I do not deserve it. You say ' The fact is, that for the two months 

 succeeding my last I was so occupied with zm-entomological affairs that I had 

 not leisure to look at an insect.' This has been precisely my case .... 

 I have boxes of insects both from Haworth and Hooker to name, which I 

 am afraid the owners think I have cribbed ; and when I shall hare leisure to 

 look them over and return them, I cannot tell : so I trust you will accept of this 

 my apology. In London, I went over Sir Joseph's Staphylini ; but there was 

 nothing very remarkable amongst them except S. anreus, which is of the same 

 family with S. murinus, &c. I found several non-descript species in Mr. 

 M'Leay's cabinet, which he purchased from the Leverian Museum, and one 

 large and blue one from old Drury's cabinet. Another piece of entomological 

 news I can tell you, that M'Leay has purchased all Donovan's foreign 

 insects a most valuable addition to his collection, which in value falls not very 

 far short of Francillon's. I will now endeavour to answer your letter . . . ." 



" Barham, April 1, 1807. 



" Dear Sir, Your box arrived here safe last Thursday or Friday without 

 any damage of consequence .... I have looked over the contents of your 

 box and Mr. Watson's, but have not yet had leisure to compare either with my 

 own cabinet ; but the following in your parcel at the first glance seem to me 

 new: No. 4, Carabus scititlus, No. 14, Dytiscus scitulus a very pretty 

 species. No. 19, Haliphis mucronatus ? I have one very near it, I am sure. 

 No. 20, Helophorus longipalpis, appears to me quite a new insect, and not Hyd. 



longipalpis of E. B No. 41, Catheretes Junci and nitidus, are both 



new to me, except one be in Sheppard's cabinet. 44 is new to me. 76, Cur- 

 culio Geranii, new to me as British. Apion, Nos. 81, 82. 93. 96, seem to me 

 all new. Ill, Mordella picea, new to me. 138, Staph. fulvipennis, new I think; 

 139 also, and 144. Aleochara, No. 160, is a very pretty species ; the pile 

 glitters like silver in certain lights. 194: I believe this may be distinct from 

 Icevior; 197, also, is new I think. I don't think what you have sent me as Antho- 

 phagus caraboides is that insect; it seems to me to come nearer to Antk. alpinus. 

 There are many others, concerning which I am dubious, but shall tell you more 

 when I can compare them with my own insects . . . My entomological studies 



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