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locality indicated for the others*; the remaining one, X. atri- 

 cilla, has been observed on two occasions on the south coast of 

 England, and by Montagu only. Of the twof additional Euro- 

 pean species, X. melanocephalum and X. ichthya'etum, the former 

 inhabits " southern/^ the latter " south-eastern " Europe. Xema 

 Franklini is the only North American species which has not been 

 obtained in Europe. 



XXII. — On the Insects of Jamaica. By Philip Henry Gosse. 



[Continued from p. 115.] 



COLEOPTERA. 



1. Cicindela Guadalupensis. I found this species in some 

 numbers about the end of the year at Alligator Pond, on the 

 sandy beach, close to the wharf; where the Canavalia rosea grows, 

 and the beautiful Convolvulus pes caprce makes a carpet of verdure, 

 and trails its long stems over the heavy sand. In May it was 

 numerous at low-water on a little sandy (or perhaps rather 

 muddy) point at Bluefields Creek, formed from the draining of 

 the morass at the junction of the creek with the sea : immense 

 numbers of little Gelasimi run over this point, and perforate it 

 with their burrows in every part. Among them the Cicindelce 

 also run when it is not covered by the tide. They are as wary 

 and as agile as their congeners elsewhere ; on the wing with the 

 approach of a footstep, and alighting at the distance of a few 

 yards, so as to be caught with difficulty even with a net. I have 

 taken them by running headlong among them, and making a 

 dash at random with the net. 



{Carabida. Two or three small species of this great family, I 

 believe, occurred under stones at the summit of Bluefields Moun- 

 tain, but I cannot now find the specimens so as to determine 

 their genera.) 



2. Cybister lavigatus. In some of the rivulets that cross the 

 liigh road between Paradise and Savanna le mar. Its manners 

 resemble those of the English Dyticidce. 



I' 3. Copelatus ccelatipennis. 

 [1. Dineutes longimanus. At Basin Spring, in a brook having 

 * The species of Larus (as distinguished from Xema) frequenting Belfast 

 Bay are L. mariniis, L.fuscus, L. argentatus, L. canus, L. tridacfi/lus and 

 L. Islandicus ; all of which are common but the last : — it was once obtained. 

 Specimens of these, as well as of the Xemee noticed from the same locality, 

 are preserved in the Belfast Museum. 



t X . plumiceps, Boiiap., is not enumerated in the ' Wirbelthicrc Europa's ' 

 or ' Rev. Crit. dcs Oiseaux d'Eur.' (Schlegel). 



