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rarities were taken by himself and his orenial partner; but 

 they mast certainly have been very much lar^^er in number 

 than is generally believed. And it is sad to think how the 

 contents of many "screws " of his finest New Forest, Scotch 

 and Sherwood beetles are probably now "wasting their 

 sweetness in the desert air" of unappreciating possessors, or 

 have been lost or destroyed as valueless. 



Turner had a hard life, and, of course, no education or 

 training save in that rough school that takes less pains than' 

 ours to hide the worldly main rule of getting the better of 

 one's fellows. And he had at times rudimentary instincts 

 of justice, wdiich impelled him to make good former defi- 

 ciencies. We certainly could have better spared a better 

 man. 



I. Lebia chrysocephala, Motschulsky, Bull. Mosc, 

 1864, 225 {Lamprias) ; E. C. Rye, " The Entomo- 

 logist's Monthly Magazine," vol. iv, p. 190. 

 It seems not impossible that the small and constant race of 

 X. chlorocephala, found at Shirley, and never accompanied 

 by the type form, may be identical with Motschiilsky's 

 insect, which is stated to be of the colour and build of L. 

 chlorocephala, but smaller, with the elytia a third shorter, 

 and the thorax less transverse. The punctuation of the 

 interstices is not to be relied on as a character. 



2. Anchomenus moestus, viduus and emarginatus. 



Mr. G. R. Crotch (Newman's " Entomologist," No. 53, 

 p. 66) states that M. Thomson, in Skand. Col. Supp. before 

 referred to, maintains the distinctness of these species, and 

 enumerates their difi'erences. 



M. Thomson, however, makes no reference to any dis- 

 tinguishing marks for A. emarcjinatus ; but, in addition to 



