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their captures, and not to disgust them with the “disagreement of 
doctors” as to the vexed question of priority. 
Mr. Crotch has also given me information on various points con- 
nected with the matters in question between us, from which it is quite 
clear to me that he represents in his ‘ Catalogue’ the views of others, 
rather than his own convictions (founded on personal examination) 
as to the existence, specific or British, of divers insects therein 
enumerated. 
E. C.. Byg. 
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Coleoptera at Stochwell.—I have for some time been at some pains in compiling a 
list of the beetles that have occurred in our house, garden and field here. This list 
I give below in a tabulated form. The result, showing a total number of 460 species 
indigenous to us, is more favourable than I had expected, and is an unanswerable 
proof of the productiveness of the London district. Among my captures are a great 
many rarities, including some which neither I, nor any of my friends, have found else- 
where near London. Among the rarest I may mention Bembidium 5-striatum, Euthia 
plicata, Anommatus 12-striatus, Megapenthes lugens, Ischnodes sanguinicollis, Xylo- 
philus populneus, Eryx atra, Barynotus obscurus, Opilus mollis and Euplectus 
Kunzei. It will be seen by the table below that the Brachelytra have, as might be 
expected,a grand majority; this is in some measure due to the existence of several 
hot-beds, on which the Philonthi, Xantholini and other similar genera swarm, Of 
the first-named geuus I include in my list no less than twenty-five species, viz.:— 
Philonthus splendens Philonthus marginatus Philonthus varians 
A intermedius A sordidus ” debilis 
$) laminatus PH fimetarius rs ventralis 
= carbonarius cephalotes Ay discoideus 
Ee punctiventris a ebeninus > Thermarum 
Pa eeneus “& sanguinolentus és nigritulus 
os politus 9 2-pustulatus i villosulus 
33 varius + longicornis - procerulus 
a4 albipes 
The Geodephaga are ndt inadequately represented, although they are mostly common 
species. The few species of Hydradephaga were ingloriously captured in a cow-tub. 
I have not worked much with the net, and therefore the Eupoda have but few repre- 
sentatives, but I anticipate doubling their number during the present season. I now 
subjoin the list referred to, premising, for the sake of statistical exactitude, that the 
collecting-ground covers an area of about three acres :— 
Geodephaga . : . =o pon Heteromera. 2) wt 15 
Hydradephaga ; : 7 4/6 Rhyncophora : . 53 
Brachelytra . . ; + 168 Malacodermi .. . . « 18 
Necrophaga  . . 3 of a Longicornes F - PRE 
Lamellicornes . : ; 22 Eupoda . ‘ A 16 
Semi ee LS a Pseudotrimera . . . 27 
—H. Montague; Stockwell, April 12, 1864. 
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