APPENDIX. 



Page 5. Ptomaphagus truncatus. (C Not uncommon near Nottingham." — 

 Dr. Howitt. "Stainton, &c." — T. C. Heysham, Esq. 



Page 6. Ptomaphagus Watsoni. " One specimen only taken near Notting- 

 ham." — Dr. Howitt. 



Page 8. Catops fornicatus. " Great Barrock." — T. C. Heysham, Esq. 



Page 13. CHOLEyAangustata. " Rather uncommon." — Dr. Howitt. " Meldon 



Park, Northumberland." — G. Wailes, Esq. 

 Page 17. Necrophorus Sepultor. " Once taken near Nottingham."— Dr. 



Howitt. " Dawlish, Devon." — C. C. Babington, Esq. 



Page 17. Necrophorus Humator. " Very common." — Dr. Howitt. " New- 

 castle and Meldon Park, common." — G. Wailes, Esq. 



Page 18. Necrophorus Vestigator. " Very abundant." — Dr. Howitt. c< New- 

 castle and Meldon Park." — G. Wailes, Esq. 



Page 18. Necrophorus interruptus. " Rare; near Nottingham, specimens 12 

 lines in length." — Dr. Howitt. "Phillack, Cornwall, N. W. Hockin, Esq." 

 — C. C. Babington, Esq. 



Page 19. Necrophorus Mortuorum. " Mansfield and Welbeck, Notts." — 

 Dr. Howitt. " Monks-wood, Hants, and Buckley Vale, Devon." — C. C. Ba- 

 bington, Esq. 



Page 20. Necrophorus Vespillo. " Very common in Notts." — Dr. Howitt. 

 « Newcastle and Meldon Park."— G. Wailes, Esq. " Rose Castle."— T. C. 

 Heysham, Esq. "Monks-wood, Hants." — C. C Babington, Esq. 



Page 21. Necrodes littoralis. Curtis, vii. pi. 334. — " In dead animals in the 

 vale of Trent."— Dr. Howitt. " Meldon Park, Newcastle, sea-shore, Tyne- 

 mouth, common." — G. Wailes, Esq. 



It would scarcely be worth while to call the reader's attention to the great 

 variations to which this insect is subject, were it not that the extreme varieties 

 have been assumed to be distinct, and in the description thereof I allow sufficient 

 cause so to consider them is apparent; but it is scarcely necessary to apprize 

 the student that in every case where an animal is subject to great variation, a 

 contrasted description of its more extraordinary varieties may give the semblance 

 of specific difference : as an instance, the comparatively gigantic Lucanus Cervus 

 may be mentioned ; — in that insect, out of 50 examples, taken at random, the 



