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" I swept a single specimen off growing wheat near Charlton in May 1829." — 

 E. Newman, Esq., to whom I am indebted for the description whence I 

 have drawn up the above: he remarks in his communication, "A capture of 

 more specimens would prove this a good species;" but of the propriety of 

 considering it distinct he entertains no doubt. 



Page 16. Dromius meridionalis I suspect is only a variety of the male of Ca. 

 agilis of Fabricius, described in p. 21. 



Page 21. Sp. 2 a. Dromius fenestratus. Steph. JNomen. 2d edit. col. 1. — Car. 

 fenest. Fabricius, S. E. i. 202.- Dr. fenest. Sturm. Deut. Faun. vii. 

 pi. clxviii.^. a. — Rufo-ferrngineus, ihorace subquadrato, elytrisfuscis, m,aculd 

 oblongd pallida in disco interiore antico. (Long. corp. 3lin.) 



Rusty-red : head very deep glossy-black ; mouth pitchy-red : thorax some- 

 what quadrate, its disc pitchy-black, with the margin ferruginous : elytra 

 black, with an oblong, pale patch on each a little before the middle, towards 

 the suture : legs and antennse pale testaceous. 



My specimen of this insect was taken in the south of Scotland : Gyllenhall 

 considers it to be a mere variety of Dr. agilis, but I cannot coincide in that 

 opinion, or it would have turned up in the south of England, where Dragilis 

 abounds. 



Page 21. Sp. 3 a. f. Dromius 4-signatus. De Jean. — Loudon Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. V. 328. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 1. — Pallidus, capite nigro, thorace 

 quadrato, rufo, elytris bast, sutura, angulis humeralibus, Jasciaque posticd 

 fuscis, subfus piceus. (Long. corp. 2 lin.) — Babingtou (m Loud.) 1. c. 



Pale : head black : thorax quadrate, rusty-red, with the margins paler : elytra 

 yellowish, with, a little behind the middle, a broad transverse brown fascia, 

 dilated posteriorly on the outer margin, and connected by the suture with a 

 triangular spot of the same colour at the base, the exterior angles of which 

 are a little produced, so as to form an elongated patch on each side of the 

 elytra : apex of the suture pale : abdomen pitchy beneath. 



Taken at Madingley Wood, Cambridgeshire, in March 1831, and subsequently 

 in the same county. 



Page 176. t. Dromius Sigma. The insect here recorded appears, from the in- 

 vestigation of my friend C. C. Babington, Esq. not to be the Dr. Sigma of 

 De Jean : it is probably the Dr. 4-signatus of that author : his Dr. Sigma, I 

 believe, is not indigenous. With regard to all the fasciated Dromii, there 

 seems to exist considerable doubt as to the identity of the indigenous and 

 continental species, — the one called Dr. Sigma by Mr. Curtis is evidently 

 not that insect; I referred it to De Jean's Dr. bifasiatus in the second edition 

 of my Nomenclature, col. 2 ; but Mr. Babington tells me it is certainly dif- 

 ferent from that insect, and it does not appear to be described : he has 



