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H. parallelus, Sharp. I have a single specimen of this species, which was 

 taken by a friend in the north of Northumberland. 



H. incognitos, Sharp. I had eight examples of this species, taken in various 

 places in this vicinity, three of which have been lost in the post. Some years ago, 

 I separated it as distinct from palustris, but, on sending it to London, was told that 

 it was only an immature variety of that commonest of all commoners. — Thos. Jno. 

 Bold, Long Benton, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 18th October, 1869. 



Pterostichus madidus a vegetable-feeder. — My friend Mr. Jas. Hardy writes me 

 that he caught a specimen of this common beetle eating a bean, which was still 

 green, and had been crushed by a passing foot ; thus adding another to the list of 

 vegetable-feeding Geodephaga. — Id. 



Captures of rare Coleoptera in Devonshire. — On 10th October last, I took, on 

 the wing in my conservatory here, a specimen of a minute Trichopterygian, which, 

 as Mr. Matthews tells me, is Actidium coarctatum, Haliday, of the greatest rarity 

 in this country, having been found only by its describer in Ireland, and (single 

 specimens) by Dr. Sharp and Mr. Crotch on the Chesil Bank. It appears to be 

 recorded also from Sweden, the south of France, and Egypt. I also take here, in 

 company with the common Lathridius minutus, what I consider to be L. assimilis, 

 Mann., with alternately raised interstices to the elytra, and usually dark legs ; 

 otherwise extremely resembling L. minutus. — T. V. Wollaston, Barnepark Ter- 

 race, Teignmouth, November, 1869. 



Occurrence of Bembidium obliquum at Manchester. — On a warm sunny day in 

 last April, an example of the above rare beetle occurred to me at Clifton, near 

 Manchester, in a similar habitat to that recorded at page 219, vol. v, of this 

 Magazine. In May last, I captured Harpalus neglectus at the foot of the sand hills 

 at Southport, near the New Hotel. — T. Morley, 29, John Street, Pendleton, 

 Manchester, November 13th, 1869. 



Capture of Anisoxya fuscula, Gyll. — I have lately met with a single example 

 of this rare Heteromerous beetle near here, crawling on a stone wall, a singular 

 situation for such a species. I have also taken (near here) Cryphalus binodulus in 

 abundance ; Mycetochares bipustulata in decayed oak, but more often dead than 

 alive ; Brachytarsus scabrosus, in exceeding abundance about May, in most white- 

 thorn hedges; and Colon brunneum (2), by sweeping in the evening. — H. Marsh, 

 842, Old Kent Road, S.B. 



Note on Asiraca clavicornis, Fab. — Early in the morning of the 1st June last 

 I found myself in Dartford, and, unexpectedly, with a lucid interval of half-an-hour 

 to wait for the next train to London, chains and slavery. Then there revived 

 within me a fond recollection of the lane " within easy distance " (as the house- 

 agents say), where the males of Drilus flavescens used to abound ; where the female 

 doubtless then existed, and might possibly now be found ; where Asiraca clavicornis 

 had once or twice been swept up by Mr. Eye ; and where representatives might 

 still exist. Filled with these ideas, I startled a chemist by an abrupt demand for 



