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fall-grown larvae and pupse of 0. stercorarius. The pupa lies in a firm cocoon, 

 formed partly of earth and partly of the remains of the pabulum, usually at the 

 far end of the tunnel where the egg was originally placed, the larva having traversed 

 the tunnel backwards and forwards at least once (I suspect, oftener). — T. Algernon 

 Chapman, Abergavenny, January, 1870. 



Agabus tarsatics taken in Northumberland. — I found, in a duplicate box, a single 

 specimen of this recently introduced rare species, and which was taken by myself 

 in this neighbourhood. It closely resembles in form and size A. gutattus, and, as 

 such, I have no doubt passed it over at the time of capture ; it differs however, 

 from that spring-frequenting species in having the legs darker coloured, the upper 

 surface covered with fine curved anastomosing stria?, and the two pale spots 

 towards the apex of the elytra replaced by a piceous dash just within the margin, 

 which reaches from the suture to quite one-third the length of the elytra. — 

 T. J. Bold, Long Benton, Newcastle-on-Tyne, January, 1870. 



Captures of Coleoptera during the past season. — On the coast of Whitstable, 

 Kent, I have taken the following species, amongst others : — Polistichus vittatus, 

 Pogonus luridipennis and littoralis, Bembidium scutellare and ephippium. Pterostichus 

 inwqualis, Dichirotichus obsoletus, Anisodactylus pceciloides, Bryaxis simplex, Trogo- 

 phloeus tenellus, Corticaria curta, Coccinella labilis, Heterothops binotatus, Philonthus 

 procerulus, Staphylinus stercorarius, Ochthebius marinus, margipellens, bicolor, ozratus 

 and pygmmus, Berosus mriceps, Agabus conspersus (common), Hydrobius oblongus 

 and bicolor, Donacia menyanthidis and nigra, Erirhinus festucw, Bagous tempestivus 

 and Silpha opaca. 



In the neighbourhood of Croydon : — Acidota cruentata (in a sand pit at Shirley), 

 Harpalus cordatus and punctatulus, Amara rufocincta, Pano.gosus 4>-pustulatus, 

 Licinus depressus and Byrrhus Dennii; and on the chalk-downs near Henley, 

 Salpingus castaneus, Cryphalus abietis, Tomicus micrographus, Ilyobates forticomis, 

 Sibynes primitus, Scaphidema metallica, Balaninus rubidus, Miarus campanulas, 

 Thyamis atriceps, Agathidium convexum, Cceliodes ruber and rubicundus, Smicronyx 

 cicwr, Romalota mortuorum, atomaria, testaceipes and pagana, and Clerus formi- 

 carius. 



In the neighbourhood of Dartford, Greenhithe, and Darenth Wood : — Lcemo- 

 plilceus clematidis, Hypulus quercinus, Trachys minutus, Xylophilus populneus, 

 Acalles roboris and Scymnus minimus. 



At Mickleham, Box Hill, and Buckland : — Colon Zebei (one specimen, £ ) and 

 brunneum, Thalycra sericea, Trichonyx Mcerkelli, Eydnobius strigosus and punctatus, 

 Thiasophila inquilina, Eros minutus, Crypto cephalus nitidulus, Hyperaspis reppensis, 

 Lcemophloeus ferrugineus, Gonioctena pallida (beaten off hazel), Malthodes fibulatus, 

 dispar and atomus, Crepidodera atropce, Ceuthorhynchideus quercicola (Wat. Cat.) 

 and punctiger, Scydmwnus angulatus, denticornis, pumilio and elongatulus, Anthero- 

 phagus silaceus, Mordellistena lateralis, Psylliodes dulcamarce, Xyloterus domesticus 

 and Aspidophorus orbiculatus. 



In July, I spent three days in the New Forest, and, though too late to get 

 many desiderata, took the following species, amongst others : — Microrhagus pygmazus 



