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produce many more good insects. In other localities in the neighbourhood I took 

 Carabus consitus, Leistus spinibarbis and fulvilabris, Licinus depressus and silphoides, 

 Poecilus dimidiatus, Echimuthus cyanocephalus, Sphodrus leucophthalmus, Trachys 

 minuta, Polydrusus micans and undatus, Saperda cylindrica, Aphelocnemia nubila, 

 Chrysomela hoemoptera, Graminis, and one specimen of the beautiful Gcettingen- 

 sis, and one of Opilus mollis. The ivy with which the church at Kingston is covered 

 abounds with specimens of Ochina ptinoides. In June I took nearly 200 specimens 

 of Tanymecus palliatus, in a field of clover, close to a wood : 1 found them first by 

 sweeping, but they were so numerous that I was able to find them on the leaves of 

 the plant, — but on the slightest alarm they fell to the ground, and it was with some 

 difficulty I could distinguish them from the earth, on which they lay feigning death. 

 On the 26th of May I spent a few hours at a village called Swale Cliff", between 

 Heme Bay and Whitstable. There is nothing particularly attractive about the lo- 

 cality to the entomologist: the walk, however, from Heme Bay to Whitstable, would 

 not be without its interest and its captures ; but the spot most worthy of a visit, and 

 most likely to repay the trouble, is above the shore, nearly opposite to the church at 

 Swale Cliff, where the Swale itself (or some tributary stream) empties itself into the 

 sea. The soft muddy banks abound with many members of the family of Bembi- 

 diidae, among which I took specimens of Notaphus Ephippium and Lopha Doris. I 

 have been thus particular in describing this spot, thinking that some of the readers 

 of the ' Zoologist' may perchance visit Heme Bay, and would be glad to know of 

 the locality. During my sojourn in Kent, I paid several visits to the now celebrated 

 sands near Deal (once or twice I had for my companion the Rev. J. Dawson, to whom 

 the thanks of the entomological world are due for making known this interesting 

 collecting-ground, and for his discoveries therein) : here I had the pleasure of taking 

 the beautiful Lixus bicolor, Hypera fasciculata, Gronops lunatus, Acalles Roboris 

 and echinatus, Sarrotrium muticum, Crypticus quisquilius, Limobius mixtus, &c. &c. 

 I also had the good fortune to take about a dozen specimens of Apion Sedi, and one 

 or two of Ceutorhyncus hirtulus (both first discovered here last year by Mr. Dawson 

 and Mr. Clark). A few years since, a specimen of Melolontha Fullo was found on 

 these sands at Deal : it is now in the Canterbury Museum, where there is, I regret to 

 say, but a poor and ill-arranged collection of British beetles. At Dover, too, they 

 are no better off. Unfortunately in neither place is there now any practical working 

 collector, which is the more to be regretted, as, from their situation, the neighbour- 

 hood of both towns presents a prolific field for Entomology generally, and Coleoptera 

 particularly. The museum at Maidstone, however, established last year by Dr. 

 Plomley, — in connexion with the Kent Natural History and Archaeological Society, — 

 I trust may be looked upon as eventually aiding the cause of Entomology : its objects 

 are so excellent that I hope it will meet with the support and patronage it so well 

 deserves, and that the entomological department will soon become as extensive as the 

 ornithological at present is. I will only add, in conclusion, that I shall be happy to 

 make exchanges with any of your correspondents who may have duplicate Coleoptera, 

 especially in the more northern species. — T. Pemberton Bartlett ; Gorley Cross, 

 Fordingbridge, Hants, December 4, 1849. 



