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in one of tlie wooded ravines of this little island that Dicranocephalus was taken, and 

 this is the true and particular history of his capture. I am ashore with the watering- 

 party, and as usual on the alert for beetles. Net in hand I wander far away over the 

 hill-side, beating now and then the oak-scrub for Balaninus and Apoderus, or bagging 

 pretty Longicorns as they come flying by, or tiiking glittering Agrili and its allies as 

 they pitch on the sunny oak-leaves ; and this, by the way, is how the Buprestidge may 

 be caught. Old Turner may patiently dissect decayed stumps of hawthorn in the New 

 Forest for Autbaxia, but if he had watched, net in hand, in the fern among the young 

 oaks, he would have seen them shining in the sun. However, as I wander on, I "keep 

 my weather eye lifting," as we say in nautical phrase. Now friend Buckley has an 

 especial penchant for game of a larger kind, looking down secretly may be on beetles 

 and "such small deer," so, gun in hand, he is on the trail of a buck. On a sudden I 

 am aware that something of an unwonted nature has succeeded in astonishing the 

 mind of my predatory companion, for " Doctor! doctor !" resounds through the gulley. 

 Hastening as fast as untractable boughs and prickly twining stems of Smilax will 

 permit uie to the scene of excitement, I am agreeably surprised on beholding a strange 

 great Coleopteron feebly struggling in a green bed of oak-leaves, and my friend of the 

 fowling-piece gazing with surprise, not unmixed with alarm, at its unwonted aspect. 

 I know him for a Goliath, and raise him carefully from his verdurous couch. Haply 

 he has been flying in the sun round yonder cluster of fir trees near the top of the hill, 

 and fallen, like Icarus of old, from his high estate. His body is covered with a downy 

 bloom, like the sunny side of a ripe plum, and his head is adorned with two conical 

 horns; hence his name, Dicranocephalus, or "he of the double helmet." He is very 

 strong, and in his ways resembles Octonia and Melolontha. I read in ' Maunder' that 

 one specimen, now in the British Museum, was taken on the Himalayan Mountains, 

 so that my prize, if not indigenous to the Korea, must have travelled a pretty long 

 way. Be that as it may, he is now carded (not barbarously transfixed by a pin), and 

 graces my store-box, wherein are displayed many beetles of equal beauty, but 

 possibly of less celebrity. — Id. 



Chrysomela marginaiis found on the Mainland of Caithness, N.B. — My son, 

 William Betts Peach, found a short time since the above-named pretty beetle on the 

 island of Stroma, in some numbers on the grassy slopes at the north end and west side 

 of that island. On first seeing a specimen I called it the Royal Volunteer, from the 

 red stripe running down each side of it. Not being an entomologist I sent specimens 

 to Andrew Murray, Esq., of Edinburgh, who kindly named it for me, and added, 

 " Common on the Continent, but Orkney is the only Scotch locality yet recorded." 

 Stroma belongs to the county of Caithness, and thus with perfect propriety it could be 

 claimed for Scotland ; now it may be safely, for on Saturday last, the 28th inst., ray son 

 found it rather plentiful on Duncansbay Head, and the clifls thence to near Freswick, 

 on the mainland of Caithness.— CAaWes William Peach ; Wick, N.B., April 30, 1860. 

 [The insect is Chrysomela sanguinolenta of our cabinets. — E. N.'\ 



Notes on the British TrichojpterygidiB, ivith Descriptions of some New 

 Species. By the Rev. A. Matthews, M.A. 



Since the publication of my former paper on the Trichopterygidse 

 many very interesting additions have been made to the list of our 



