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sweeping; (3) Niptus Gonospermi of Duval, twelve or four- 

 teen specimens taken by Mr. J. B. Syme on an old wall in 

 the Orkneys ; (4) Bruchus Lentis of Boheman, at Birch Wood 

 in May, and at Gravesend in June ; (5) B. nigripes of Gyllen- 

 hal (which in Kraatz's new Catalogue is said to be B. Viciae 

 of Olivier), at the Devil's Dyke, Brighton, in May ; (6) B. 

 nubilus of Boheman, near Surbiton and at Gravesend, in June 

 (this in the Stettin Catalogue is said to be B. luteicornis, but 

 in Kraatz's new Catalogue it is made a distinct species ; it 

 differs much in the form of the thorax, markings, size, &c., 

 and is more like B. seminarius) ; (7) B. canus of Germar, at 

 Gravesend, in June (this in the Stettin Catalogue is made 

 identical with B. Cisti of Fabricius, but it differs from 

 ordinary specimens of that species in the shape of the 

 thorax, length of antennae, more elongate form, and pe- 

 culiar gray colour; it is more like B. Loti: a specimen in 

 the European collection of the British Museum, named by 

 Germar and deposited by Walton, agrees exactly with the 

 Gravesend specimens). All these four species of Bruchus 

 were found in essentially wild places, far removed from 

 granaries or depositories of leguminous seeds, and were all 

 taken fortuitously by sweeping. And lastly, Phratora cavi- 

 frons of Thomson, taken at Esher in June, also at Cowley aftd 

 Darenth, on poplars: it was introduced into the British list 

 by Dr. Sharp, in the 'Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' 

 v.* 100. 



Meloe rugosus. — Mr. F. Smith exhibited Meloe rugosus of 

 Marsham (the autumnalis of Leach, and punctatus of Stephens), 

 a species not captured ibr the last thirty years, but formerly 

 taken, according to Stephens, near Margate. About three 

 weeks previously Mr. Smith, being near Prittlewell, Essex, 

 went to the nest of a species of Anthophora, in which M. pro- 

 scaraboEUS and other species are usually found, and by acci- 

 dent came upon a couple of dozen specimens of M. rugosus 

 among grass in the neighbourhood of the nest, crawling about 

 at the roots : he hoped to have kept them alive, but on the 

 second day of their captivity an indiscriminate fight was 

 commenced, in which both sexes joined ; only four escaped 

 mutilijtion, all the rest losing legs and antenna3, and being 

 reduced to fragments : the abdomen of each of the females 

 was afterwards opened, and it ap})eared that, with one ex- 



