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found more than a few yards from the water, although never so close to Jthat element 

 as B. paludosum. It prefers such dry sandy places as are sparingly covered with grass. 

 I found it rather abundant on the 15th of June, but on visiting the same locality on 

 the 12th of July, I could only find one solitary individual. 



Broscus cephalotes. This species, so common on the sea-coast, I met with near 

 Axwell Park, burrowed, as usual, six or eight inches deep in the firm sand by the Der- 

 went side. This locality is some fourteen miles from the sea. 



Serica brurmea. This exceedingly common coast insect has once or twice occurred 

 at a considerable distance from the coast ; a friend took a specimen at Gibside last 

 season, and I captured three others in Cumberland on the 12th of this month. 

 — Thos. Jno. Bold ; 42, Bigg Market, Newcastle-on-Tyne, July 23, 1845. 



Capture of Coleopterous Insects in Leicestershire. About the middle of last June I 

 spent a few days at Newtown-Linford, in order to collect insects frequenting Sheet- 

 Hedges and other woods in that neighbourhood. I captured there, specimens of Gym- 

 naetron Beccabungae, Cionus Blattariae, Orobitis cyaneus, Anoplus plantaris, Anthono- 

 mus incurvus and Ulmi, Errhinus noeris, Otiorhynchus ligneus and Attelabus Curcu- 

 lionides. Under the oak-trees after a thunder-storm, three specimens of Rhynchites 

 pubescens, nanus, minutus (Herbst.), aeneovirens. On a gate-post, Brachytarsus sca- 

 brosus, and near the same locality last year, Choragus Sheppardi. Twice I took Silpha 

 4-punctata, flying. By sweeping the long grass, Limonius serraticornis and Crypto- 

 hypnus 4-pustulatus. Prosternon holosericeus beaten out of whitethorn. Athous 

 subfuscus and Campylis linearis in the woods, male of the latter very abundant. Te- 

 lephorus lateralis, Ragonycha pilosa and Malachius fasciatus. Melasoma eenea on the 

 alder, in the low damp parts of the wood. I noticed the larva? of Chrysomela Hyperici 

 in abundance, feeding on Hypericum perforatum ; C. 10-punctata very common upon 

 the sallow. Ischnomera caerulea, one. Donacia Sagittariae, on rushes in Bradgate- 

 park. Early in June a friend and myself took about two hundred specimens of Dona- 

 cia Menyanthidis, and also Donacia nigra in profusion. A young entomologist here 

 captured Donacia angustata and dentipes at Misterton, near Lutterworth, making 

 fourteen species of Donacia taken in Leicestershire. — H. B. Kirby ; Leicester. 



Habits of Epaphius Secalis fyc. I have remarked before, in ' The Zoologist,' the 

 occurrence of several species of beetles, generally obscurely known, in the sediment of 

 the floods in our meadows. This spring, I have been much pleased in detecting some 

 of them in their natural abodes ; the Epaphius Secalis, for instance, I have found run- 

 ning about at the roots of rank grass and herbage in osier-holts, where I have no doubt 

 it has its natural and permanent residence, in a fertile but contracted field of useful- 

 ness. Its habit is similar to that of the other subulipalpate Geodephaga, as the Bem- 

 bidiides, Philocthus biguttatus &c. In the same situation, too, I have found Hypoli- 

 thus riparius, whose precise habit, although I had found it by hundreds in the floods, 

 I had never before observed. It was in great abundance on the ground, especially 

 around and on the stumps of the willows that supply the osier twigs, its habit is there- 

 fore like that of the true genus Elater, lignivorous. Many of the stumps whereon 

 found Hypolithus were reduced to a partial state of decay. These osier-holts, during 

 the month of June, are very prolific both in herbage and insect life, and I have no 

 doubt it is from these places that the profusion of beetles is swept down our river dnr 

 big floods. On the willows abound Galeruca lineola and tenella, and amongst the 

 deep herbage, which is everywhere nearly up to the chin, are a vast number of Coleop- 

 tera not common anywhere else. Erirhinus schirrosus, Cyphon testaceus and margi- 



