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from the cultivated country, Acalles echinatus may be taken in abundance, and with 

 it, though less plentifully, that rarer species Roboris (Curtis), of which not more than 

 three or four specimens had previously been taken in this country. Here, also, Mr. 

 Walton (who, with the Rev. H. Clark, was induced to join me in exploring the riches 

 of this charming locality) detected, and will shortly describe, a new species of Tychius. 

 It occurs sparingly on a grassy bank. In the same spot Mr. Clark and myself each 

 captured a single specimen of a new Nedyus. 



The following is a list of the more striking species which within this last month 

 have occurred in this rich locality ; and Coleopterists will admit that, though brief, it 

 is by no means meagre in point of interest, as regards the character of the insects 

 therein recorded. 



Dromius fasciatus. Hypera murina, &c. 



Dyschirius thoracicus. Limobius mixtus. 



■ politus. Lixus bicolor. 



Calathus crocopus. Apion minimum. 



Amara erythropa. seniculus. 



— spreta, &c. pubescens. 



Bradytus consularis. Curtisii. 



Harpalus serripes. vernale. 



• tardus. brevicolle. 



anxius, &c. nigritarse. 



Masoreus luxatus. difForme. 



Notaphus ustulatus. dissimile. 



Lopha pusilla. Choragus Sheppardii. 



Nedyus Crux (Walt), n. sp. Thyamis femoralis. 



Echii. ochroleuca. 



ruficrus, &c. Sarrotrium muticum. 



Amalus scortillum. Crypticus quisquilius. 

 Acalles Roboris. Platydema asnea. 

 echinatus. Salpingus ruficollis. 



Tychius nigrirostris (Walt.), n. sp. planirostris. 



Gronops lunatus. Sphasriestes 4-pustulatus. 



Hypera fasciculata. 

 — /. F. Dawson, LL.B. ; Ramsgate, September 12, 1848. 



Occurrence of Badister peltatus in England. — A single specimen of this beetle, taken 

 by Mr. Ingall near London, is in that gentleman's cabinet. It has little similarity in 

 figure and none in colouring to the other British species of Badister, its habit and 

 figure being that of a Trimorphus. Believing it an undescribed species of that genus, 

 I described it as new in the fifth volume of the ' Entomological Magazine,' as under : 

 " Trimorphus Erro. The antennas are long, slender, and nearly black, the apical por- 

 tion paler and somewhat downy, as usual in the family ; the basal joint is elongate, 

 and is nearly white both at its base and apex ; the second joint is pale at the apex 

 only : the head is black and smooth : the prothorax is nigro-aeneous, obcordate, nar- 

 row, and truncated posteriorly, having a deep longitudinal median line, and a large 

 and deep fovea in each posterior angle : the elytra are nigro-ameous, regularly and 

 somewhat deeply striated : the legs are piceous (Ent. Mag. v. 489).— E. Newman. 



