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scattered throughout the wood (which I suppose contains 200 or 800 

 acres), I expected to find this Elater in any part. But no ! — after 

 sweeping in all parts, I never could succeed in finding a single speci- 

 men save in the same little row of heath-bushes, on the same bank on 

 which I first discovered it; and here I was always sure to find a few 

 specimens. 



Last year I used to find Chrysomela distinguenda, in some abun- 

 dance, crawling at the road-sides in this neighbourhood, but this year 

 I did not find a single specimen. The same observation applies to 

 Chrysomela Banksii. Last year I took several specimens in the road, 

 this year none. Last year also I met with two stray specimens of the 

 beautiful C. Goettingensis, this year I was not so fortunate. 



By the way, can any of your readers inform me what this last-men- 

 tioned Chrysomela feeds upon ? I have taken several specimens, both 

 here and in Kent, but they were always wandering singly, as if in 

 search of something, indeed I think several of the family are somewhat 

 of an erratic nature. 



Having noticed in the ' Zoologist ' that Nebria livida and N. com- 

 planata were to be found at the cliffs near Bridlington Quay, I de- 

 puted one of my brothers, who lives in the neighbourhood, to procure 

 some for me. He went one evening in August, between 6 and 7 

 o'clock, and although no collector, he had no difficulty in discovering 

 the whereabouts of N. livida, which was most abundant. This time 

 he staid only ten minutes, but the result of that ten minutes' research 

 I received two days after, in the shape of seventy-five specimens of N. 

 livida, and several others of a commoner kind. 



Another visit was afterwards paid to the spot, in the hope of finding. 



N. complanata, but my brother could not find a specimen of it, while 



in the mud-cliffs N. livida literally swarmed. He informed that on 



splitting open the cracks in the clay, they stuck together by dozens, 



and that hundreds might easily have been taken. 



J. Pemberton Bartlett. 

 Fordingbridge, December, 1851. 



Trochilium Chrysidiforme. — Until within these five weeks I had not heard of a 

 specimen of the above insect being in Mr. Curtis's or in any other collection, beyond 

 the one referred to in my ' Illustrations,' and the (at present apocryphal) capture, in 

 Hampshire, of a specimen by Mr. Barron, or I should not have rejected it from my re- 

 cent List. The example referred to by me as above, now in Mr. Shepherd's collec- 

 tion, was alleged to have been taken by Mr. Francillon, as I was informed by Mr. 

 Hawortb, in a thick grove ; but in a list of the rarer British species of which indigc- 



