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been captured by myself in the identical pool in 1847. Stenolopbus 

 vespertinus and Trecbus luridus occurred sparingly ; but Trecbus 

 consputus, Bembidiura Clarkii, Dawson, Agonum picipes, and Oma- 

 seus antbracinus were in the greatest abundance. Gymnaetron Bec- 

 cabungae, as formerly, was not uncommon ; and a single specimen of 

 the rare Myrmedonia collaris is the only other capture I need record 

 at Herringstone. 



Passing onwards, then, to the coast near Bridport, it was our prin- 

 cipal object to endeavour to obtain, if possible, the rare little Dromius 

 quadrillum, a single pair of which I formerly captured in the Bay of 

 Freshwater (Zool. 1942), two miles to the eastward of that town. 

 Failing in our researches for this insect, we spent but a single morn- 

 ing at Freshwater, which did not produce much. The minute Den- 

 drophilus minimus, however, appears to be tolerably common about 

 the roots of plants at the foot of the sand cliffs facing the sea. The 

 pale variety of Peryphus saxatilis, hitherto only observed in the Isle 

 of Wight, is abundant. Brachinus crepitans, also tolerably common ; 

 and two or three small species of Ochthebius, and some scarce 

 Brachelytra, occurred under the rejectamenta deposited by the little 

 stream which empties itself into the sea. A single specimen also of 

 a Peryphus, with largely developed mandibles, and apparently new to 

 the British Fauna, was captured by Mr. Dawson in the same spot. 

 From Freshwater we passed on to Lyme Regis and Charmouth, where 

 the insects are of much the same character as in the neighbourhood 

 of Bridport. The pale variety of Peryphus saxatilis, as there, is 

 everywhere common ; and on the sandy slopes by the road-side to the 

 westward of Charmouth, Harpalus honestus appears to be tolerably 

 abundant. 



Parting with my friend Mr. Dawson at Lyme, I pursued my course 

 to Exeter, and from thence to the mouth of the Exe, where a narrow 

 strip of sand, two miles in length, known as Exmouth Warren, and 

 midway between the Starcross and Dawlish stations of the South De- 

 von Railway, stretches out into a tongue-like waste opposite to Ex- 

 mouth, from which it is, at its extremity, alone separated by the mouth 

 of the river, there considerably contracted. At the root of this sandy 

 bar, the railroad (which from Exeter skirts the banks of the Exe) 

 makes a sudden curve, in a south-westerly direction, down the coast ; 

 exactly at which point the little hamlet of Mount Pleasant, upon the 

 hill-slopes to the right, commands a magnificent prospect of the 

 Warren, with the more abrupt shores of Exmouth on the opposite 

 banks. 



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