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palings. The tips of the elytra are much paler than the rest of the insect, a peculi- 

 arity not noticed by Mr. Stephens. It has a strange partiality for amputating- legs 

 and antennae : the first that I took, and put into quills, actually did not leave each 

 other a leg to stand on : I noticed it from the end of May up to the present time. Mr. 

 Hardy has noticed it in Berwickshire, and found a few stray specimens in Gateshead. — 

 Thomas John Bold ; 42, Bigg Market, Newcastle-on-Tyne, August 19th, 1846. 



Capture of Apion Limonii in the Isle of Sheppeg. — I swept two specimens of this 

 insect from the same ground, and thereby established a new locality for both this and 

 Agdistes. Two species of Statice (Armeria and Limonium) grow in some parts of 

 Sheppey, and in the south bank of the Medway in great profusion, and the latter spe- 

 cies was in full bloom. — Thomas Ingall ; Bank of England. 



Capture of Ctenicerus sanguinicollis in Cambridgeshire. — Three specimens of this 

 rare insect have lately occurred at Fulbourn, near Cambridge, and are now in my 

 possession. I had them for a fortnight alive, for the sake of watching their habits. 

 They are much more active than the generality of the Elateridae, and, when let loose 

 on the table, ran with such activity that it was often difficult to re-secure them. Three 

 specimens were taken from the same tree last year, one of which is also in my collec- 

 tion. Their capture was recorded in the ' Zoologist ' by my friend, the Rev. Hamlet 

 Clark, of Northampton, who possesses the remaining pair. — T. Vernon Wollaston ; 

 Jesus College, Cambridge, March 6th, 1847. 



Occurrence of Trichius fasciatus near Ponty-y-pool. — In reply to the observations 

 of Mr. Weaver, (Zool. 1460) that the above insect has not been captured within 

 twenty years, I beg leave to state that I caught one specimen about a mile and a half 

 from this town about eight or nine years ago ; it is the only one I have met with ; it 

 was entering one of the flowers of a foxglove a few yards distance from where I stood. 

 Not having seen one before, I thought it was one of the smaller yellow humble bees, 

 and was very careful when opening the flower to avoid being stung, but to my surprise 

 when I had secured it, instead of a bee I found I had a beetle imprisoned. I have 

 always understood that it was to be found about Swansea and towards Pembrokeshire. 

 I cannot at present refer to my authority for that statement. Entomology has been 

 so little cultivated in this part of the kingdom, that it very probably may yet be found 

 in some of the intervening places between here and Swansea; as to its absence from 

 England, although we are in this county situated in England according to the civil 

 and political divisions of the kingdom, yet from the natural divisions of the country, 

 soil, climate and general aspect of the county, it may without any strain of language 

 be still considerd as a portion of South Wales. — James Bladon ; Ponty-y-pool. 



Capture of Trichius fasciatus near Neath- — I took a single specimen of this beau- 

 tiful insect on a blossom of Carduus heterophyllus near the falls at the top of Neath 

 Vale. — Alfred R. Wallace, Neath. [The other insects in my correspondent's list are 

 scarcely worth publishing. — E. Neivman]. 



Descriptions of a few Australian Beetles of the Order Ceramby cites. 



The beetles to which I have attempted to assign descriptions were brought over 

 from Australia by Lieutenant (now Commander) M. R. Ince, late of H.M.S. Fly, 

 and I am indebted to the kindness of his brother, W. H. Ince, Esq. for the opportunity 

 of examining them. The first and second belong to the family Ceramby cidaB, the 

 others to the family Lamiidae. 



Callidium vexatum. Brown. Antennae 11-jointed, slender, slightly hairy, the 

 third joint much the longest, especially in the male, in which sex the entire antenna is 



