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tall wing-grass which grows on the sand-hills. 8. Harpalus rupicola 

 of Sturm, found in chalky districts, Dorking, Basingstoke and the 

 Isle of Wight. 9. Harpalus sulphuripes of Germar ; a single exam- 

 ple taken near Bristol. 10. Harpalus Wollastoni, of which four or 

 five specimens were captured by Mr. Wollaston, in May, 1852, at 

 Slapton Ley, Devonshire. 11. Harpalus melancholicus of Dejean, 

 captured by Mr. Wollaston near Swansea. 12. Stenolophus elegans 

 of Dejean, found by the Rev. Hamlet Clark between Sheerness and 

 Queensborough, in the Isle of Sheppey. 13. Stenolophus derelictus 

 of Dawson, found near London by Mr. F. Smith. 14. Stenolophus 

 exiguus of Dejean, discovered in England by Mr. Samuel Stevens, 

 who captured a few specimens on Bury Hill, near Arundel : a single 

 specimen was taken by Mr. Wollaston in the Isle of Wight, and Mr. 

 Dawson himself subsequently took a series of the insect on the sands 

 at Pegwell Bay, near Ramsgate, in February, 1849. 15. Bradycellus 

 cognatus of Gyllenhall, a mountain species, which appears to occur 

 only on the high moors of Wales, Yorkshire and Scotland. 16. Bem- 

 bidium fluviatile of Dejean, taken by Mr. Hadfield, of Newark, on 

 the banks of the Trent at Kelham. 17. Bembidium stomoides of 

 Dejean, captured by Mr. Bold, of Newcastle, on a sandy bank by the 

 Irthing. 18. Bembidium obliquum of Sturm, found also by Mr. Bold, 

 at Gosforth, in Cumberland. 19. Bembidium Schuppelii of Dejean, 

 found by Messrs. Bold, Murray and Wailes, on the banks of the 

 Irthing. 20. Bembidium Doris of Panzer, an insect of rare occurrence 

 in the salt-marshes of England. And lastly — 21. Bembidium callosum 

 of Kuster, found by Mr. Steuart on Woking Common. I believe the 

 whole of these twenty-one insects to be perfectly distinct as species, 

 certainly all of them are new as British. It would have been a labour 

 of love with me to have abridged the minutely accurate characters 

 which Mr. Dawson has drawn up for each of them, but I think that 

 every British Coleopterist is bound to possess himself of this valuable 

 volume. 



In next calling your attention to Mr. Stain ton's work on the 

 British Tineadae,* it seems necessary to glance at the previous closet- 

 history of these minims of their tribe : this closet-history commences 

 in 1829 with the publication of the fourth Part of Haworth's * Lepi- 

 doptera Britannica,' a monograph the most complete, the most learned, 

 the most useful, ever published on the Entomology of Britain, and 



* * Insecta Britannica.' Lepidoptera : Tineina. By H. T. Stainton. 8vo. Plates. 

 London: Lovell Reeve. 1854. Price 25s. 



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