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powdered Bupreslis is caught in the same manner. Having reached 

 the usual limits of my walk in this direction, I turn back and am soon 

 rewarded by what appears a Colliuris sitting on a leaf, but which is 

 discovered, on capturing it, to be of the equally acceptable Longicorn 

 genus Sclethrus : a little further and a true Colliuris is caught. These 

 insects I have named, from their elegant form, lady-beetles, English 

 names being necessary for the use of my boy Charley, who is now a 

 rather expert collector. During the rest of the walk back, the principal 

 insects I get are two velvety Elaters crawling on the logs, and two or 

 three curious Heteromera in the same situation. Returning by the 

 Chinamen's houses, I find, at an odoriferous puddle, the fine Papilio 

 Iswara, which I capture, as well as a P. Evemon and P. Sarpedon. I 

 then walk to the other clearing, where, among the fallen timber and 

 branches, I get several small Buprestidae ; numbers of the handsome 

 red Eurycephalus maxillosus are here constantly flying about and 

 crawling on the timber. On one tree I find running about with ants, 

 which they much resemble, the curious little short-elytra' d Longicorns, 

 Hesthesis sp. Here also, I get two or three pretty species of Clytus f 

 and a Callichroma. Between whiles I have picked up a few flies, 

 wasps and bugs, and have got tolerably filled bottles. Returning 

 home, I find Charley has also had a fair day. We empty our bottles 

 into boiling water, and on pinning and setting our captures, find we 

 have got between us 94 beetles, 51 different species, 23 of which are 

 new to my collection : I have 5 new Longicorns, 2 new Buprestida?, 

 and 5 new Curculionidae. I have been out five hours, and consider 

 this a very good day's work. It will be seen that a far larger number 

 of insects can be collected in a day in England, but perhaps hardly 

 such a large proportion of species. 



A. R. Wallace. 



Occurrence of the Honey Buzzard (Falco apivorus) near Truro. — A specimen of 

 the honey buzzard was shot last week at Carclew, the residence of Sir Charles Lemon; 

 and it appears that this is the second instance of its occurrence in the same locality, 

 and the only two recorded instances of its appearance in this county. The specimen 

 that was obtained some years since, and which I was previously unaware of, I had an 

 opportunity of cursorily inspecting yesterday at the Royal Institution's Museum at 

 Truro ; and it appeared to have a greater preponderance of brown both on the upper 

 and lower plumage than the one recently killed. The under parts are rufous-brown, 

 with a few narrow, transverse bars of white, about six in number, at some distance 



