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of Yorkshire, in the winter of 1821, after haunting the neighbourhood 

 some time : it is now in the collection of Mr. A. Strickland (the 

 brother of the Yorkshire M.P.) who gave me the account: it is the 

 only authenticated British specimen. The same gentleman has a 

 specimen of the black stork, shot last spring in Lincolnshire. 



" I make no apology for giving you all these isolated instances, as 

 I know you are as fond as myself of going into the detail of natural 

 history. 



" Will you tell Mr. Dennis John that the very large water beetle 

 which he may perhaps remember giving me proved to be the Cybister 

 Roselii, an insect of which 1 believe there is only a single authenti- 

 cated British specimen, besides the one he gave me ; and as he told 

 me that he had several times seen them in the ditches of the Marazion 

 marshes, he would confer a great benefit on Science by securing them 

 wherever he meets with them, taking great care to keep the legs, an- 

 tennae, &c, entirely uninjured. I took several very good insects in 

 Ireland ; but the collection I made in the neighbourhood of Penzance, 

 which I sent to an excellent entomologist for the purpose of having 

 the insects named, turned out to contain nine entirely new species of 

 Coleoptera, besides four others new to Britain, and a great many very 

 rare ones : one of the Carabideous beetles will form a new genus ; and 

 a beautiful Cassida, which I took in the hedge behind Trenear, is an 

 entirely new insect. If you see Mr. Henry Hocken, of Phillack, will 

 you tell him that I shall feel greatly obliged if he will write me an 

 account of any observations or rare species in Entomology that may 

 at any time fall under his eye in Cornwall, as I and several other 

 lovers of Entomology are endeavouring to establish a sort of entomo- 

 logical correspondence in different parts of the country, for the pur- 

 pose of interchanging our remarks, and, where practicable, our 

 specimens. I have just finished arranging afresh all my Coleoptera, 

 of which 1 have more than 600 British species. 



" Any remarks on any subject in Zoology which you may be dis- 

 posed to favour me with T shall be very glad to receive, if you have 

 any inclination to correspond on the subject. 



" Believe me very truly yours, 



" F. Holme." 



" Meysey Hampton, Fairford, Gloucestershire, 

 "January 11, 1834. 

 " Dear Sir, — I intend to make this letter a long one, but I am 

 afraid that 1 shall repeat several of the detached scraps which I gave 





