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one day Notiophilus rufipes and other good Geodephaga, with many 

 Brachelytra, including eleven species of Stenus, a fine series of 

 Plancus, &c. The beautiful Rhynchites cupreus is abundant on the 

 fruit of the mountain ash. 



John A. Power. 

 Burton Crescent, 

 June 13, 1856. 



Capture of a Coleopterous Genus neiu to the British Fauna. — Whilst on a visit, 

 during the last week in April, to Mr. Darwin, at Down, near Bromley, I had the good 

 fortune to meet with a solitary specimen of the Staphylinideous genus Euryusa, which 

 has not hitherto been recorded as British. Mr. Janson is of opinion that it is referrible 

 to the E. acuminata, described by Maerkel in the * Ent. Zeitung' in 1842, though it 

 is of a somewhat paler hue (the result perhaps of immaturity) than that species as in- 

 dicated in the diagnosis. Like so many of the Aleocharini, it seems to be an attend- 

 ant upon ants ; and it was from beneath a stone, overtopping a colony of the Formica 

 fusca, that my example was taken. The chalky slopes in that immediate vicinity 

 would appear to be rich in Coleoptera; for, although nominally not collecting at the 

 time, I noticed several species which I do not often observe elsewhere: I may mention, 

 inter alia, Coprophilus striatulus; and from beneath a single flint, resting upon a nest 

 of the common brown ant, I captured no less than nine specimens of the Claviger 

 foveolatus. — T. Vernon Wollaston ; 10, Hereford Street, Park Lane, June, 5, 1856. 



Captures of Cryptocephalus and Agrilus biguttatus. — This summer has already 

 become remarkable by the number of rare Coleoptera taken, and amongst these Cryp- 

 tocephalus nitens holds the most distinguished place. Of this excessively rare species 

 I believe that more than four hundred examples have been taken, and most of them 

 have been beaten off sallows at Cobham in Kent. Dr. Power, perhaps induced by the 

 capture of a single specimen last year, appears to have led the van, and Mr. Baly, Mr. 

 Adams, Mr. Syme, &c, have shared in the labour and the spoil. C. Coryli has 

 occurred also in some abundance in the same locality, and has also been taken by beat- 

 ing birch trees at Wickham both by Mr. Douglas and Mr. Ingall. A few specimens 

 of C. lineola have occurred at Cobham and Darenth: it has been beaten from 

 birch, whitethorn, and Clematis Vitalba, and has been swept off grass. Agrilus 

 biguttatus has been beaten at Darenth by Mr. Miller and Mr. Syme. — Edward 

 Newman. 



Capture of Hydroporus Scalesianus near York. — This pretty little insect, the H. 

 pygmaeus of Sturm and Aube, hitherto known as British by a single specimen in the 

 cabinet of the late Mr. Stephens, which was said to have been taken by Mr. Scales 

 near Swaffham, in Norfolk, has been taken in some abundance near York, by the Kev. 

 William Hey, to whose great kindness I am indebted for a supply of specimens. 

 Directly I saw the insect I felt convinced that it was our long-lost Scalesianus, but 

 not trusting to my own judgment I sent it forthwith to Dr. Power, the referee from 

 whose decision in such cases there is no appeal, and he at once confirmed my view of 



