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Carabus intrieatus in Devonshire. — I had the pleasure of taking a specimen of this 

 rare beetle on the 9th of the present month. T had been to the confines of Dartmoor, 

 with a friend, collecting ferns; and on returning home through a wood I saw this 

 beautiful insect trying to get through the grass on the edge of the pathway. One of 

 the abdominal segments was severed, which lessened its locomotive power, almost de- 

 priving it of the power of moving; hence the capture. I have since hunted in the 

 same place, but without success. — /. J. Reading ; Plymouth, September 23, 1856. 



Note on Localities for Agabus brunneus and Hydroporus opatrinus. — Two of our 

 rarest water-beetles are Agabus brunneus, Fab., and Hydroporus opatrinus, Germ.; 

 probably only the rarest because their habits are peculiar or at present unknown. 

 Like Hydroporus Scalesianus, they will ere long be in all our cabinets. I took both 

 these species in Spain, in shallow, half-dried-up mountain streams, during the month 

 of June last; brunneus was buried in thick masses of green filmy matter that here and 

 there lay at the edges of the water; opatrinus more sparingly under stones and 

 among gravel at the bottom of little pools. In looking for it I found the easiest 

 mode, when practicable, to turn off the water into another channel, and then patiently 

 watch and examine the wet stones and shingle ; in a few minutes several species make 

 their appearance, among them (sometimes among gravel three or four inches from the 

 surface) is conspicuous the grand black opatrinus. I captured a few specimens in 

 larger pools, by violently raking up the gravel at the bottom to the depth of several 

 inches, and (when everything was in wild confusion and the water the colour of coffee) 

 dipping with the net quickly and forcibly; generally, however, in collecting in such 

 localities a net is of little service. Which of our coleopterists will this autumn test, 

 as regards the existence there of these insects, the little rivulets of our British hills 

 and mountains ? This month, the commencement of autumn, is just the proper sea- 

 son ; June, in the southern districts of Spain, is too late for summer collecting, and 

 represents our September or October. Both species have occurred in England, and 

 may again be found. I know of many streamlets in Wales and Scotland fulfilling all 

 the conditions of these beautiful streamlets of Andalusia, their watercourse unsheltered 

 by trees or brushwood, too high up in the mountains and too precipitous for trout, 

 their beds of shingle interspersed with rocks, moss-grown, Hydraena-peopled, over 

 which the tiny stream trickles into its miniature pool below. I should follow these 

 rivulets far up into the hills, till the pools formed by them were no bigger than a 

 basin ; and there, or I am much mistaken, I should discover these long-lost species. — 

 Hamlet Clark ; Harmston Vicarage, September, 1 856. 



Proceedings of Societies. 

 Entomological Society. 

 September 1, 1856.— W. W. Saunders, Esq., President, in the chair. 



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The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be given to the 

 donors: — 'The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England,' Vol. xvii. 



