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however, on the continent, and is the Trechus atvatus of Dejean's work. A single 

 specimen was taken by Mr. Wollaston in the Isle of Wight during a visit, which he 

 paid me, in the Spring of 1846. 



During the whole of April I was prevented, through indisposition and other causes 

 from collecting, but at the beginning of May I again found newly-born specimens of 

 Lixus bicolor, on the sand-hills near Deal ; thus ascertaining satisfactorily that the 

 species is double brooded ; as also are Hypera fasciculata and Limobius mixtus, its 

 companions. I also captured a single specimen of Ceutorhynchus hirtulus, Germ. ; a 

 few examples of which were taken last autumn in the same locality, by Mr. Walton, 

 the Rev. Hamlet Clark, and myself, for the first time in this country, and on the plant, 

 whose name it bears, I again took Apion Sedi, Germ, which in September last, I had 

 the pleasure of annexing to the list of our indigenous species ? And here let me correct 

 an error in my former communication on the Deal insects : I inserted erroneously 

 the name of Apion minimum or velox ; it was done without sufficient examination at 

 the time, but when I was about to place the insect in my cabinet, I at once perceived 

 the species to be distinct and entirely unknown to me, and upon sending it to 

 Mr. Walton as something new, with (I believe) a suggestion that Sedi would be an 

 appropriate name, I was pleased to learn that I had discovered the veritable Apion 

 Sedi of Germar, of the existence of which species I had previously been unaware. In 

 the same notice I mentioned the capture of a new Nedyus, which would probably be 

 described by Mr. Walton, under the name of Crux; this insect, however, though also 

 new to Britain, proves to be Ceutorhynchus Aubii, Schon. I should imagine that 

 upon sandy heaths, where the dwarf Sedum grows, this Apion may be found, where 

 patches of the plant exist without the intermixture of grass, otherwise the soil will 

 prove to be of too compact a nature to allow these little creatures to penetrate and 

 conceal themselves. In such spots, Sarrotrium muticum occurs in profusion : one day 

 last September I took upwards of one hundred examples in less than an hour, and 

 might have taken any number, nor were they less abundant (though I did not molest 

 them), this spring, but it was amongst these that I discovered Apion Sedi, hitherto only 

 sparingly, having had no opportunity of further search for it. It is a small species, 

 somewhat allied to A. humile. 



On the 8th of May I went to Dover in search of Plinthus caliginosus ; but though 

 I succeeded in procuring about three dozen, the weather was in general so wet, with 

 cold east wind, during the week or more that I was there, that I was unable to procure 

 anything else": and I proceeded to Tunbride Wells. Here I have made numerous 

 captures, although few of them perhaps of any importance ; among these are : — Gym- 

 naetron veronicae, rostellum, and melanarius, Ger. (intaminata, Ste), Orobitis cyanea, 

 Caeliodes Quercus, ruber and rubicundus, Sibinia potentillee, Knock., Balaninus 

 turbatus, Brachytarsus scabratus, Apion ebeninum, Hookeri, &c. 



Having ascertained, as I before observed, that Lixus bicolor is double brooded, I 

 suspected that (judging from analogy) its allied species Lixus angustatus would be 

 also, and accordingly determined to go and search for it, though it had previously 

 been taken in autumn. This fine species was found by Mr. Walton last September, 

 near Hastings, on a common species of upright thistle (Cnicus palustris), very abundant 

 in meadows and woods, and which grows about the slopes below the Lovers seat, the 

 original locality recorded by Mr. Curtis on the authority of Mr. Pickering, who took 

 it there some years ago. The spot where it is found is part of a very extensive land- 

 slip, known by the name of Coverst or Govers, as it is generally spelt, palpable cor- 



