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horn, the puncturing and colour being precisely the same id both. Length If line. — 

 Edward Parjitt ; 4, Weirjield Place, St. Leonard's, Exeter, November 8, 1856. 



Capture of Polystichus fasciolatus, fyc, near Eastbourne, Sussex. — In August last, 

 whilst searching for Coleoptera near Eastbourne, I had the good fortune to find the 

 rare and apparently very local Polystichus fasciolatus beneath a heap of chalk stones 

 near the sea. Stephens records its capture in a similar situation on the Suffolk coast 

 some twenty-eight years ago. I saw three ; the first I most unfortunately crushed, in 

 my eagerness to catch it ; the next was secured, and is now in the cabinet of a London 

 friend ; the third made its escape beneath the stones and debris, and, although 

 I searched the spot most diligently, I saw no more of them. Since then I have 

 visited the locality and turned over the same heap of stones on two several occasions, 

 but without any success. Harpalus pubescens was abundant in this locality, vln 

 addition to the above record, perhaps the following notice of a few captures, made 

 during the past season in the neighbourhood of Lewes, will be acceptable, as it gives a 

 new locality for the species, namely : — 



Tarus axillaris, Licinus depressus, Lebia chlorocephala. Beneath chalk stones on 

 the Lewes Downs in April, and again in September. Not scarce. 

 Stomis pumicatus. Occasionally in an old chalk-pit. 



Anchomenus livens. At sugar placed on trees for Noctuae, by a young friend, 

 near the town, in September. Five specimens. 



Stenolophus Skrimshiranus. By the side of a ditch, in profusion, near the town, in 

 April. 



Ochthebius exaratus, O. asratus. In the same ditch, in April, among aquatic plants. 

 Colymbetes conspersus. In a brackish pool near Newhaven, in August. 

 Philonthus corvinus, Erich. From moss near Newhaven. 



Bembidium 5-striatum. Two specimens, Winterbourne, near Lewes. — W. C. 

 Umvin ; St. Anns, Lewes, December 7, 1856. 



Intricatus to be exhibited alive. — I propose sending up four living specimens of 

 Carabus intricatus for exhibition at the next meeting of the Entomological Society: 

 they were taken by myself under moss, in a wood in the neighbourhood of Plymouth, 

 within the last month. This is one of those British insects captured by that cele- 

 brated naturalist Dr. Leach, the authenticity of which has been doubted, but why his 

 word was not taken I am at a loss to know. Who has looked after this species in 

 earnest? The answer is that no one has done so up to the present time. Collectors 

 have paid flying visits of one or two days to this locality without finding it, but such 

 visits without luck do not prove that certain things are not to be found in certain 

 places. — J. J. Beading ; 42, Gibbons Street, Plymouth, December 13, 1856. 



Captures of Hydradephaga at York. — I send you the following list of Hydra- 

 dephaga taken by me in Askhara Bog, near York, during the present year. I ought 

 to say that nearly all the insects were taken within a very small space of ground in the 

 part more properly called Dringhouses Bog, and that the ponds which they frequent 

 are apparently very old brick-pits. Of course I have omitted those species which are 

 found everywhere. 



Hydaticus transversalis. Very sparingly, and only in one spot, in August and 

 September. 



Colymbetes exoletus. Frequent. 



„ Grapii. Frequent. 



Ilybius ater. Common. 



