Insects. 5843 



country all mess together in one large room, and our usual fare is 

 white fish, carebon venison, buffalo tongues, wild ducks and geese, 

 plover, &c, besides which we have eaten one beaver, and to-morrow 

 shall make a sturgeon look foolish T have no doubt. 



I ought to add that the ' Letters of Rusticus T have afforded me 

 much amusement as well as instruction during my passage across the 

 Atlantic. 



"To the West" is the cry. 



T. W. Blakiston. 



A Systematic List of Coleoptera found in the Vicinity of Alver stoke, 

 South Hants. By Arthur Adams, Esq., F.L.S., Surgeon of 

 H.M. Surveying Ship ' Actaeon ; ' and William Balfour 

 Baikie, M.D., F.R.G.S. 



(Continued from page 5821). 



RHYNCOPHORA. 

 1. Fam. Bruchid.e, Leach. 



1. Bruchus, Geoff., Steph. 



B. Cisti, Fair., Walt. B. canus, B. tibialis, B. debilis, Steph. 

 Abundant on broom. 



2. Brachytarsus, Sclwnh., Steph. 



B. scabrosus, Fabr., Steph., Walt. A specimen captured at Haslar 

 by Mr. C. Barron. 



2. Fam. Attelabim, Westw. 



1. Sub-fam. Rhynchinince. 



1. Rhynchites, Herbst, Steph. 



R. Betulae, Linn., Walt. Deporaus Betulae, Leach, Steph. Local 

 and not abundant; at Grange, on birches when in full flower. 



R. megacephalus, Germ., Walt, R. laevicollis, R. cyaneopennis, 

 Steph. Rather scarce. 



R. aequatus, Linn., Steph., Walt. On flowers of the hawthorn. 



R. ceneovirens, Marsh., Steph., Wall. Hedges, by beating; 

 scarce. 



