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amptonshire, where it seems proof against all attempts at eradication. 

 I noticed during a visit last summer, the particular prevalence of 

 Agrypnus murinus along the pathways of wheat-fields ; it was parti- 

 cularly confined to such situations. 



The various modifications of the herbivorous habit in the Elateridae 

 admits of an interesting classification, at least such of the species as 

 have come under my notice. The Adrasti, Dolopii (El. marginatus), 

 and some Athoi (El. Quercus, El. vittatus), are most partial to the 

 rank herbage of thick woods. The Selatosomi (El. murinus, holoseri- 

 cus &c.) inhabit elevated, barren, stony places, where they occur in 

 spring, under chips of granite &c. The Cteniceri, Aplotarsi (El. tes- 

 taceus and rufipes) and Hypolithi (especially El. riparius) swarm in 

 damp meadows. The Elaters and Melanoti inhabit rotten wood. And 

 the Agrypni, Agriotes and Athoiis longicollis corn-fields ; the Agryp- 

 nus murinus, suspiciously rambling along the pathways on the sunny 

 days of June, and Athoiis longicollis occurring somewhat numerously 

 on the ears of barley towards the end of July. 



Henry Walter Bates. 

 Leicester, November 28, 1843. 



(To be continued). 



Note on the Capture of Curculionidce in Surrey. The following is a list of Curcu- 

 lionidte, selected from upwards of two thousand specimens, which I captured during 

 the months of July, August and September last, in the neighbourhood of Blechingly, 

 Surrey. The whole of them were taken within three miles of that place, one of the 

 finest districts for Coleoptera I have ever been fortunate enough to explore. Although 

 I have included many which are considered common in the south of England, I have 

 at the same time omitted the names of those species which are abundant everywhere ; 

 thinking it unnecessary to enumerate all which more or less occur in every locality. 

 Mecinus semicylindricus Sibinia primita 



Miarus Campanula? Orchestes Ilicis, Avellanae, Calcar, bifas- 



Cceliodes subrufus ciatus 



Ceutorhynchus Quercus, guttula, sulci- Tachyerges stigma 



collis Strophosomus limbatus 



Nedyus Urticae (Walton), Asperifoliarum, Sitona sulcifrons, humeralis, canina 

 Echii, Resedse, setiger (Scho.)* mar- Polydrusus cervinus 

 ginatus Magdalis atramentaria 



Pachyrhinus4-tuberculatus, notatus Rhinodes Pruni, Cerasi 



* I have a specimen of this rare insect, which I believe I captured in Surrey; but 

 as it is possible I may have taken it with Nedyus floralis in Lincolnshire, I think it 

 right here to state so. 



