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Insects, 



Cerylon histeroides and picipes. Under 

 bark of horn-beam in similar situa- 

 tions to the above, November and 

 December. 



Lyctus oblongus. In dead hornbeam. 



Rhyzophagus ferrugineus and bipustula- 

 tus. Abundant under bark of dead 

 hornbeam, October to December. 



Anthophilus sulcatus. In dung, May. 



Dendrophilus punctatus. Under bark of 

 whitethorn in May. 



Cucujus dermestoides. Beneath the bark 

 of recently felled oaks, near where 

 the separation has taken place. I 

 never found them on standing trees 

 but once, and then only a solitary 

 specimen on the trunk of a horn- 

 beam, where a limb had been lopped 

 off. Pretty common in May; I have 

 taken thirty or forty in one day. 



Dorcus parallelopipedus. October, in rot- 

 ten hornbeam. 



Lucanus Cervus. June. 



Onthophagus nutans. Common in dung. 



Elater ephippium. One specimen beaten 

 from the oak in June. 



Pomonae. June. 



praeustus. Oaks in June. 



Ctenicerus sanguinicollis. Oak, June. 

 Campylus linearis. Whitethorn, May 



and June. 

 Opilus mollis. April. 

 Thanasimus formicarius. June. 

 — J. S. Norman ; Rider St., New North Road, October 26, 1843. 



Description of Anchomenus picticornis, a new Beetle belonging to the stirps Nematoce- 

 ra, and the natural order Carabites. General colour dark brown, with the palpi and the 

 margins of the prothorax and elytra paler, the basal and second joints of the antennae 

 are pitchy red, the third is of the same colour at both its extremities, but nearly black 

 in the middle, the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh joints are black, and the remaining 

 four white. There are two deep longitudinal furrows on the anterior part of the head, 

 and a deep, short and somewhat lunulate furrow on the prothorax immediately behind 

 the head : each elytron has eight very distinct striae, besides an abbreviated one at the 

 base, between the first and second, the exterior furrow is interrupted by many large ir- 

 regular coarse punctures. This little beetle is -3 inch in length, and -125 in. in breadth, 

 and closely resembles in size and appearance the well known Anchomenus albipes of 

 this country. It was found by Mr. E. Doubleday, near St. John's Bluff, in East Flo- 

 rida, and the specimen, which is unique, is now in the cabinet of the British Museum. 

 — Edward Newman; Hanover St., Peckham, November, 1843. 



Ptinus imperialis and Lichenum. White- 

 thorn, May. 



Cis Boleti. Abundant in Boleti, October 

 to July. 



Hylesinus crenatus. Whitethorn, May. 



Fraxini. Ash, May. 



Gymnaetron Beccabungae. 

 Leiosoma ovatula. Rank herbage. 

 Platyrhinus latirostris. Trunks of oaks, 



two specimens. 

 Pogonocherus pilosus. Whitethorn, June 



to October. 

 Leiopus nebulosus. Ditto, May and June. 

 Tetrops praeusta. Ditto, June. 

 Callidium violaceum. Old oak, July. 



variabile. June. 



• Alni. Whitethorn. 



Clytus arcuatus. On the trunks of felled 

 trees in the sun. The larva feeds in 

 the trunks of pollard oaks. July, 

 common. 



Rhagium bifasciatum. Whitethorn, July, 

 common. 



Leptura revestita. Beaten from the oak in 

 June. 



scutellata. Trunks of trees in the 



sunshine, July and August, comn. 



nigra. On flowers, June & July. 



Zeugophora subspinosa. June to Sep- 

 tember. 



Endomycus coccineus. In rotten stumps 

 of hornbeam, September & October. 



