476 Insects. 



The most plentiful species were as follows : — Aphodius fossor, Hister carbonarius, 

 Phoedon marginella, aucta, Polygoni, Chrysomela Staphyleea, Clivina fossor, Pcecilus 

 cupreus, Hypolithus riparius, Notaris acridulus. The rarer species were : — Clivina 

 collaris, Dysehirius minimus (Curt.), Patrobus rufipes, Blemus micros, unifasciatus, 

 Epaphius Secalis, Hydroclius elongatus, brevis, Balaninus Brassicae, glandium, Otio- 

 rhynchus singularis. — ./. Plant ; Leicester, January 17, 1844. 



Note on Epaphius Secalis. It is rather a curious fact, but this sea-coast Geodepha- 

 gon is a well known native of the neighbourhood of Leicester. I should think I have 

 seen some scores of specimens, all obtained from the damp meadows of the Soar, and 

 particularly during the floods of last summer. Our individuals are generally pale tes- 

 taceous, now and then a little dusky towards the head and tail, but in the marginal ob- 

 literation of the striae and the proportions of the segments of the body, they do not dif- 

 fer from the descriptions in Stephens's works. — Henry Walter Bates ; Leicester, Janu- 

 ary 6, 1 844. 



Note on Ocys melanocephalus. The Ocys is the most extraordinary runner in the 

 whole circle of the Carabides. Like the typical Dromii, it is somewhat arboreal in its 

 nature, and is most generally met with in its hibernations, where we frequently take it, 

 but never in any numbers. In these two habits we may suppose it affording a good 

 fact in support of the theory of representation, where its style of colouring, in ad- 

 dition to the other peculiarities, may place it in the same line with Dromius agilis and 

 its Brachinideous congeners. — Id. 



Note on the capture of Clytus 4-punctatus fyc. near Bristol. It may be interesting 

 to the readers of the ' The Zoologist ' to know that a specimen of Clytus 4-punctatus 

 (Fab.) was, about two or three years ago, taken by a friend of mine at Baptist-mills, 

 near this city, and by him kindly presented to me. I may also mention that I have 

 reared Callidium variabile (Lin.), but it is singular that only one has the elytra of the 

 usual colour (violet), the others being wholly testaceous. In January last I took three 

 specimens of Licinus depressus (Ph.) under a stone on Leigh-down, near this city, 

 which I believe is quite a new locality for this insect. — Stephen Barton; Upper Maud- 

 lin Street, Bristol, January 8, 1844. 



Description of Toxotus rugipennis, a new Beetle belonging to the Stirps Macrocera, 

 and the Order Ceramby cites. The head is black, considerably elongated towards the 

 mouth, and is not swollen behind the eyes: the antenna? are less than half the length 

 of the body, and are of uniform thickness throughout ; the fifth is the longest joint, 

 and the second, as usual, the shortest; their colour is dark, with the basal portion of 

 all the joints, from the first to the eighth inclusive, pale testaceous : the prothorax is 

 scarcely longer than broad, its anterior margin is nearly straight, its posterior margin 

 sinuous, on each side is a blunt tubercular tooth rather before the middle, its colour is 

 black, and the dorsal surface is rough, like shagreen : the elytra are broad and short, 

 their extremities are slightly truncate, their colour is nearly black, with a central, trans- 

 verse, cream-coloured band on each, this band reaches neither the sutural nor costal 

 margin, it is somewhat crescent-shaped, the convexity facing the base of each elytron, 

 their surface is most singularly uneven, the deep wide depressions leaving only a kind 

 of raised net-work, and the depressions themselves being rough, like shagreen : the 

 under side of the body is black, the legs and the apical joints of the abdomen pitchy 

 red ; both the body and legs are clothed with short silvery hairs. Length of the lar- 

 gest specimen '7 inch, breadth '275 inch. The form of this insect seems to fix its sta- 

 tion between Toxotes and Rhagium, but certainly nearer to the former than the latter. 



