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Four specimens, taken in Canada by Mr. Barnstone, are in the cabinet of the British 

 Museum. — Edward Neivman ; Peck ham, January, 1844. 



Description of Callidium rubeocolle, a new Beetle belonging to the Stirps Macrocera 

 and the Order Cerambycites. The upper or dorsal surface of the prothorax is of a dull 

 red colour, and every other part of an intense black, and more or less clothed with short 

 black hairs, which are more particularly observable on the antennae and legs. The 

 prothorax and elytra are completely covered with large irregular confluent punctures, 

 these punctures are largest about the base of the latter, and gradually decrease in size 

 towards the apex : the femora are incrassated externally : the under side of the abdo- 

 men is punctured and tomentose. Its length is '65 inch and its breadth *225 inch. A 

 single specimen, found by Mr. Lea at Cincinnati and sent to Mr. E. Doubleday, is 

 now in the cabinet of the British Museum. — Id. 



Captures of Coleoptera in Gloucestershire, in December, 1843. The following is a 

 list of Coleoptera, which I captured during a residence on the Cotswold -hills in Glou- 

 cestershire in December last. The season being unusually mild, the greater part of 

 them I took in the utmost profusion. Farmington-grove, in the neighbourhood of 

 Northleach, is decidedly the best locality, where, by examining the moss at the roots 

 of trees, I met with tolerable success. And although it may be observed that several 

 of the following insects are common in most localities, yet having never seen them in 

 such abundance before, I think them worthy of being noticed. 

 Cercyon piceum Atomaria nigriventris Apion subsulcatum 



Trechus minutus Cis Boleti Salpingus planirostris 



Ptomophagus velox Ceutorhynchus sulcicollis Haltica atra 



Latridius lardarius Nedyus Erysimi Salicariae 



porcatus contractus Thyamis melanocephala 



Corticaria ferruginea Orchestes Calcar lurida 



Atomaria phseogaster Dorytomus affinis Macrocnema Spergulae 



atricapilla Sitona crinita Chilocorus renipustulatus 



carbonaria Apion vorax 



— T. V. Wollaston ; Jesus Coll. Cambridge, January, 1843. 



Note on the occurrence of the Locust in Yorkshire. Thinking that the following ac- 

 count of the appearance of the Asiatic locust in Yorkshire last year, may not be unin- 

 teresting to your readers, I have taken the liberty of troubling you with a letter on the 

 subject. Two of these insects were given to me on the 9th of September, 1842, by a 

 labourer at Holmpton (a village situated quite on the sea), who had found them in 

 an oat-field, where he, his wife and some others were harvesting. Not having seen 

 any of the species before, they were, at first, afraid of touching them ; but happening 

 to know that I was a collector, they were so kind as to catch them for me, which they 

 succeeded in doing. without injuring any part of their bodies. I placed them in a box 

 with a supply of green food, of which they partook very sparingly. On the 18th of Sep- 

 tember, finding one of them nearly dead, and that the other had eaten part of its wings, 

 I killed and preserved it : the other specimen lived until the 26th of September. Dur- 

 ing their confinement, T frequently amused myself by letting them out of the box and 

 seeing the distance they could spring, which, when I first had them, was certainly not 

 less that ten or twelve feet. A window, a little more that a yard from the ground, was 

 the point to which their aim was always directed, and they generally, if placed at a 

 distance, say five or six feet, sufficient to enable them to attain power enough, suc- 

 ceeded in getting into it. Three more specimens were taken in my neighbourhood, 



