700 Insects. 



Tachyeryes saliceti. Osiers, abundant. Adimonia halensis. Wild sage in Septem- 



Trox sabulosus. Rabbit-skins, Bradgate- ber, very abundant. 



park. Melasoma cenea. May and June, herbage, 



Polydrusus undatus. Hazel-leaves, com. Sheet Hedges wood. 



Tanymecm palliatus. Thistles. Bryaxis Juncorum. Moss. 



Pogonocherus pilosus. Flying about oaks. Atameles paradoxus. Nests of Formica 

 Agaphantia Cardui. Sywell-wood, North- flava, Sheet Hedges wood. 



amptonshire, on thistles. Staphylinus brunnipes. Sandy banks, Sep- 



Saperda populnea. One aspen, Blake tember. 



Hays wood, plentiful, May to July. Xantholinus tricolor. Moss on ants' nests. 



Zeugophora subspinosa. Hazels, Sheet Lalhrobium multipunctatum. Rocky hills. 



Hedges wood. Coccinella oblongo-guttata. Fir-plantations 



Spharoderma orbiculatum. Moss in winter globosa. Moss. 



The present season has been nothing like so prolific as the last in insect life, especially 

 in the spring. Onthophagus coenobita, Phaedon Raphani, several Donacise and Cur- 

 culionidae, which used to occur in great profusion in certain localities, have this year 

 scarcely appeared at all. Colymbetes angustior occurs all the year round in Brad- 

 gate park in the situation mentioned, I find it congregated in numbers under stones, 

 in half-dry water-courses, in company with a few of C. vitreus and paludosus. Leis- 

 tus fulvibarbis and rufescens are both abundant in Sheet Hedges wood, but differ in 

 their habits, the one preferring stony situations, and the other coursing about at the 

 roots of thick herbage. I have only taken one of Trimorphus confinis. Athoiis sub- 

 fuscus, for which Stephens only mentions one locality, " the New Forest," is found 

 very abundantly, flying over the hazels in the soft, grassy glades of Lea wood; the 

 common A. haemorrhoidalis, which is more a hedge-bank insect, did not accompany it, 

 and A. vittatus was common in the damper parts, with Campylus linearis, but not fly- 

 ing. Trox sabulosus I have taken three times under rabbit-skins on the scorched heathy 

 hills of Bradgate-park, where also Otiorhynchus Ligustici, and many other insects of 

 similar habitat, have occurred. Sallows and birches in woods are fertile trees for the 

 entomologist. Some scores of different species may be taken from one sallow in a fa- 

 vourable situation, on the mild close days about the beginning of June. Hylobius 

 Abietis has occurred this season in great profusion. — Henry Walter Bates ; Leicester, 

 August, 1844. 



Note on the capture of Coleopterous Insects by night. I would strongly urge collec- 

 tors of Coleoptera to search more by night than they have probably hitherto done, as I 

 am convinced, from the great success I met with myself last season, there are a great 

 many rarities to be found at that time, which are not to be obtained in the day. It is 

 a well known fact, that most of the Geodephaga are nocturnal ramblers, hiding them- 

 selves under stones &c. in the day-time ; but it is not, I believe, generally known that 

 at least two thirds of the British Curculionidae have the same habit, to which I can 

 bear testimony. I found it almost useless, in the hot months of July and August last 

 year, to search after Coleoptera in the day-time. The plan I generally followed was 

 to ramble out into the fields and woods as soon as it was getting dusk, and instead of 

 examining my net, as I should have done in the day-time, throw all the contents into 

 a large bag, and examine it the next morning; and I have always been well reward- 

 ed, both in quantity and quality. I have frequently swept till as late as 11 o'clock at 

 night.— Samuel Stevens ; 38, King St., Covent Garden. 



