506 LOCAL DISTRIBUTION OF INSECTs. 
is so consolidated by the constant foot, that they proba- _ 
bly find such situations spare them a world of labour, and 
therefore in their choice balance one inconvenience by 
another. 
Though the sea itself, I believe, produces no true zu- 
. sects, yet there are many that constantly or occasionally 
haunt its shores. On the sand-hills of the Norfolk coast 
I found Aigialia globosa and Cicindela hybrida. Ryn- 
chenus horridus inhabits thistles that grow near the sea. 
Under the Zostera and Fuci, (cast up both on its beach and 
the shores of estuaries, ) many peculiar species of Cercyon, 
several Aphodii, and numerous Staphylinide, may often 
be found. In this situation the rare and singular Oxyte- 
lus tricornis has been taken. At certain seasons of the 
year the beach and environs of the sea are covered by 
many species of Coccinella, which seem to bend their 
course thither from the inland country, as if they were 
about to emigrate? When the weather is fine and the 
tide begins to retire, at the line of its highest rise I have 
taken on the eastern coast a variety of insects, and 
amongst the rest Anomala Frischit. The inundations of 
rivers, except in the depth of winter, always bring a 
number of these little creatures, which float on the sur- 
face on bits of stick, weeds, &c.; and where they deposit 
these articles when the water begins to subside, you may 
generally reap a plentiful harvest of various kinds. 
You see, now, how varied is the scenery to which the 
diversion of the Entomologist introduces him; that he 
is never out of his way: whether on hill or in valley ; on 
upland or plain; on the heath or in the forest; on the 
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