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without Francillon’s be excepted. You sec I can’t willingly quit the subject of 
your visiting Barham. : ) : 
“ Darkness is coming on, and admonishes me to conclude this long epistle. 
“ Tam, Dear Sir, 
“ Your obliged and sincere friend and servant, 
“Wm. Kirsy.” 
“P. S.—Do you see Sowerby’s ‘ British Miscellany ?’ the Entomological 
part of it is now done by me. In No. 10. are figures of four very scarce British 
Coleoptera, viz. Staphylinus concolor, ‘E. B.’ (which is the true dilatatus of 
authors); Scarabeus pumilus 4 9 do.; Cerambyx fulminans, Fabr., and 
Carabus chrysostomos, ‘B. B.’ which is Drypta emarginata, Fabr. ‘ Syst. Eleuth;’ 
Cicindela emarginata, * Ent. Syst.’ and Panzer, &¢. The Lepidopterous part I 
have no concern in. There are several curious insects in the other numbers, 
and particularly my Stylops Melitta, with which my descriptions begin 
Mareh 11.” 
In June 1806, I accepted Mr. Kirby’s pressing invitation to visit him 
on my way from London to Hull, and spent ten delightful days with 
him at Barham. Five or six of these were devoted to a minute exa- 
minati«e. together of his Coleoptera, species by species, and I need not say 
what a fund of knowledge I derived from this inspection, accompanied 
by his comments, nor what a large accession my collection received 
from his very liberal contribution of his duplicates. Three or four days 
were given to an entomological excursion in his gig, to visit the shores of 
the Orwell, where I found many insects new to me. 
From the first letter I had from Mr. Kirby after my return to Hull 
copious extracts may be given, as they will be intelligible to entomo- 
logists without the letter to which it refers ; and also from another con- 
taining the details of a pedestrian tour to which it alludes, which may 
interest non-entomological readers. 
“ Barham, August 11. 1806. 
“Dear Sir,— Your kind letter was particularly acceptable, as I began to 
feel uneasy at not hearing from you, and was thinking of writing to you when 
it arrived. You will, perhaps, be disappointed at not receiving a folio sheet, 
but this is to go in a frank with other letters, and therefore I must content my- 
self with the usual size. To make amends I will write as small and close as 
possible. And now to answer the entomological part of your letter. My larger 
Curculio resinosus stands in my catalogue under the name of Colon. Fabricius 
had a Cure. Colon, but it is now a Rhynchenus. Did you take many of Hister 
pygmeus? I haye not an English specimen. 
“.....+.. Your frontispiece came safe: it lost not a joint either from antenne 
or tarsi. I am speaking of your Carabus Bruntoni, under which name I have 
entered it in my catalogue. I feel much concern at the unexpected death of 
this gentleman, and regret your loss and that of natural history...... Of Ca- 
rabus vivalis I should be glad of another specimen or two when you can spare 
them. ....> I rejoice to find you have taken more of Donacia Zostera. Gyl- 
lenhal made Zostere and Lquiseti as varieties, but not as sexual... ..- I haye 
compared Dytiscus Frater with D, elegans, and believe you are right. There is 
also a pair of lines of points on the disk of the elytra, yet under three glasses I 
sometimes think I discover these points on Frater, ..,...I have found no more 
specimens of Curculio globosus in our old favourite haunt, the chalk-pit. Ihave 
been there but twice since you left Barham. The first time I found a new 
