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are pursued only between dinner and tea, so that you may imagine they do not 
proceed very rapidly. I am now engaged in making out the synonyms of 
Grayenhorst, which I find tedious enough. To save trouble, I mark in the 
margin of his family of Staphylinus the number of puncta in the thoracic series 
thus :. I find this save some trouble, and recommend it to you. . . [have 
the pleasure to tell you that I found, after you Jeft me, the remains of Mordella 
Jasciata, 8. Bi, which you may recollect I looked for in vain, and have put all 
together very adroitly.”.... [A letter, dated July 7, of ten pages, contained 
observations on the 214 insects sent in the box alluded to above. | 
“Holme [Norfolk], July 31, 1807. 
“My dear Sir, — Being so very near you as to discern, by the help of & 
glass, the Humber’s mouth, it will not be so well if I do not speak a few words 
to you, and give you some account of what I have been doing since I left my 
own door.” [After a description of his journey and of Holme, and of twelve 
insects he had taken, the letter continues: ]—* But the pride and joy of my dis- 
coveries here is a new Apion, which I have found in tolerable numbers upon 
Statice Limonium. It is by far the most splendid and beautiful, and I think 
also the largest species of the genus that I yet am acquainted with, I have 
already taken fifty specimens, and shall endeavour to get more. I call it Apion 
Limonii, and it will form the concluding species of my paper ; and so I may 
well say, Finis coronat opus.” [Then follows a description and reference to a 
coloured figure on the blank page of the letter.] “The figure is tolerably cor- 
rect, though I know not how to give the metallic hues of the original. 
“T have no further communication now to make, except that we made some 
inquiry whether there were any vessel going from this neighbourhood to Hull; 
but we could not hear of any. If we had met with one with fair accommodation, 
T don’t know whether we should not ‘have paid you a flying visit, » o0« 
“Barham, Aug. 31, 1807. 
“ My dear Friend,—At length I have gone through all the contents of your 
box, and that of Messrs. Watson and Simpson.” . . . . [Then follow two 
pages of descriptions of the new Stapliylinide sent him.] 
“In my last I detailed to you many of my captures at Holme, ending with 
what I termed the pride and joy of my discoveries, Apion Limonii; but since 
that capture I have taken two insects in the same village, which are still more 
valuable: they are both of the Staphylinide. One of these is a Tachinus, of 
which I took a pair in putrid wood. Its peculiarity consists in its antenna, 
which are uncommonly slender, with a knob at the end of each joint, and yer- 
ticils of hairs, thus, as in fig. 1. [Here follow two pencil sketches.] No. 2 
represents the head and thorax of an Oxytelus, related to O. morsitans and 
cornutus, but with four long horns upon the head, the two anterior arising from 
the base of the maxille and protruded before the head. It is, I think, a more 
curious insect than even fricornis, of which, by the bye, I have also at last gota 
specimen: I took it one morning upon Mrs. Kirby’s chemisette, as the ladies 
denominate their neck-handkerchiefs, as she was walking before breakfast in 
Dr. Sutton’s garden. In vain I laid traps of white linen for it; I could not 
meet with a second, although I also placed the same attraction in the same 
place. I found at Holme, and in a neighbouring village, an abundant supply 
of Apion nigritarse upon the dock, the hazel, the hawthorn, the elm, &c.: 80 
farewell my habitat, which seemed so remarkably confirmed by your taking it 
upon the same tree in the north. 
© A remarkable event befell me last week. I had been much afflicted in the 
course of the week by the ear-ache (a disorder which, if you never knew, 
hope you never will, and which, by the bye, must apologise for any mistakes 
