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CAPTURES OF COLEOPTERA AT BATH, 

 DURING THE RECENT SEASON. 



By ROBERT GILLO. 



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May 29th. — Returned home. On the following day examined the baits 

 and found several Necrophorus vespillo, two specimens of which on being cap- 

 tured made a singing noise ; I had never before heard a beetle make this 

 noise, and what astonished me most was its loudness. On examination, I 

 could clearly see how the insect caused it. June 1st. — Under stones on 

 Lansdown I took two Cgchrus rostratus, and in a ploughed field Amara 

 ovata was abundant under clods of earth. By sweeping hedges I took Xylo- 

 cleples bispinus freely, and several Priobium castaneum. Under dung, on the 

 Midford sand, I dug out three Copris lunaris, a species I had never before 

 noticed in this district although I had taken it freely at Bournemouth. 

 June 2nd. — Excursion to the Forest of Dean with the Bath Microscopical 

 Society. As I had not my collecting apparatus with me I could not do 

 much work, but I noticed under stones Pterostichus oblong opnnctatus in 

 plenty, as well as all the common Geodephaga. Cicindela campestris was 

 flying about, and Silp/ia quadripunctata, Bolopius marginatus and others I 

 knocked out of the oaks. I determined to go again better equipped. June 

 6th. — In Hampton Wood I took Treclms micros and Bembidinm brimnipes. 

 June 9th. — By sweeping in lanes I took Micropeplus porcatus, Polyopsia 

 pmusta, Grammoptera ruficornis, Rhinosimus viridicollis, Xylocleptes bispinus, 

 and Priobium eastaneum. Went again to the Forest of Dean. It was an 

 intensely hot day, and beating the hawthorn bushes still in bloom produced 

 the following results : Otiorhynchus picipes, Strophosomus coryli, Polydrosus 

 pterygomalis, Anaspis melanopa, &c, in profusion ; Bolopius marginatus, 

 Telephorus alpinus, T. pellucidus, T. nigricans, and T. lituratus, came down 

 also in some numbers ; the remaining captures being Silpha ^-punctata (4), 

 Liopus nebulosus (3), Cycliramus luteus (4), and Malachius bipustulatus, 

 Grammoptera ruficornis, Campylus linearis and Necrophorus mortuorum, one 

 specimen of each. These together with other things resulted in a very satis- 

 factory day's work. June 18th. — In a field on the Midford sand I found 

 Tachypus flavipes, Amara plebeia and P/iiont/ms varius in abundance. I 

 took one Lebia chlorocepJiala, and although I looked repeatedly for it I never 

 saw another. There is no broom growing anywhere within miles that I am 

 aware of. At this place I have frequently taken Notiopliilus biguttatus, palu- 

 stris, and substriatns, but never aquaticus, which I have only found as yet at 



