464 COLEOPTEROUS INSECTS FOUND IN 
pretty frequent in the first mentioned locality, but of late 
years it has become very scarce. According to Mr Curtis, 
the spines with which the anterior legs of many predacious 
insects are furnished^ exhibit a peculiar arrangement in this 
species, for the purpose of enabling it to secure more ef- 
fectually the object on which it feeds. 
Gen. Tachys. 
T. immunis, Steph. 
Not unfrequent in dry sandy places, in spring. 
Gen. Philochthus. 
P. biguttatus, Steph. 
Under stones in fields, occasional. Fields west of Cor- 
storph'ine Hill, on the Queensferry road. Fields near 
Craiglockhart. 
P. subfenestratus, Steph. 
Not very common. 
Gen. Peryphus. 
P. littoralis, Steph. Car. Uttoralis, Oliv. Marsh. 
Very common on the shores of the Firth, and through- 
out the country by the sides of rivers, ponds, &c. Spring 
and summer. 
P. decorus, De Jean. Car. immunis, Marsh. 
Not common. Under sea-weed on the shore east of For- 
tobello. 
P. agihs, Steph. Per.fiiscicornis, De Jean. 
Occasional, under stones chiefly in sandy places. Banks 
of the Water of Leith, and Esk. 
P. tibialis, Steph. 
Sandy places, not common. Sand-pit beside the Expe- 
rimental Garden. 
