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H PAEALLELUs, Sharp. I have a single specimen of this species, which y! 
taken by a fnend in the north of Northumberland. 
H. mcoGNiTus, Sharp. I had eight examples of this species, taken in varfc. 
places m this vicinity, three of which have been lost in the post. Some yearsa,. 
I separated it as distinct from i^alustris, but, on sending it to London, was told i 
It was only an immature variety of that commonest of all commoners.-Tnos Ji 
Bold. Long Benton, Newcastle-on-Tyne, ISth October, 1869. |' 
Pterosticnusmadidusavegetahle.feeder.-My friend Mr. Jas. Hardy writes . 
that he caught a specimen of this common beetle eating a bean, which was st 
green, and had been crushed by a passing foot ; thus adding another to the list ^ 
vegetable-feedmg(?eodep/ta(7a.— Id. 
Captures of rare Coleoptera irv Devonshire.-On 10th October last, I took c 
TJ'Z Z7 '°"''^""*°^ ^'''' ^ ^P^«™^- of a minute Trichopterygian, whic, 
as Mr. Matthews tells me, is Actid^um coarctatum, Haliday, of the greatest ran, 
th.s country, having been found only by its describer in Ireland, and (singi 
specimens) by Dr. Sharp and Mr. Crotch on the Chesil Bank. It appears to b 
recorded also from Sweden, the south of France, and Egypt. I also take here, i 
company with the common La^^dU^s minutus, what I consider to be L. assinnli 
Mann., with alternately raised interstices to the elytra, and usually dark legs 
otherwise extremely resembling L. m^n«i«..-T. V. Wollaston, Barnepark Ter 
race. Teignmouth, November, 1869. 
Occurrence of Bembidium obUquum at Manchester.~On a warm sunny day i, 
Mltr; " '"""''. '' '"' ''°^^ '^'^ '^^"^ "^'''^^^^^ *« -^ -* Clifton, nea, 
Manchester, in a similar habitat to that recorded at page 219. vol. v. of thi, 
Magazine. n May last. I captured Harpalus neglectus at the foot of the sand hill. 
Manch r V"".'"' '''^" ''°'''-'^' ^°^^^^' ''' '^"^^ Street, Pendleton 
Manchester, November 13th. 1869. 
of .'^'^*"^^5;^'^^^°^^'^ ^'-"^-' <^y^^-l W lately met with a single example 
slat' T ""f "''" '''"' "'" '^^^' ^^^"^^°-" - ^ ^*°- -"' - -^-^' 
abundance, ir,c.ioc^a.es bipustnlata in decayed oak, but more often dead than 
ahve; Brachytarsus scabrosus, in exceeding abundance about May, in most white- 
fr; rr: ::' ?^ '~ (^>' ^^ — P^^^ ^^ *^e evening.-H. MAKSH, 
842, Old Kent Road, S.E 
I fon d " if • T "''' ^"^-^-^y - '^- -owning of the 1st Juno last 
found mysel in Dartford. and. unexpectedly, with a lucid interval of half-an-hour 
to wait for the next train to London, chains and slavery. Then there reWved 
within me a fond recollection of the lane "within easy distance" (as the house- 
agents say), where the males of Drilus flavescens used to abound ; where the female 
doubtless then existed, and might possibly now be found , where Asiraca cla^icornis 
had once or twice been swept up by Mr. Eye, and where representatives might 
still exist. Fxlled with these ideas. I startled a chemist by an abrupt demand for 
