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THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
objects so alluringly displayed on the 
twenty- four and a half acres of land 
at Brompton. 
As this periodical will yet bear a 
little more pressure from its correspon- 
dents ( and I would particularly in- 
vite the attention of Coleopterists to 
the fact ) I will add the notice of a 
capture or two that may interest. 
D. Emarginata. On the 19th. of 
January last, the frosty condition of 
the roads induced me to select a path, 
usually impassable to town pedestrians 
in winter. Alighting on a felled treo, 
in a clayey and recently cleared dis- 
trict, I took, under the bark, which 
peeled readily, from the effects of 
frost, — two specimens of a beetle 
which, proved to be no less a rarity 
than the above named ‘ Emerald wing.’ 
Panagceus quadripustulatus. We 
have rarely any lack of wind here, and 
I would advise any Entomologist who 
has a notion of making a descent on 
our coast, to bring with him a good 
fitting skull cap, — otherwise he may 
find more occupation in capturing his 
hat than in taking insects. This my 
experience most impressively taught 
me on the 8th of June, on which oc- 
casion, my hat having spun at the 
end of its guard, I know not what 
number of times, suddenly parted 
from its frail restraint, in the midst of 
a squall, and proceeded, at hurricane 
speed, on its way to the sea, from 
which it was rescued only by a series 
of frantic efforts, more amusing to the 
lookers on than conducive to the good 
temper of the person more immediately 
concerned. Feeling, however, that the 
search for Beetles, as for other good 
things, must be often carried on un- 
der difficulties, we proceeded to ex-* 
plore a sand pit, on that noted Botani- 
cal locality, St. Helen’s Spit. Here 
were swarms of Otiorhynchus atroap- 
terus, 0. ovatus, and P Gibb us. 
struggling helplessly ; after taking a 
sufficiency of which, my children sat 
down on the grassy edge to clear their 
eyes, and unload their boots of the 
sand, when out dropped from under 
them a beetle, — pretty and of suspec- 
ted aristocratic connection, which its 
name Panagccus 4,-pustulatus, I be- 
lieve, confirms. 
For names I am indebted to our 
Island Coleopterist, Mr. George 
Guyon. F. N. Broderick, Ryde, 
Ide of Wight. Oct. 20 th, 1862. 
N. Rufipes etc. When out collec- 
ting the other day, I chanced to see a 
few dried bones, covering about twelve 
inches square, lying in the bottom of 
a ditch, and, on searching’ them, I 
took out no less than thirty -eight spe- 
cimens of Necrobia rufipes , four of N. 
ruficollis, and three of D. vulpinus „ 
with whole hosts of Catops, Stapliyli- 
nidcc &c &c. 
Under stones I have taken Pterosti- 
chus lepidus (forty specimens) Nebria 
Gyllcnhalii ( common ) Blethisa mul- 
tipunctata, Badister bipustulatus, Pa- I 
trobus excavatus , Trechus lapidosus I 
( thirteen ) &c &c. 
In ponds and ditches Dytiscus mar- 
gina/is, and punctulatus, Acilius sul- I 
cattis. Colymbetes fuscus, exofetus, and 
