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THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
the perfect insect is exceedingly ab- 
undant. It flies over a thick mass of 
taugled fern, and a plain of turfy 
grass. Here I worked hard for the 
larva. To my surprise, for I fancied 
that the insect copulated about mid- 
night, I took a pair in cop. shortly 
before ten o clock on the evening of 
May the 9th. Ihe eggs laid were 
very few in number, and of a light 
yellow colour. The minute larva 
appeared about the colour of the ess- 
I was exceedingly disappointed, how- 
e%er, to find that they obstinately 
rcinsed all the plants, in succession, 
which grew in the neighbourhood of 
their parents’ native ground ; and all 
terminated their melancholy lives in 
the course of a few days. J. E. 
BeaCXBURN. 
CAPTURES. 
CoLEOPTERA. 
Captures in 1862. I have, during 
the past year taken the following 
Geodephaga and Brachelytra. The 
species “common everywhere,” 
I have omitted. 
Dromius fasciatus, Abundant among 
dry rubbish at Brighton and 
Southend. 
Metabletus obscuro-guttatus. About 
half a dozen specimens at South- 
end. Dec, 27. 
Lionychus quadrillion. Southend. 
July. 
Leistus rufescens. This occurs at 
Bishop s Wood with ferruginous : 
obtained by brushing hazel. 
Badister bipustulatus. Common a 
Hammersmith marshes. 
B. unipustulatus.. Hot uncommon 
in old willow stumps at the above 
locality. 
B. peltatus. Two specimens with 
the preceding. November. 
B. humeralis. One at Hammersmith 
in October. All the species in 
this genus have a beautiful op' 
alescent reflection. 
Pristonychus terricola. Common in 
cellars. 
Taphria nivalis. One specimen at 
Hampstead. 
Anchomenus livens. One . at sugar. 
Holme Bush. August 29. 
A. oblongus. Extremely abundant 
at Hammersmith. I have speci- 
mens to spare. 
A. pelidnus. One in a Marsh near 
Shoreham. January. 
A. Thoreyi. This insect was common 
at Hammersmith last March, but 
I have only succeeded in finding 
a few specimens this Autumn. 
Pterostichus anthracinus. Hammer- 
smith marshes. One in March ; 
one in July. 
P. gracilis. One at Hammersmith, 
September. 
Amara similata. Rather common 
about this neigbourhood. 
A. acuminata. One at Brighton. 
A. lunicollis. Occurs in the fields 
about here. 
A. fulva. One at Woburn sands, 
Beds. April. Though I have 
looked for this insect at Southend 
and other likely places, I have 
never taken more than this one 
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