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locality indicated for the others * ; the remaining one, X atri- 
cilia, has been observed on two occasions on the south coast of 
England, and by Montagu only. Of the twof additional Euro- 
pean species, X. melanocephalum and X. ichthyaetum, the former 
inhabits “ southern,^^ the latter south-eastern Europe. Xema 
Franklini is the only North American species which has not been 
obtained in Europe. 
XXII. — On the Insects of Jamaica. By Philip Henry Gosse. 
[Continued from p. 115.] 
COLEOPTERA. 
1. Cicindela Guadalupensis. I found this species in some 
numbers about the end of the year at Alligator Pond, on the 
sandy beach, close to the wharf ; where the Canavalia rosea grows, 
and the beautiful Convolvulus pes caprce makes a carpet of verdure, 
and trails its long stems over the heavy sand. In May it was 
numerous at low-water on a little sandy (or perhaps rather 
muddy) point at Bluefields Creek, formed from the draining of 
the morass at the junction of the creek with the sea : immense 
numbers of little Gelasimi run over this point, and perforate it 
with their burrows in every part. Among them the Cicindelce 
also run when it is not covered by the tide. They are as wary 
and as agile as their congeners elsewhere ; on the wing with the 
approach of a footstep, and alighting at the distance of a few 
yards, so as to be caught with difficulty even with a net. I have 
taken them by running headlong among them, and making a 
dash at random with the net. 
[Carabidce. Two or three small speeies of this great family, I 
believe, occurred under stones at the summit of Bluefields Moun- 
tain, but I cannot now find the specimens so as to determine 
their genera.) 
2. Cy bister Icevigatus. In some of the rivulets that cross the 
high road between Paradise and Savanna le mar. Its manners 
resemble those of the English Dyticidce. 
3. Copelatus ccelatipennis. 
4. Dineutes longimanus. At Basin Spring, in a brook having 
* The species of Larus (as distinguished from Xema) frequenting Belfast 
Bay are L. marinus, L.fuscus, L. argentatus, L. canus, L. tridactylus and 
L. Islandicus ; all of which are common but the last : — it was once obtained. 
Specimens of these, as well as of the Xemce noticed from the same locality, 
are preserved in the Belfast Museum. 
t X. plumiceps, Bonap., is not enumerated in the ‘ Wirbelthiere Europa’s ’ 
or ‘ Rev. Crit. des Oiseaux d^Eur.’ (Schlegel). 
