Dr. Leach first proposed separating Bledius from Oxytelus ; 
but no characters have hitherto been given : the curious horns 
that arise from the head and thorax of the male are sufficient 
to distinguish it from that genus. 
We can now record two species. 
1. B. tricornis Paylc ., Oliv, tab . 6.f. 56. a. b. — armatus Panz . 
Paun, Germ, 66. 1 7. Trans. Ent, Soc. p. 97. tab . 7.f> 3. 
About 16 years ago Mr. G. Skrimshire first discovered 
this insect on the banks of rivers in Cambridgeshire, and it 
was afterwards detected by the Rev. T. Skrimshire and the 
late Rev. I. Burrell from the end of April to the middle of 
July on the Sandhills at Cley, Norfolk. 
2. B. Skrimshirii nob. 
It is with sincere pleasure that we avail ourselves of the 
opportunity of naming this fine and remarkable insect after its 
captor, the Rev. T. Skrimshire, whose zeal and liberality have 
enabled us to present our readers with this striking novelty, 
as well as his own observations upon the economy of the genus. 
66 They were all taken upon the sea shore at Holkham. The 
live ones in crevices in the sand or rather loam of which the 
sea banks are raised and covered with rejectamenta marts . The 
dead male which I sent you was found upon the dry sandy 
hills in company with myriads of B. tricornis all dead, and 
deposited there by the wind, though I have not yet discovered 
a regular habitat of the latter insect in this neighbourhood. In 
the month of June I have found many of the B. tricornis in 
the same situation, under the rejectamenta maris in crevices of 
the sea bank, mostly females : I conceive they get into these 
situations after the regular season is over to deposit their eggs, 
or to hibernate, as they are by no means so lively as repre- 
sented by our late friend Mr. Burrell in the Transactions of 
the London Entomological Society, and are a month later, 
though I have taken B. tricornis at Wisbeach still later, in 
July, and in their proper habitat.” 
Pwiariahygrometrica (Little Golden-locks, Golden Maiden- 
hair), magnified about 4 times, is figured in the plate. 
