JUNE.

Scientific Names.

English Names.

Locality.

Month.

Calosoma inquisitor. Independently of th beautiful colouring of the genus to whic

species belongs, the insects it compris

from most of the Geodephaga by peculiarity of habit; leaving their congeners to pursue their prey upon the ground, they climb in pursuit of caterpillars over hedges, and even to the tops of trees, and fly with a celerity only equalled by the Cicindeliada. The grubs or larvæ are so voracious as to gorge till they become quite helpless, in which state they are devoured by those of their brethren, whose "famine is not filled."

Several authors

Agonum sex-punctatum. have stated that, since the year 1812, this insect has disappeared: it once, however, occurred in this county in 1828.

Calathus rufangulus. The best method of obtaining this elegant and local insect is, by shaking loose sods of turf in sandy places.

Patrobus rufipes. Mr. Stephens must have been mistaken when he asserted this to be a littoral insect. In this part of the kingdom, it occurs on the banks of rivers and ditches, in woods, and even on the summits of the Derbyshire mountains.

Colymbetes maculatus. This beautiful but variable aquatic beetle, which is so accuratel figured by Mr. Samouelle, in p. 3. f. 15, of his