Ch. fulgida? Fabr. Eleut. LEPTURA APPENDICULATA. CURCULIO. leucostigma C. Alni C. nigrirostris C. rigidus C. urticæ C. semicylindricus C. pilosulus C. triguttatus C. diffinis C. argentatus C. cnides C. oblongus C. colon CICINDELA. Cic. semipunctata Cic. biguttata PARNUS. P. prolifericornis. profusion than others, HETEROCERUS. Het. marginatus Het. lævigatus Panz. HYDROPHILUS. Hy. caraboides Hy. fuscipes CLERUS. Cl. violaceus Cl. quadra Hy. orbicularis Hy. lividus Hy. bipunctatus Car. meridianus Car. 4-guttatus Car. distans Car. remotus Car. lutescens. Panzer. Car. vespertinus. Panz. LYTTA. Lyt. antherina MORDELLA. Mor. picea Mor. biguttata var. Mor. ruficollis STAPHYLINUS. St. maxillosus St. riparius St. marginatus St. obtusus St. merdarius St. conicus Additional Note by Mr. Haworth. That many land Insects may be caught during sudden floods, and by watching flowing streams for drowning stragglers, and by shaking others off their food, into waters, few Entomologists are sufficiently aware and still fewer will be able to conceive or explain, how the mighty host recorded in Stowe's Chronicle had gathered together in the "swift Severn," to perish in countless millions. The following is his account of this extraordinary occurrence, verbatim et literatim : "The foure and twentie of February, at Tewkes"bury a strange thing happened, after a flood which was not great, in the afternoone there came downe "the river of Severne great numbers of Flies and "Beetels, such as in summer evenings use to strike "men in the face, in greate heapes, a foote thick “above the water, so that to credible men's judge"ment there were within a paire of bytes length of · "those Flies above a hundred quarters. The Milles "thereabout were dammed up with them for the 66 space of four daies after, and then were cleansed "by digging them out with shovels: from whence "they came is yet unknowne, but the day was colde ❝ and a harde frost." Stowe's Chronicles, printed in black letter 1597. |