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COLEOPTERA NEW TO THE HERTFORDSHIBE FAUNA. 

 By E. G. Elliman and C. T. Gimingham. 



Head at St. Albans, 6th March, 1906. 



The following are four additions to the list of Hertfordshire 

 Coleoptera : — 



Stemis opticus, Grav. — Taken in dead rushes, Little Tring, near 

 Tring. 



Poddbrus alpinus, Payk. — Taken at St. Albans by Mr. A. E. 

 Gibbs. 



Longitarsus curtus, All. — Taken at Tring in 1904. This species 

 has lately been recorded as British by Mr. J. E. le B. Tomhn, 

 on the authority of specimens found in the Isle of Man. It now 

 appears that these Manx specimens are a small form of 

 L. melanocephahis, Deg. I have submitted the specimens taken 

 l)y myself to M. Bedel, and he is quite positive as to their 

 identity. The species has been found on Echium vulgare in 

 France : in the case of my own specimens I believe them to have 

 been living upon a species of Myosotls. L. curtus bears 

 a considerable resemblance to L. lycopi, Foudr. 



Apion Schonherri, Boh. — Found in haystack refuse at Tring. 



E. G. Elliman. 



The following three species of Coleoptera lately captured in 

 Hertfordshire are additions to the county list : — 



Gnathoncus rotundatus, Kugel. 



Dendrophilus punctatus. 111. — Both these species were taken 

 from the debris of an old owl's nest in a decayed tree-stump in 

 Lamer Park, Wheathampstead, in May, 1905. 



Scolytus multistriatus. Marsh. — This I found in my garden at 

 Harpenden in July, 1904. I had quite a large colony that 

 summer in some rustic woodwork, but I have not seen one there 

 since. C. T. Gimingham. 



Trans. Hertfordshire Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. XIII, Fart 1, February, 1907. 



