COUEOPTKKA OF KlCHMOND PAKK. HiJ 



never very rich in fungi, as far as my oxperionco goes. A few days 

 ago, in the portion of Wimbledon Common adjoining the park, I 

 turned up Tachi/ponis pallidm in profusion and tntiisrcrsulis, both 

 good species. Of Qiwdii, I have taken mesomdinm, fali/iilus, inuivti- 

 coUi.s and cinctus, /iili</inosiis, nii/ricqis and .sutmalis, some very 

 sparingly, others connnonly, with many Plnlontld, the best being (/<ror?(.s-, 

 saiKiuinnlcittK.s and nii/rita. Baptoliam alk'niaits is very common in 

 rotten wood stumps, along with two or three of the commoner 

 Xantholiiii and Ijat/trobii. L. nudtijiunctiaii is the only good one of the 

 latter I have come across so far. 



Lately I have been taking ( 'ri/jitoliimii iilalnfvimwn out of some thick 

 strong moss in the same locality as Tachi/iionis, in scanty numbers, and 

 Stilicu.s ni/ipcs and orbiculatHs, the latter in numbers in the park 

 preserves. Many of the common Strni and O.vi/tdi occur freely, but so far 

 I have never met with any of the Bledii. L'roijnatJia quadiicornls I have 

 found, on several occasions, v;nder bark of dead or decaying trees, 

 generally in very wet, sappy stuff ; it is a handsome and striking insect. 

 Of the Clavicorns — AmjddculliK (/lohiis, once only, a few Necrophnri and 

 Silphac, with occasionally an abundance of some common Clmlcra, are 

 all the Silpliidae I have seen in the park. Coccimilidae are singularly 

 scarce, except for two or three of the very common species. 



The best Histcrs have been H. biwaculatiis, I'aromalus flaricoruis, 

 (hiathonciis nannctensis and Onthnphilus striatiis, except the last, all of 

 them anything but numerous. Xitidida 4:-piUitulata, snid to be rare, has 

 several times turned up commonly in dried-up dead rubbish, with many of 

 its commoner allies. Wn::opha</us ciibratns, two autumns ago, occurred 

 in profusion in a mass of wet rotten fungi on a tree stump, with them 

 one or two 11. paralhiucollis. TriphyUus punctatu.s, the same autumn, 

 occurred in plenty in "poor man's beef" fungus. AttcKjeam pdlio, I 

 have taken flying in the park, and last year I bred out several of the 

 pretty Mci/atonia uudata and Tircsias scrra, from larvje which occur in 

 plenty under dry hawthorn bark. The larvic are brownish creatures, 

 with a long tail of stiff bristly hairs at the end of the abdomen, and 

 four tufts at the sides: these they can move up or down with a 

 curious fan-like motion. I fed them on dry crusts. Last December 

 I took several Ci/tilHs rariii.'i in moss, with Siiiipli>cari<i sfinistriata. 



Of the Lamellicorns, Liiccnnis ccrrm occurs, but not in plenty, I have 

 taken it in the garden of my house, which is about a quarter of a mile 

 from the park wail, and also J hums parallflopiprdus^ but the former is 

 scarce compared with its abundance in Kent. 



I have worked the Aji/nxlii very thoroughly, and taken several of tlie 

 better ones, such ns/ix'tens (always in small colonies in early spring), 

 comtans, porcm (always in autumn, and in one spot only) ; pu.sillits 

 and cuntaminatus in thousands in the autumn ; zcithrri, in deer dung, 

 always in autuuni or late suunuer, and llcptaularus tcstudinaiins, tbis 

 latter in horse dung, in early spring, in scanty numbers, with Oxipnmis 

 jioiratus at times. Li the early spring, (Tcatniiirs ti/plmriis is to be found 

 all over the park, a little later in the season its dead body is common 

 enough to attract general attention, on account of its formidable horns. 



In the trees in the open ground between my garden and tlie park, 

 Mclanotlta nd'iaii.s and Il/ii-.otrnipis snlstitudis both occur in abundance 

 in the summer, they constantly Uy into the house, but have not met 

 with them in other parts of the park or neighbourhood. 



