NOTKS ON" TIIK BRITISH LONGICORNES. JSJSO 



occur. I have fouiid it in stacks of wodd iu some iiumlicrs iii tlu; New 

 Forest; brtx-'din^' the majority of specimens from tlie pupa, however. 

 It is considered rare. It occurs in the London district, and has Ijeen 

 taken near Burtou-on-Trent. This species and the foUowin<^ are also 

 both Leicestershii'e Longicornes. The next s])ecies, Callidiwn atni, 

 L., in one of the smallest of the British Longicornes ; it is a pretty little 

 insect, red and black, marked with white bands. It is found under 

 bark of faggots, etc., occasionally beaten out of dead hedges, and by 

 sweeping. It appears to be rather widely distributed, being taken in 

 various places all over England and Wales, but is a local insect. I 

 have taken it under bark of fences on Wimbledon Common and in 

 Tilgatc Forest. Of the last speeies, < 'allidium sa)i(/uuu'um, L., I can 

 learn nothing reliable. It is a bright scarlet insect. It is recorded by 

 Stephens fi'om London, North Wales and Exeter. I should say it was 

 undoubtedly an importation. 



{To be continued.) 



On species of Coleoptera occurring in a limited area. 



By H. S. GORHAM, F.Z.S., FES, etc. 



The number of species of any family of insects which may be 

 obtained on a very limited area of ground, in a good locality, has 

 always seemed to me worthy of notice, as showing what may be done 

 by ])ersistent collecting aud constant watchfulness. What we see 

 represents, no doubt, a very small ])ro])ortion of the rarities, which in 

 the coiu'se of their migrations visit every j)art of the district we live in. 

 It is mainly a (juestion of eyes or no eyes. My house and garden at 

 Shirley Warren occupy a space of about two acres. The folhtwing 

 notes refer only to the roleo})tera, and I only note the s])ecies which 

 appear to be usually scaree, and most of which I have only met with 

 here in the area named. The soil is sandy or gravelly, and the neigh- 

 bourhood is well cultivated and has many trees, as well as gardens, and 

 some heathy ground. I have noted many good insects of other Orders. 



In the house, especially the cellars, S'phodrns leucopfkalmus, once 

 only; I'risfonijchus, common; ('alathus 2^ireus, (^urahus violacens, 

 C. nemoralis. In the garden : Amara ovnta, (Krj/porns rufus (once 

 two or three specimens in a HolefusJ, Acidofa crni-ntaiit. Scydmaenufi 

 pumilio, Anommatns 12-.sfr?V/<^^s' (frequently in potato skins of the old 

 " sets," when dry, and in hollow carrots, also in i)utf balls), llldzopha- 

 gus perforatus (abundantly ilying, about the middle of June, in the 

 evening, with a few 11. drpressus and />'. ferruijineus), AmplticyUis 

 yhdiosus, /''Inter clonyatutus, PhospJiaoius heinipterns (abundantly, 

 but all J s, and disappearing ; I have not seen it this year), Lyffa 

 vesicatoria (one found l)y my son, Lieut. A. (xorliam. quite freshly 

 emerged), Ih-yocaetes coryli, (hlontneus mohiliconiis, 2 (<»iic flew in 

 to light, July 27th, 18U4 ; a second example, also J , obtained in the 

 same way, June loth, 18iH)), Leptvra fnlva (this insect has only ap- 

 ])eared iiere in 18!)^ ; in that year I obtained nine examples, four or 

 live of them in my garden), ('aenojtsis Jissirosfn's (not unfre(|Uently). 



To note all the coDimon species occurring in a given limited area 

 would require careful collecting, and take time for their determination. 

 This I have not done, but the number must be very large. The above 

 list only represents, of course, casual captures. 



