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May) and the latter upon rabbits in May and November, crow in March and stoat 

 in May ; I liave twice met with both L. atrocephalum on rabbit in February and 

 crow in Marcli, and H. oxyacanth-A' in dog in March and horse in June. Proteinus 

 ovalis is sometimes abundant in these situations, though even commoner on vegetable 

 refuse ; it has occurred upon eight occasions : — in crow, dog and mole in March, 

 dog, crow, and rabbits in April, and pigeon in May. A drowned dog in a reedy 

 ditch produced seven specimens of Phalacnis caricis on April 16th, and two more 

 on May 1st, 1895. 



3. — I am not of opinion that any Homalota is exclusively found in carrion ; 

 certainly all those I have noted, with the possible single exception of H. divisa, 

 which has occurred thrice in rabbit, horse and lamb in May and June, are more 

 usually met with elsewhere; those noticed are S. aquatica in rabbit in May, 

 S. atramentaria in rat in April and pigeon in May, H. succieola twice in crows in 

 March and April, H. fungi once in rabbit in April, H.fuvgicola upon six occasions 

 in crows in March and April and in rabbits and rook and stoat in May, H. gagatina 

 once in rook in May, H. marcida in rabbit in February, H. nigricornis in jay in 

 April and stoat in May, H. orbata in pigeon in May, R. trinotata thrice in crow 

 and jay in April and stoat in May, H. vestita on dog in April, H. vicina on crow in 

 March, and H. xanthoptera on rabbit in April. I am not perfectly sure that the 

 Oxypoda3 were actually taken in carrion, though I am of opinion that I found 

 O. lividipennis in a pigeon in May, 0. opaca on a crow in April together with 

 O. umbrata ; I am, howevei', quite sure that I beat Microglossa pulla from 

 a hung-up stoat in the middle of May, 1901. Another of the occasional species is 

 Tachinus niarglnellus in a dog in March, probably because all sheep's dung was too 

 wet for its habitation. Very few species of Philonthus appear to constantly occur 

 in dead animals, those least often met with being P. ebeninus once in hedgehog early 

 in May, P. succieola in partridge in the middle of August, and P. sanguinolentus 

 in rabbit in middle of May ; twice only I have met with P. fimetarius in pigeon 

 and crow in April and May, P. politus in mole and rat in June and July, 1893, 

 P. varians in hedgeh ig on May dth and 8th, P. varius in dog in April and rabbit in 

 September, and lastly P. umbratills in crow in April and cow at Lyndhurst in 

 August. The only other kinds I consider occasional are the coprophagous genera 

 Aphodius and Onthophagus, all of which (with the exception of O. fracticornis in 

 dog in April and partridge in August) have occurred but once : — O. ovatus in 

 rabbit in August, A. tristis in a cod's head in June, A. erraticus in rabbit in April, 

 1893, and A! inquinatiis in rat in March. 



4. — Among the genuine carrion beetles a few of the genera are, I believe, 

 (a) never carnivorous, but act as final dissoluters to the ancient carcase. Of these 

 Trox sahulosus has appeared twice in crow and rabbit in April, and T. scaber once 

 in a rabbit (though often seen flying) in early June. Necrobia rufipes has only once 

 turned up, in a scare crow early in August, though N. violacea has been taken on 

 seven occasions in April, May, June, July and September in sheep, cat, owl, crab, 

 calf, and in the New Forest in unidentified bones. The species of Dermestes 

 demolish the skin, and D. murinus is probably the most common of all the beetles 

 noted, having been observed upon no fewer than twenty-one occasions (of which 

 thirteen were in April, four in May, two in August, and one each in March and 



