206 [September, 



In the Porest as elsewhere, the effects on insect life of the long 

 continuance of cold and ungenial weather so characteristic of the 

 present season, was only too evident ; and for the first week of my 

 stay, little else could he done except to hunt everywhere for timber 

 in workable condition, very little of which is to be found now-a-days, 

 though sufficiently productive whenever met with. The apparent ab- 

 sence of insects of all Orders — with the exception of the inevitable 

 bloodthirsty Diptera — was most striking, especially as regards the Lepi- 

 doptera, and only one or two forlorn-looking specimens of the most 

 ordinary butterflies were to be seen in the course of a long day's march. 

 The fine bright weather which set in about the 10th of the month 

 wrought a most welcome change, and enabled me to meet with 

 Anthaxia, Agrilus viridis, and other sun-loving Goleoptera, though it 

 was evidently almost too late in the season for these, as it certainly 

 was for most of the Longicorns, the only one of this group met with 

 at all plentifully being the common Straiigalia armata. Collectors, 

 too, began to put in an appearance, along with some of the more 

 characteristic Forest butterflies, such as Limenitis sihylla, Argynnis 

 pnphia and adippe, &c., though these latter were only beginning to 

 be fairly common when T left ; A. selene being then still on the wing 

 and in good condition. 



The following species of Coleoptera (some of which were also 

 taken by Mr. A. J. Chitty and Mr. G. C. Champion, who were with 

 me part of the time) occurred to me: — 



Trechiis secriH.t, in wet Sphagnum ; Ilydrxna sp. (probably lotigior, Key) and 

 nigrifa, taken rallier freclj, especially the first, in the gravelly bods of streams ; 

 Aleochara cuniculorum, in rabbit burrow.s,and A. mgcetophfiga, in a fungus. Ateiiieles 

 emarginafus, in a sand-pit ; Lamprinns xaginatus, under a log with Formica fusca ; 

 Tachinus hipitstulatns, at a Cossus oak ; Megncronns cingulatus, among decayed wood, 

 Qnedius ventralift, under beech bark, Q. cruentus var. virens, at Cossus oak, with 

 Homalium rufipes var. nigrum, Q-rav. ; Q. xanthopus, under very rotten beech bark 

 with I'hiJonlhiis splendidulus. Pa?derus caligatus, running about in a wet place ; 

 Phlceocharis tuhtilissima, among dead sticks. 



Agnthidium nigripenne, under bark ; Liodes orbicularis, ratlier freely among 

 snuff-like fungus, with its usual attendants Enicmus testaceus,Aspidophorus, Sphin- 

 dus, &c. Anisotoma nigrita sparingly, A. parvnla and Colon serripes rarely, by 

 evening sweeping. Scydmunius exilis, Euthia schaumi, Bythinus curlisi, and B. 

 puncticolUs, among decayed wood and dead leaves ; Trichonyx sulcicoJHs, one ex- 

 ample among rubbish at the foot of a decaying beech (Mr. Champion took a speci- 

 men after I left). Tfypernspis re/jpewsis, by sweeping ; Daene /lumeral is, under 

 beech bark ; Colydlum elongatum, one under the bark of a large fresh beech log ; 

 Onathoncus nannetensis, by sweeping ; Plegaderus dissectus, not rare in very rotten 



