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beech, but more sparingly than on previous occasions. Epuriea 10- cfut tat a, a few at 

 a Cossus oak ; Thymaliis limhatus, sparingly under bark, along witli its curious 

 larva. Ephistemus globosus, by evening sweeping ; Diploccelun fagi, rarely, and 

 Mycetophagus picetis, a few, in " rod-rol ten " oak, also Tiresias serra with its larva ; 

 M. quadrigulfafti.s, in numbers among dead leaves and wood-dust in a hollow beech. 

 JEJmis volkmari and Limnius troglodytes in the beds of streams, the latter plen- 

 tifully. 



Anlhaxia nitidula, about lialf a dozen on rose and bramble flowers ; Agrilus 

 viridis, rare, on old sallows and stunted oaks ; A. laticornix, by sweeping. Trachy* 

 troglodytes, two examples, on July 11th and 13th respectively, by sweeping in a 

 little swamp. Throacus carinifronx, rather commonly by evening sweeping ; Melasis 

 huprestoldes, on old hawthorn, and Microrrhagiis pygnueus, in very rotten beech. 

 Elater lythropterus, one only, under beech bai'k ; E. elongatulus, not rare by sweeping, 

 this species is apparently much more common and generally distributed than it was 

 a few years ago. Athotis rhotnbeus, two or three dug out of rotten beech by Mr. 

 Champion when with me. 



Dasytes niger, rarely, in flowers; Lymexylon navale, one ? on July 22nd, 

 flying about a dead standing oak ; Xyletinus ater, oi\e in dead but sound oak timber ; 

 Dorcatoma clirysomelina, fairly common in two decaying oak trees, one of which 

 yielded a few dead but serviceable specimens of Anitys rubens. Anoplodera sex- 

 guttata, on umbels ; Leptura scutellata, not uncommon, walking about on dead 

 timber as usual. Chrysomela varians, sparingly on Hifpericum, and Melasoma 

 populi, abundant in all its stages on dwarf sallow. 



Cistela ceramboides , a fine $ among fragments of rotten oak wood ; Myceto- 

 chares bipustulata, under birch bark ; Eryx ater, at the foot of a decayed beech with 

 Tetratoma fungorum ; Clinocara undulata, sparingly on dead timber ; Conopalpus 

 testaceus, by sweeping, also on dead beech ; Anisoxya ftiscula, one among dead 

 leaves, &c. Phloeotrya ruflpes, under rotten beech bark ; Salpingus xratus, by 

 sweeping ; Scraptia fuscula, one <? example in dry " red-rotten " oak, with Xylo- 

 philus oculatus not rarely, the latter also to be obtained by beating the adjacent 

 foliage ; Tomoxia biguttata, settling on dead beech timber. 



Sitones cambricus, on Lotus major ; Orchestes iota, fairly common on Myrica 

 gale; Tychius h-punctatits, locally not rare on Lathy rus macrorrhizui (perhaps 

 better known as Orolnis tuberosiis), but much more sparingly than at a somewhat 

 earlier period last year ; Nanophyes gracilis, by sweeping in a wet place ; I'hytobius 

 ioaltoni, common on Polygonum, and P. qiiadrinodosus, rather sparingly by sweeping 

 in the plantations. Cryphalus abietis,hy evening sweeping, and Xylebontx xaxeseni, 

 in decayed beech. 



A visit to Lymington on July 18th produced, besides several species of Coleop- 

 tera characteristic of the " Salterns," a series of my old Harwich acquaintance, 

 Codiosoma spadix, dug out of an elm skirting-board washed by the sea at every 

 high tide. 



" Aorangi," Lonsdale Road, 



Summertown, Oxford : 

 August 6th, 1907. . 



