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and curiously enough, on the following day I swept up a single 



example on the Sheppey cliffs, a surprising capture in this locality. 



While working for the Coccinella, I took Lahidostomis tridentata (one 



?), and CJytlira ^-punctata, quite commonly; Elater halteatus, 



Rhynchites puhescens, PoTydrusns micnns (common, but worn), Xylehorus 



Saxeseni (on felled oaks), &c. Sweeping in shady paths produced, 



among many other species, Amphicyllis ylohus, Antherophagus pallens, 



Conipora orbiculafa, Rhaqonycha unicolor (3), Rhinonciis denticollis, 



and, best of all, a fine ^ Microrrhagus pygmaus, this being the first 



record of its occurrence in Kent, as far as I am aware. Tillus 



elongatus turned up on the window^ of a house to which I had 



adjourned for some much needed liquid refreshment ; and by brushing 



under an old hedge, quite close to Whitstable, a small series of 



Crypt ocephalus frontalis was taken, in company with Molorclius 



umbellatarum (both sexe>i) , Ccel iodes exiqiius, Sunius intermedins, &c., &c. 



A second visit to the Blean Woods, on July 8rd, produced three 



more examples of Microrrhagus pygmceus (2 (J, 1 $ ) by sweeping 



under oak trees, and I was again so fortunate as to obtain Mordella 



acuJeata, of which two specimens were swept off a very small patch of 



ox-eye daisy {Chrysanthemum leucanthemuni) ,^u^t at the entrance of the 



woods from the Whitstable side. Three examples of the queer little 



Rhytidosomus globulus, seen alive by me for the first time, were also 



very welcome ; they occurred singly at long intervals, and came off 



young shoots of as[)en and sallow^ Coccinella distincta was still fairly 



plentiful, though less so than on my previous visit ; and Colo7i 



brunneum, Zeugophora subspinosa, Cln'ysomela varians, Melasoma 



longicolle, Mordellistena incequalis (one very large example), Byctiscus 



betuleti, Depordus megacephalus, Rhinoncus denticollis (1), and many 



commoner species, turned up in the sweeping-net. Antherophagus ni- 



gricornis came out to the number of half-a-dozen (all ? except one) from 



a few sprays of honeysuckle flowers which I had plucked and put in my 



hat to take home. Previous to my entering the woods, Cryptocephalus 



frontal is agam occurred, but only three examples. Choragus Sheppardi 



was swept off short grass by the roadside, and by beating a dead 



hedge, Throscus oblusus w'as obtained quite plentifully, along with 



Cis aliii, Gracilin pygmcea (common), Lissodcma i-pustulatum, and other 



beetles usually found by this method of collecting. 



23, Kaiiolagli Road, Shccrness : 

 Juli/ ofk, 1897. 



