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this time, profiting by Mr. J. J. Walker's experience with tlie species, I paid special 

 attention to the recently fallen dead leaves, with the result that one visit produced 

 quite as many specimens as I cared to undertake to set. 



Other Co^eop/era found at the same time were-Badister sodalis, Somalota 

 linearis, II. nigritula, H. humeralis (2), Mycetoporus punctus (4), Megacroniis 

 inclinans, Quedius semicBneus, Stemis Erichsoni, Afomaria umbrina, Cri/ptophagus 

 setulosus, Cetithorrhynchidius quercicola, and Acalles ptinoides ; the last named was 

 probably attached to some small twigs of beech which were lying on the ground 

 at this spot. The Brachysomus seemed to be distributed for a very considerable 

 distance along the border of this wood, which is situated on the chalk, and has a 

 southern aspect.— E. Geo. Elliman, Chesham, Bucks : January Qth, 1899. 



Steni and other Coleoptera in Richmond Park. — During the past three months 

 I have been working, whenever other duties gave leisure, the banks of a small pond 

 in the Park for Steni and other damp-loving Staphylinidee. The pond, a very small 

 one, occupies a sunny sheltered position in a wood, its banks are grown over with 

 reeds, and it is at the roots of these, and under the decaying reed stems and dead 

 leaves about them, that all my captures have been made. In September, when I 

 first began to work it, before the long drought broke up, the pond was quite dry, 

 though the ground was still soft and damp in the centre, now it is quite full again. 

 At this small spot I have now taken nineteen species of Stenus, some of them by no 

 means generally common ; the following is a complete list: — J una, Y., speculator, 

 Er., providus (v. Rogeri), Kr., buphthalnms, Grrav., incrassatus, Er., melanarius, 

 Steph., canaliculatus, Gyll., pusiUns, Er., brunnipes, Steph., impressus, Grerm., cBrosus, 

 Er., binotatus, Ljungh, bifoveolatus, Gyll., picipennis, Er., eicindeloides, Grav., 

 tarsalis, Ljungh, paganu.t, Er., lati/rons, lS,r., fornicatus, Steph. It was the dis- 

 covery of S.fornicatus which induced me to thoroughly work this spot, as judging 

 from my friends' collections that insect is by no means common. In the Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. for July, 1868, the late Mr. Rye recorded a similarly large number of species 

 of Stenus from a very limited area on Barnes Common, a few miles away from my 

 spot ; he found twenty-two in all, and all of the above except arosus and impressus, 

 while pallitarsis is the only at all local species he got which I have not yet come 

 aci'oss, but it is quite possible as spring comes on I may increase my list ; I may add 

 that most of the species were in fair numbers. 



Amongst other insects taken at this spot were Oxypoda longiuscula, Er., Ocyusa 

 maura, Er., Ocalea badia, Er., Homalota xanthoptera, Steph., and marcida, Er. 

 (this last with the outstanding hairs at the joints of the antennae very marked), 

 Gnypeta labilis, Er., Conosoma pubescens, Grav., Quedius Jttliginosus, Grav. (not a 

 common species), and nigriceps, Kr., Lathrobiiim terminatum, Grav., Cercyon 

 hcemorrhous , Gj'll., Bembidium articitlatnm, Panz., Stenolophus vespertinus, Panz., 

 Fhilhydrus minuius, F., and several others still undetermined. Mr. Donisthorpe, 

 who visited the spot with me one day to secure S.furnicatus, turned up a couple of 

 Deinopsis (trosa, Steph. — T. Hudson Beare, Park House, King's Road, Richmond : 

 January, 1899. 



Cryptocephalus exiguus, Schneid. (= Wasastjernce, Gyll.) : an addition to the 

 Suffolk Fauna. — Whilst sweeping in some marshes near Oulton Broad in June last 

 I captured a specimen of this rare beetle, which has not previously been recorded 



