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number of insects, usually assDciatcd in our minds with seaside 

 conditions, to be met with here. Thus, At/rotis oestigiaJis {onlli(/era) 

 has occurred not rarely, as well as at Bt)ars' Hill on somewhat 

 similar ground not far distant ; and among the Golr.optera, Harpalus 

 anxius (recorded by Mr. Holland, Ent. Mo. Mag., vol xxxviii, p. 18) 

 Amai-a fulva, and A. tibialis, are among the commonest of their 

 res])ective genera ; Bledius opticus is found burrowing in the sand in 

 numbers in spring and autumn, and Heterocerus Jlexuosus in the 

 banks of ponds; Notoxus monoceros (in all its varieties) and Micro- 

 zoum tihiale swarm at times, and Ctf-niopiis sulphureus abounds on 

 the flowers of the yellow bedstraw {Gdlium verncm) in July; Ortho- 

 cerus tnuticus is sometimes not uncommon, and Cri/pticiis quisquilius 

 has been found in plenty by Mr. Holland, but I have not yet met 

 with it myself. 



Among the species taken here by me are : Cychrus rodratus, occasionally in a 

 sand-pit ; Harpalus discoideus, at times Tery common under stones, and Amara 

 consularis, abundant under rubbish in sandy fields. Aleochara cuniculorum, found 

 in great numbers early in May by Mr. G. C Champion and myself in two large 

 and very strong-smelling rabbit-burrows on the common ; Lamprinus saginaius, 

 very sparingly by cutting tufts of grass infested with Myrmica ruginodis, in April ; 

 G-yrophxna strictula, very abundnnt in a hard Boletus on a stump, and Encepha- 

 lus cumplicans in tufts. Microgloxsa pulla, Engis humeralis (common), Cryptopha- 

 gus populi, TriphyUus suturalis, Tiresias serra, Hypophlaus bicolor, and Tetratoma 

 fungorum in plenty, in fungus and under bark on an old elm ; Pocadius ferrugineus, 

 numerous in puff-balls, and Trox sabulosus, under dry rabbit-skins. Ceuthorrhyn- 

 chus geographictts, on Echitim vulgare, and Ceuthorrhynchideus horridus, on 

 Carduus nutans, both common ; Coeliudes exiguus, in plenty on Oeranium pyrenai- 

 cum. Apion schonherri (another insect usually associated with sea-eoast con- 

 ditions), somewhat local, but almost, if not quite, the most abundant yellow-legged 

 Apion in the district, occurring plentifully even by the roadside throughout the 

 summer, as well as in tufts of grass in early spring. A. sanguineum, occasionally by 

 sweeping, but more frequently in a sand-pit, where Mr. Holland has taken it quite 

 freely in the late autumn ; A. pallipes on Mercurialis, and A. pubescens and spencei 

 by general sweeping. This latter method has produced, among many other species, 

 Callicerus obscurus, Homalota scapularis, Anisotoma rugosa (a fine example on 

 October 22nd last year), Catops sericatus, Saprinus virescens (by Mr. Champion in 

 May last), Heptaulacus viltosus (one each by Mr. Holland and myself on July 9th 

 last year ; I have also taken this species within the last few days at Wychwood 

 Forest and at Streatley, Berks) ; Trachys pumila, rarely in the sand-pit, and more 

 frequently by sweeping the shortest herbage on wrhich the net can be got to bear, in 

 open places among the bracken in the wood ; all the specimens that I have taken in 

 this way appear to come off Nepeta glechoma ; Limonius cylindricus (also 

 common under stones), Cryptokypnus A-pustulatus, Malachius viridis (common), 



