c/^ [March, 



COLEOPTERA IN HEREFORDSHIRE. 

 BY J. K. LE B. TOMLIN, M.A., T.E.S. 



Having bad several opportunities of collectina; in Herefordshire 

 during the last two seasons, I am able to record a number of interesting 

 species of Coleoptera, some of which, at any rate, may not have been 

 noticed in the county before. As the eastern boundary, between the 

 counties of Hereford and Worcester, runs somewhat arbitrarily, and 

 has been altered within recent years, I may premise that all the records 

 have been carefully verified by the latest ordnance map. 



NotiopMlus rufipes, Curt., Woolhope and Stoke Edith Park, fairly common ; 

 Amara hinicoUis, Schiodte, West Malvern, rare ; Anchomenus ohlongux, F., Stoke 

 Edith ; Bemhidium stomoides, Dej., one in Ciisop Dingle ; B. flammulatum, Clairv., 

 common by the Wye, near Fownhope ; Trechus .secalis, Payk., Cusop Dingle, and 

 near Holme Lacy Bridge ; Lehia chloroeephala, Hoff., var. chryxocephala, Mots., 

 rather common in August on Genista tinctoria, at West Malvern. 



Haliplus confinis, Steph , one at Colwall ; H. immaculatus, Gerh. (cf. Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., 1907, p. 4), rare, in Colv^all brickpits ; Orectochilus viJIosus, Miill., in 

 colonies by the Wye, near Mordiford ; HeJophorus dorsalis, Marsh., common in 

 summer at Ledbury, West Malvern, and Colwall ; H. arcerniciis, Muls., Woolhope 

 district, rare ; Senicocerus exsculptus, Germ., with the last : Hydrpena nigrita, 

 Grevvn., &x\6. gracilis. Germ., widely distributed; H. atricapiUa, Wat., rare in the 

 Pentelow and Mathon brooks ; H. pygmxa, Wat., Cusop Dingle ; H. pulchella, 

 Germ., rare, in the Wye near Holme Lacy Bridge ; Aleochara spadicea, Er., in 

 moles' nests at Stoke Edith ; Oxypoda longipes, Muls., not uncommon in moles' 

 nests at West Malvern and Stoke Edith ; (J. exoleta, Er., one near Fownhope ; 

 O. perplexa, Muls., one swept in Stoke Edith Park ; Atemeles emarginatus, Payk.' 

 occasional. West Malvern ; Homalota ravilla, Er., moles' nests at West Malvern and 

 Stoke Edith ; H. inquinula, Er., in dry dung, West Malvern ; H. paradoxa, Rey, 

 moles' nests at West Malvern, rare ; Tachyusa constricta, Er., River Wye, near Fown- 

 hope, scarce ; T. alra, Gr., one near Mordiford ; Encephalus complicans , Westw., 

 swept at West Malvern, The Wyche, and Stoke Edith ; Sipalia ruficollis, Er., West 

 Malvern, Ledbury, and Stoke Edith ; Oligoto, parva, Kr., swept at Colwall ; 

 O. pusillima, Gr., West Malvern, in a hotbed; O. atomaria, Er., Stoke Edith, 

 common in dry dung ; Deinopsis erosa, Steph., rare, at Wall Hills Camp ; Tachy- 

 porus obtusus, L., v. nitidieollis, Steph., rare, at Stoke Edith ; T. pallidas, Sharp, 

 West Malvern ; Mycetoporus splendens, Marsh., one at Mathon ; M. longicornis, 

 Kr., Ledbury and West Malvern ; Heterothops nigra, Kr., common in moles' nests ; 

 Quediiis longicornis, Kr., very rare, in moles' nests at Tarrington and West Mal- 

 vern ; Q. vexans, Epps., fairly common; Q. /m^^/c^m*, F., one at Stoke Edith ; Q. 

 auricomus, Kies., Cusop Dingle ; Philonthus proximus, Kr., Stoke Edith and Cusop ; 

 P. addendus, Sharp, Stoke Edith, Ledbury, and Bromyard ; P. albipes, Gr., one at 

 West Malvern ; P. concinnus, Gr., one at West Malvern ; P. corruscus, Gr., one at 

 Ledbury ; P.puella, Nordm., occasional. Stoke Edith ; Lathrobium longulum, Gr., Tar- 

 rington, one in a mole's nest ; Dianous coerulescens, Gyll., Mathon and Cusop, com- 



