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A. villosa, Mann., three specimens in a stable yard, Great Salkeld; 

 Microglossa suturalis, Mann., abundant in barns and cow-houses, 

 Great Salkeld; Oxypoda vittata, Maerk., scarce in haystack refuse, 

 Great Salkeld ; 0. tarda, Sharp, abundant on a sandbank near Great 

 Salkeld, April 9th, 1903; Calodera umbrosa, Er., one specimen at 

 roots of rushes, Great Salkeld, May 7th, 1903 ; Dinarda maerkeli, 

 Kies., one specimen with Formica rufa, Keswick, April 13th, 1906 ; 

 Notothecta flavipes, Grav., common with Formica rufa, Keswick, April 

 13th, 1906 ; N. anceps, Er., three specimens with Formica rufa, 

 Keswick, April 13th, 1906 ; Homalota longula, Heer, common 

 amongst shingle on the banks of the Eden, Great Salkeld : H. 

 subtillissima, K., abundant beneath stones on damp shingle, banks of 

 Eden, Great Salkeld ; //. angustula, Gyll., on muddy margins of the 

 river Eden, Great Salkeld; H. cuspidata, Er., common beneath bark 

 of elm, ash. and fir trees, Great Salkeld ; H. cavifrons, Sharp, local, 

 at roots of grass and in moss, Great Salkeld ; 11. pollens, Redt., 

 common beneath stones on damp shingle, banks of Eden, Great 

 Salkeld ; H. parallela, Mann., abundant in nests of Formica rufa, 

 Keswick, April 13th, 1906 ; H. hepatica, Er., rare, a fine S > sweeping 

 at Cumrew, June 2nd, 1903 ; H. coriaria, Kr., not common in birds' 

 nest, Great Salkeld ; H. autumnalis, Er., two J s on banks of a pond, 

 Edenhall, May 13th, 1906; H. mortuorum, Thorns., is abundant in 

 carrion, dead leaves, decaying vegetable matter, etc., in this district ; 

 Ischnopoda caerulca, Sahl., not uncommon on the banks of the Eden, 

 Great Salkeld; Falagria sulcatula, Gr., scarce in flood refuse in Baron 

 Wood, January 30th, 1903; Placusa complanata, Er., abundant in the 

 galleries of Hylophilus piniperda, L., on Scotch fir, this is a very local 

 insect, and I only find it in one small wood near Great Salkeld ; Epipeda 

 plana, Gyll., scarce under bark of dead elm ; Hygronoma dimidiata, 

 Gr., scarce, sweeping rushes and sedges in a bog ; Hetherothops 

 praevia, Er., taken in a cowshed amongst decaying straw, Great 

 Salkeld ; Oligota atomaria, Er., rare, one specimen at grass roots, 

 Great Salkeld, April 3rd, 1905; Quedius longicornis, Kr., rare, one 

 specimen in flood refuse, one specimen from a rabbit burrow, and one 

 specimen from a mole's run, Great Salkeld ; Quedius vexans, Epp., 

 from moles' nests, Great Salkeld, November 21st, 1906 ; Quedius 

 sci t us, Gr., one specimen in a rotten fir log, Edenhall, January 13th, 

 1907 ; Q. iihliteratus, Er., one specimen in moss, Silloth, September 

 20th, 1905 ; Lathrobium terminatuui , Grav., var. immaculatum, Fow., 

 not uncommon in a bog near Great Salkeld, the type is not found in 

 this district; Medon obsoletus, Nord., one specimen in vegetable refuse; 

 Stenus argus, Grav., abundant in a marsh near Penrith; S. aerosus, Er. ; 

 S. annulatus, Crotch, scarce in moss, Wan Fell ; S. niveus, Fauv., 

 abundant sweeping in marshes ; Trogophloeus rivularis, Mots., scarce 

 on the muddy margins of ponds and streams ; Olophrum fuscum, 

 Grav., in moss and at the roots of rushes, not uncommon ; Homalium 

 septentrionis, Thorns., common in dead rabbits; 11. caesum, Gr., var. 

 tricolor, Rey., two specimens in dead leaves; //. gracUicorne, Fairm., 

 scarce beneath dead fir bark, also under birch bark and in fungi 

 on birch; tiapalaraea pygmaea, Pk., one specimen in a fungus on an 

 ash-tree; Agathidium seminulum, L., two specimens in rotten wood; 

 Hydnobius punctatissimus, Steph., one specimen in flood refuse ; 

 Triarthron maerkeli, Schm., one specimen in flood refuse; Cholera 



