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Ditchling, was found in great numbers among dirty, damp straw in a 

 large shed on September 12tb. 



By beating clematis, elder, and other hedge-row plants, a number 

 of Lathridius aufiulattis, Man., were knocked out, in company with 

 many of its common congener, L. lardarins, DeG. Assiduous work at 

 a cut grass heap, accumulating week by week from the tennis-court, 

 resulted in a few interesting captures. The genus Monotoma was 

 represented by five species, three of which were quite common, M. 

 hrevicullis, Aube., M. picipes, Herbst, and ZIV. lonf/icollh, Gyll., and 

 two much more scarce, ^1/. spinicollis, Aube, and M. quadricollis, Aube. 

 A specimen or two of Mi/niiecoxenus vajwrariorinn, Guer., was also sifted 

 from this grass heap. On September 15th I caught an Aphodius 

 porcux, F., flying over the Clayton Hill Road, no others being found, 

 however, in spite of much searching. Interesting as suggesting one 

 of its food-plants, the capture of Apion affine, Kirby, in very small 

 numbers on Ononis (September 19th) is worth noting. 



From under the bark of a felled pine, riddled by the common 

 Toiniciia and Hi/laste.t, a large number of Hylastes opacns, Er., could 

 have been taken. This is rather interesting, as pines are very few and 

 far between around Ditchling. A walk over to " West Wood," beyond 

 Ditchling Common, on September 18th, led to the discovery of 

 a cossus-iniected oak tree, a large, but not a strong infection. 

 Epinaca decern (jattata, F., and Crijptarcha striyata, F., were the only 

 interesting "goat-species" taken, but from moss oft" the trunk an 

 Anchu)iienus lirens, Gyll., and one Scydmaenus piisilliis, Miill., were 

 shaken out, while from out of the fairly solid wood a few larvs of 

 Haplocneinu.i iniiiressns, Marsh, were dug out. My friend Mr. Cribb 

 took a few imagines from this same tree earlier in the year. Later in 

 the same day, I spotted another eo.ss/(.s-oak on Ditchling Common, and 

 the best capture from this tree was a nice series of Ciyptarclia iinperialis, 

 F. Homaliam planum, Payk., also occurred to me here. A few walks 

 over to the coast, to work around Brighton and Rottingdean, resulted 

 in some local forms being taken. Under stones Zabrus gibhus, F., a 

 series, Licinas depressing, Payk., five or six, Amara consiilaris, Duft., 

 and a few Syncalypjta liirsuta, Sharp, were found. Shaking out grass 

 roots near the edge of the cliffs produced, amongst many other more 

 common beetles, Ocypus pedator, Grav., SilpJia obscura, L., in numbers, 

 and a few Opatrum. September 3rd, my father and I went over to 

 Balcombe Forest, principally after Lepidoptera. The day was not by 

 any means without profit among the Coleoptera as well, however. 



The most choice capture was a fine example of the blue form of 

 Byctiscns betideti, F., beaten from birch ; the lateness of the date points 

 to this being one of a second brood, a fact already noted in the life- 

 history of B. popidi. 



Khiiis vulkmari, Panz., was found in great numbers on the lower 

 surface of submerged stones and brick-bats in a quickly flowing stream ; 

 several often could be seen upon one stone. On the bank of the 

 L. B. and S. C. Ry., just after Balcombe Tunnel, I tubed a few 

 Notiopliihis. On capture I did not worry about their specific identity, 

 wanting any members of the genus to replace old specimens in my collec- 

 tion. On examination, all four of them turned out to be the rare N. 

 quadriyuttatiis, Dej., the arrangement of the four punctures, except in 

 one specimen, not symmetrically including a rectangle, the lower 



