150 THE entobiologist's record. 



choice little beetle. On May 19th I noticed a few Teleplwrus fuscaa, 

 L., crawling over thistles in a meadow, but conld not find many of it. 

 On this day I was also pleased to take some ''''Ptiniis (jermannR, F., in 

 an old gate post inhabited by Codiosoma spadi.r, Herbst. On April 

 28th, among broken rush and sedge refuse trapped at the end of one of 

 the ditches, 1 found a specimen of hJaemonia ciirtisi, Lac; subsequent 

 work here, both on this occasion and on other visits, only produced a 

 few more specimens, until May 15th. On this day, however, after 

 finding five specimens by casual search among this ditch debris, I 

 made a detailed examination of the neighbouring ditches and ponds 

 for its toodplant, and I soon found a large dug-out pond, in which 

 Fota))ioi/('t(in pertiiiatiis was growing in profusion ; from the first few 

 handfuls of which, wrung out and dried, I took quite a sufficient series 

 oi the Ha ejiionia. When waiting for the "up" train from Higham 

 on my last visit, I noticed several plants of Ballnta nifira with the 

 leaves riddled by innumerable Lonfiitarsiis ballotac, Marsh. Litoflacti/his 

 leiicoff aster, Marsh, I found very rarely, both in the water net and at 

 roots of aquatic plants. The genus Bof/tiiis is tolerably represented in 

 the ditches of Gravesend. Dr. Nicholson first stimulated me to work 

 at them by taking '''B. nodiilnsiis, Gyll., among heaps of reed refuse 

 more early in the year. Very kindly he showed me the exact spot 

 whence his specimens came, but on that outing I failed to find the 

 beetle. May 15th found me at the spot again — this time by hauling 

 out large masses of "water-weed," and laying them on sheets of brown 

 paper, I managed to detect, very much to my delight, two or three of 

 this fine Bai/oiis. Other members of the genus taken at one time and 

 another, during these two months, were : — B. anjillarfii^, Gyll., 

 B. liiiiosits, Gyll., B. tempestiviis, Herbst., ■'B. frit, Herbst., and F>. 

 glabrirostru, Herbst. 



Species marked with an asterisk are not recorded from Gravesend 

 in Canon Fowler's work. 



Coleoptera noted in the Home Counties during 1912. 



By HEREWAED C. DOLLMAN, F.E.S. 

 On May 31st Mr. H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe came over and 

 suggested to me a day's beetle-hunting in Eichmond Park. Our 

 principal quarry was to be Trinodes hirtus, F., of which I had 

 previously secured one perfect example in the Park, and he and I 

 together on another occasion, a larva. [The latter now meta- 

 morphosed into a well-matured imago.] After removing, and tapping 

 over paper, a considerable amount of very promising " cob-wenby " 

 oak-bark, we were each rewarded with one specimen of Trmodes. I 

 was very interested in seeing some dozen imagines (mostly c? J ) of 

 Tiresias nerra, F., for never before had I seen anything but the larva 

 in a wild state. They were mostly under the more loosely attached 

 pieces of oak-bark, among the dry webby accumulations, in just such 

 situations as the larv;e frequent. A few were noticed, however, 

 crawling on the outside of the bark. Mr. Donisthorpe found a small 

 patch of HoasKs infection on one of these oaks ; and here we found 

 C'ri/ptop/iaf/iis sranicnit, L., ab. patriielis, Stm., some dozen specimens, 

 with its type-form commonly enough. Cryptarchus striyata, F., was 



