298 THE entomologist's record. 



the most southern locality for the species. Tropiphorus carinatus (i), 

 beaten from birch ; Polydrusiis ffucans, Sitones crinitus, on clover ; 

 Hypera trili7ieata (2), in moss in winter; Orthochcetes seiiger (i), by 

 sweeping ; Errithinus fiereis, on Carex ; E. scirrhosus, at the base of 

 the leaves of Sparganiiwi ramo$um, the parenchyma of which they were 

 devouring ; evidently this is the foodplant ; Orchestes avcllance, scarce 

 on oak ; Tychius squamulatus, a few; T. lineahdus (i), by sweeping; 

 Cionus pulchellus^ fairly common with C. hortidanus and C. scropJmlaricB, 

 on Scrophularia nodosa and aq2iatica^ I bred a fair number of each 

 species by collecting the little hemispherical cocoons, which are pro- 

 minent on the foodplant ; Gymnetron pascuorum, in clover field ; 

 Mtarus grammis, rare on CaJ/ipanula glomcrata^ on chalky ground ; 

 M. campanula, occurring with the preceding ; Orobitis cyaiieus, rare, by 

 sweeping; Ceuthorrhynchus asperifoliarum (2); C. chalybmts, on chalky 

 pasture ; Ceuthorrhynchus horridus, sparingly on thistles ; Apion con- 

 quens (2), on Matricaria; A. atomariutn, in moderate numbers on 

 Thynms vulgaris, but difficult to get ; A. pallipes, common on Mercu- 

 rialis ; A. ononis ; A. loti and A. livescerum, sweeping on chalky ground ; 

 A. waltoni, common in several places on the chalk ; A. pudescens, a few 

 with the preceding. All the above Apions occurred during July and 

 August. Rhy7tchites ophthahnicus (i), on hazel; R. minutus (2), also 

 on hazel. Attelabus curculionoides, on oak. Apoderus coryli (3), on 

 hazel. Hylesinus oleiperda (2), under bark of ash ; Xylocleptis bispinus, 

 common in old clematis bushes ; Bruchus cisti, occurred in moderate 

 numbers on Helianthemufn. The Longicornia were not at all well 

 represented. A few Aromia moschafa were found early in August, 

 sunning themselves on the willows, their presence being made known 

 by the agreeable scent which they produce ; not, by the way, very much 

 like musk ; Fogonocherus hispidus and F. bideniatus, a few of each 

 beaten from old hawthorn bushes. Phytophaga. — -Donacia bidens, fairly 

 common on Potaffiogeton in ponds on the hills ; D. sparganii, a single 

 specimen by sweeping on the canal bank ; Z>. typhcB, not common, in an 

 old moat ; Z>. setnicuprea, abundant on the canal bank ; D. lemnt?, rare 

 on Sparganium : D. afflnis, fairly plentiful, in a moat : I took the greater 

 number by searching at the base of leaves of a Carex. The two com- 

 mon species, D. linearis and D. sericea, were plentiful in many parts of 

 the district ; Lema puncticollis, on thistles : Crioceris asparagi, was 

 common in a friend's garden ; Cryptocephalus aureolus, common in the 

 flowers of Ranunculus repens at first, later in the blossoms of Hieracium 

 pilosella ; Chrysomela varians and C. hypericin both species in all stages 

 on Hypericum hyperici was by far the more plentiful ; Gonioctena vimi- 

 nalis, rare on sallow ; Adimonia caprcea (2) ; A. sanguinea, on hawthorn 

 blossom ; Galeruca sagitiaria;, common in marshy ground, by sweeping, 

 and hybernating in stems of dead reeds, sometimes as many as seven or 

 eight in one stem ; G. viburni, on Viburnum opulus ; Hermeophaga 

 mercurialis, on Mercurialis perennis ; Haltica pusilla, occurred freely 

 on the chalk downs ; Hippuriphila mooderi, in moss gathered from a 

 marshy meadow ; Epitrix atropce, very local but plentiful on Atropa 

 belladonna, the leaves of which were riddled by the insect ; Mantura 

 maithewsi, on Helianthemum, this is a sluggish member of the Zr«///V/^^; 

 Batophila rubi ; Aphthona venustula, in the thick part of a wood on 

 Euphorbia amygdaloides ; A. atratula, in moss at roots of Thy?nus in 



