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dead beech ; TiUiis elongatus, including one of the black variety 

 amhidans F., and Leptura scutellata, fairl}'' commonly; and occasional 

 specimens of Scydmaemis exiUs, Cicones variegatus, FJegaderus dis- 

 sectus (nowadays one of the common Forest beetles), TJiymalus Umhatus, 

 Pediacus dermestoides, Melasis huprestoides, Mycetochares hipustulata, 

 Clinocara tetratoma, and other species characteristic of the locality. 

 Tomoxia higuftata was widely distributed, and was met with in large 

 numbers on a standing dead beech, running and flying with great agility, 

 and b}'^ no means easy to secure without damage. One specimen of 

 CoJydium eJongatum, a beetle which in recent years has been taken more 

 freely than of old, was found in the course of our last morning's Avalk, 

 running on a large oak log. The well-known timber-yard at Brocken- 

 hurst produced Fhloeotrya rxifipes rarely, and Laemopldoeus dupUcatus 

 in nmubers, emerging from the cracks in newly-sawn oak butts. My 

 companion found a large 5 example of Atlious rhomheus mider loose 

 beech bark, and I obtained two pupae, one of which shortly afterwards 

 produced a fine J , so dark in colour that at fi.i-st sight I thought I had 

 only the common Melanotus rujipes. Liodes orMcularis, Enicmus 

 festaceiis, and Spliindus duhius were found more or less commonl}"^ in 

 powdery fungus under loose bark. 



A small oak, long known to both of us as one of the few trees in the 

 Forest infested with Cossus, gave us each one specimen of the great prize 

 of our visit, Velleius dilatatus, as well as Tachimis scapularis, Qtiedi^is 

 maurus Sahib, {fageti Thorns.), brevicornis, and siihapicalis Soj, Lath- 

 rohium elongatum var. fraudulentiim, Hister vierdarius, Ep)uraea 

 decemguttata (in numbers) and two or three specimens of an Omalium 

 which Dr. Sharp says is O.Jlorale var. nigrum Grav. 



The hawthorn and hoUy blossom, which had been of ver}'- short 

 duration this year, were practically over on our arrival, but Orsodacna 

 lineola and its var. Iiumeralis were beaten in some numbers from one 

 holly tree which still retained a few flowers. Besides swarms of Lepido- 

 pterous larvae of ordinary kinds, among which the beautiful caterpillar 

 of Polyploca ridens was specially abundant, the oak boughs produced 

 nothing better than an occasional Silpha quadripiinctata or Corymhites 

 metallicus, Avith Rhyiichites piubescens in fair numbers. Polydrust(S 

 ■flavipes, in beautiful fresh condition, came freely off birch with Deporaiis 

 megaceplialus sparingly ; and crab-apple produced Pogonochaerus den- 

 tatus and Phyncliites coeruleus, with AntJionomus pomorum in numbers. 

 Several very small and stoutly built examples of the latter insect proved 

 to be dwarf males of the species, a form neither of us had previously 

 met with. One specimen only of Agrilus viridis was beaten out of an 



