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not net a single beetle. My only remaining ehance seemed to lie in searching the 

 shingle on the margins of the streams, and there, by sheer hard labour, I succeeded 

 in finding a few good things. Only one nest oi Formica rtifa produced any beetles, 

 and three or four species were captured amongst stones on the hill sides. 



The following is a list of my fortnight's captures : — under bark (oak), Carahus 

 violaceus, Pterostichus oblongopunctatus, Leptusa fumida, Quedius xanthopus (8), 

 Jlomalitim ptinctipenne (2), Ceri/lou ferrugineum (6), Scaphidium 4^-maculatum (1), 

 Rhiiiosimus planirostris (1), Tri/podendron domesticum (4); walnut bark, Bossing- 

 ton, Euplectus punctatus (5), Ptinella (two or three species, 54 specimens, not yet 

 determined), Abraus globosus (2) ; poplar bark, Bossington, RhyncMtes conicus (1) and 

 Dorytomus vorax (10). Amongst shingle, &c., on the margins of streams, by flooding, 

 Uydroporiis rivalis (1), Agabus guttatus (1), A. biguttatus ^= foutinalis (1), Helo- 

 phorus ceneipennis (4), HydrcEna gracilis (1), Cercyon pygmcBus (2), Ocalea castanea 

 (3), Homalota cur rax (abundant, to fill up my evenings I set 143 specimens), S. 

 pavens (78 — 44 (J, 34 $ — I never took more than single specimens before in any 

 locality, the proportion of J to ^ specimens also seems remarkable for this species), 

 //. cambrica (3), IT. eximia (2), H. silvicola (1), M. exilis (3), H. aquatica? (4 — 

 this beetle has a somewhat different facies from the aquatica of other localities, and 

 may prove to be another species), H. sordida (I), H. testudinea (1), H. dubia (1 — 

 the generally common S. fungi seemed entirely absent from the district), H. analis 

 occurred only sparingly, MyllcEnia elongata (8), M. brevicornis (6), Quedius riparius 

 (14 — see page 80), Q. maurorufus (1), Q. umbrinus (9), Q. auricomus (I), Philonthus 

 ventralis (1), Uianous coerulescens (plenty), Stenus guttula (sparingly), S. Guyne- 

 meri (plenty), iS. declaratus (1), S. tempestivus (1), Ancyrophorus aureus (very 

 abundant), Lesteva pttbescens (5), L. sicula (1), Ips 4i-guttatus (1 — rather out of its 

 element in wet shingle one would think), Parnus prolifericornis (1), P. auricnlatus 

 (1). I expected to find Bembidia well represented, the conditions being so favoura- 

 ble, but only five or six of the common species turned up ; B. tibiale was fairly 

 numerous, I saw only one B. decorum and two B. rufescens. In a nest of Formica 

 rufa, Oxypoda hesmorrhoa (1), JSotothecta anceps (1), Xantholinus atratus (4), 

 Stilicus orbictdatus (1), Trichopteryx sp. — (3), Cerylon histeroides (4), Monotoma 

 angusticollis (14), M . formicetorum (25), Cartodere elongata (2). Under stones on 

 hill sides, Medon melanocephalus (1), Agriotes sputaior (3), Trachyphlceus scaber 

 (2), T. laticoUis (6 — all on the under-sides of scattered rock-flakes). 



Altogether beetles were remarkable for their absence, and for this reason, as 

 well as the fact that from that district there are few if any records, I have included 

 in my report many species which otherwise might not be considered worthy of 

 mention. My list of captures is redeemed from being absolutely commonplace only 

 by such finds as Quedius riparius, Ancyrophorus aureus and Tracliyphloeus laticoUis, 

 — W. G. Blatch, Encwle, near Birmingham : March Qth, 1896. 



Rhizophagus perforatus in daffodil bulbs.— Aho\xt a month ago a correspondent 

 living near Dublin sent me a specimen of a beetle which he said was destroying his 

 daffodil bulbs. The insect proved to be Rhizophagus perforatus. I doubted if it 

 was really the cause of the injury to the daffodil roots, and suggested that if only 

 one specimen had been found it was probably on the bulb by accident. I have just 

 received a letter saying : " My gardener found numbers of similar ones in the other 



