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through a wood joins the road, and a male of Homalota scapularisfi&hlb., 

 occurred at the end of May in a grass field close by, along with a pair 

 of the red variety of Amphicyllis c/Jobus, F. (var. ferrugineus, Sturm). 

 SracTiytarsusfasciatus, "Forst., one specimen beaten out of an Urn- 

 hellifer beneath an elm, this species being new to me. Phytcecia 

 cylindrica, L., occurred in some numbers in long grass by the corner 

 of a copse, and one subsequently by the road side, but I refrained 

 from really searching for this scarce Longicorn. Hedobia impcrialis, 

 L., four specimens beaten or swept singly at some distance from one 

 another, is also new to me here. T failed this year to take either 

 Clytits mysticus, L., of which one specimen occurred last year, or 

 CaUidium alni, L., of which I then took several. Bruclnm cisti, F., 

 and Rhynchites conicus, Illig., occurred in 1900, but were not to be 

 found in 190]. 



Other beetles to be mentioned are —the variety of Bruchus ato- 

 marius with black legs ; Malachius rnarginellus, 01., two specimens in 

 July, which I think must have been blown or driven by the drought 

 from the Whitstable district, from which it has previously been re- 

 corded ; Conopalpus testaceus, 01., one swept in July in a field which 

 had been allowed to go out of cultivation ; Sister bimaculatus, L., 

 near Eastling Mill, in May ; Silpha littoralis,~L. ; Tropiphorus carinatus, 

 llorbst ; Mordellistena hrwinea,T?.,&\\ taken singly in July ; M. abdo- 

 minalis, F., common in 1900, occurred sparingly ; Metoecus paradoxus, 

 L., one on the windowsill inside my bedroom on September 1st ; Liei- 

 nus depressns, Payk., one running on a path on May 12th. I took a 

 specimen of L. silphoides,\r\ October, 7iear Chatham. Quedius brevis, 

 Er., in the Blean Woods, in ants' nests, always in logs of wood in the 

 nests, September 7th, common. Dytiscus circiimflexus, F. (12), and 

 Hi/drophilus picrus, L. (one <^), September 8th, in a pond in Sheppey, 

 just across Elmley Ferry. In the autumn fungus on decayed ash 

 produced Miicctopliagus piceun, F. HypopTiloeus bicoJor, 01., occurred 

 under bark of dead ash, having evidently bred on fungus growing 

 there. 



In Sharsted Wood Gis micans, Herbst, turned up in fungus on a 

 fallen birch ; Homalota marcida, Er., occurred in all the localities in 

 which I searched, including Oobham Park ; and Triphyllus puncfatus, 

 F., was widely distributed, but scarce. 



Passing to Hymcnoptera, bees were scarce here in 1901, but my 

 list of Antliopltila for this district now includes above 100 species. 

 Among the wasps, Calici/rqus hyalinatus, F., and Odt/nerus trimargi- 

 natus, Zett., three specimens on August 26th, on wild mignonette, and 



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