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H. pygmaea Grr., Mordiford, in flood refuse ; Gyrophaena fasciata Marsli., West 

 Malvern ; G. laevipennis Kv., Colwall in f ungais on elm ; Conosovia immaculatum 

 St., Breinton (Butler) ; Meijacronus cingulatus Mann., Stoke Edith, April, 1912 

 (Wood) ; Mycetoporus splendidus Gr., Fownhope in flood refuse ; Qucdhis cruentus 

 var. virens Rott., this variety has occurred singly on SeagX'r Hill in a rotten 

 beech, at Mordiford in hedge clippings, and at West Malvern in garden rubbish 

 and amongst rotten apples ; Q. fumatiis St., West Malvern, common in dead 

 leaves, Mordiford, in flood refuse ; Ocypus compressus Marsh., rare at Kington 

 and West Malvern ; Philonthws longicornis St., Colwall and West Malvern ; 

 P. discoideus Gr., Ledb\iry in fungus ; Gahrius nigrituhis Gr., common throiigh- 

 out the county ; G. pennatus Sharp, Breinton, not uncommon (Butler), common 

 on the Kiver Monnow, and in Cusop and Olchon Dingles ; G. stipes Sharp, 

 Colwall, Mathon, Haugh Wood and Seager Hill, always rare ; Medon ohsoletus 

 Nordm., West Malvern, not rare in garden refuse, December, 1909 ; Evaesthetus 

 scaber Gr., Colwall, not uncommon ; E. ruficapilliis Lac, Mathon, common ; 

 Stenus morio Gr., Breinton (Butler) ; S. fuscipes Gr., Credenhill (Butler) ; 

 S. picipennis Er., Kenchester (Butler) ; S. picipes St., of general occurrence ; 

 Oxytelus sculptus Gr., Colwall and West Malvern, rare ; 0. inustus Gr., Holme 

 Lacy and Seager Hill by sweeping ; O. clypeonitens Pand., one swept at West 

 Malvern, September, 1911; Trogophloeus corticinus Gr., common; T. elongatulus 

 Er., not uncommon at Stoke Edith, Whitbourne, Mordiford, and Devereux 

 Pools; T. tenellus Hv., one swept on Seager Hill, 15.9.12; Lesteva sharpi'Rye, 

 Cusop and Olchon Dingles, rare ; Homalium caesum Gr., Stoke Edith, West 

 Malvern and Whitbourne, not common ; var. tricolor Rey, West Malvern and 

 Stoke Edith, occasional ; H. gracilicorne Fairm., one swept at Hardwick, 27.8.09 ; 

 Megarthrus affinis Mull., West Malvern, rare ; M. hemipterus 111., Haugh Wood, 

 not uncommon in fungi in September ; Prognatha quadricor nis Kirhy, Eastnor 

 Park, not uncommon under oak bark, 22.3 14. 



Agathidiimi laevigatmn Er., Colwall and Mordiford, very rare, August, 1912 ; 



A. glohosum Muls., Haugh Wood, one in fungus, 15.9.12 ; Gyrtusa pauxilla, Sch., 



rare at Mathon, Stoke Edith, Coddington, Breinton (Butler), Whitbourne and 



Abbeydore ; Colenis dentipes GylL, Mordiford, swept by the River Pentelow, 



-3.8.09 ; Necrophorus ruspator Er., West Malvern, Colwall and Stoke Edith ; 



Necrodes littoralis L., one by the Leech Pool, 29.8.09 ; Choleva cisteloides Pz., 



Cusop (Wood), and Stoke Edith, rare ; Neuraphes angulatus Miill., West Malvern, 



bysweeping; Byf/iiimscuriisiDenn., fairly common; Euplectus duponti Auhe, two 



examples occurred in rotten beech on Seager Hill, August, 1911, which Dr. Joy 



considers to be the true duponti ; Smif-rus fdicornis Fairm., Cusop (Butler) ; 



Nephanes titan Newm., West Malvcn-n, several in a hotbed, September, 1910 ; Ortho- 



perus atomus GylL, abundant in haystacks at Mathon; Dacne humeralis F., 



Cusop, in Boletus; D. rufifrons F., Eaton Bishop, common in I'olyporus 



squamosus ; Hister neglectus Germ., Cusop, one in moss, 11.9.12 ; Gnathoncus 



nannetensis Mars., one in carrion at Stoke Edith (Wood) ; Cartodere elongata 



Cui-t., Eaton Bishop with Dacne rufifrons ; Laemoplilocus fcrrugineus St., common 



under bark at Ledbury and Stoke Edith; Cryptophagus setulosus Stm., of 



general occiu-rence by sweeping ; C. punctipennis Bris., Eaton Bishoi), with Dacne 



rufifrons ; C. dcntatiis Hbst., common ; C. distinguendus Stm., West Malvern, scarce 



in apple room ; Atomaria nigriventris St., West Malvern, Coddington and Devereux 



Pools; A. harani Bris., West Malvern; Mycetophagus qtuulripustulatus L., very 



common in fungi at Eaton Bishop and Whitbourne ; Florilinus musaeorum L., 



Tarrington (Wood). 



(!Z'o be continued). 



