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Panacjxus 4-p^isUilaU(s, one turned up in the sweeping-net, much to 

 my surprise, at Tubney, on September 15th ; Harpahis obscurus, this fine 

 species occiirs not rarely in stone-pits near Kirtlington, Oxon, in April and 

 again in Augiist ; Hydroponis discretus, in a stream near Elsfield; U marginatus, 

 one specimen in standing water at Tubney, July 31st ; Helophorus arvernicus, 

 one in river-refiise at King's Weir on the Isis above Oxford; Aleochara fumata, 

 one in a tuft on the river-bank near Eynsham, in January ; Oxypoda spectahilis, 

 a fine specimen swept at Wytham Park, October 14th ; Microglossa gentilis, in a 

 starling's nest in a felled elm at Ferry Hinksey, in company with Quedms brevi- 

 cornis ; Homalota csesula, common at roots of herbage, &c., in sandy places at 

 Tubney ; H. gemina, laticeps, exilis, and clancula, found not rarely in a little 

 swamp near Islip by Mr. G. C. Champion and myself. May 15th ; Mycetoporus 

 punches, by sweeping at Tubney, September 2nd ; Philonthus lucens, rarely in 

 tufts at Cowley and Wood Eaton in early spring ; Medon obsoletus, flying over 

 a manure-heap at Wood Eaton in company with Monotonia longicollis ; Stenus 

 solutus, in tufts at King's Weir in January, not rare ; Honialiuni salicis, one 

 example of this rare species by evening sweeping near Wood Eaton, May 31st. 

 Anisotonia anglica. Rye, by sweeping at Wytham Park (in company with 

 A. cinnamoniea as before), October 1st ; A. brx^nnea, both sexes by sweeping at 

 Tubney, September loth, and again taken there by Mr. Tomlin and myself on 

 October 9th ; the same productive locality also yielded A. curta and Triarthron 

 markeli, both singly, on September 15th ; A. triepkei, not rarely at Tubney in 

 September, also a fine S at Boar's Hill, Berks, on August 4th ; A. rugosa, again 

 very sparingly in October at Wytham Park, where Agaricophagus cephalotes was 

 locally quite common at the beginning of October, and Hydnobius punctatisshnus 

 (almost all of the black form) by no means infrequent ; Colon viennense and ser- 

 ripes,not rare by sweeping short herbage {Nepeta glechoma,&c.) towards sunset at 

 the end of May, in a small coppice near Wood Eaton ; C. dentipes, both sexes at 

 Wytham Park in October ; Euthia schaumi, taken in abundance in the grounds 

 of Wolvercote Paper Mill on the evening of September 9th, by sweeping weeds 

 and rough grass ; Thalycra sericea, by evening sweeping at Boar's Hill, 

 Aiigust 4th ; Meligethes imibrosus, in abundance on the flowers of cat-mint 

 (Nepeta cataria) growing in roadside hedges between Abingdon and Tubney ; 

 Pediaciis der^nestoides, under larch-hark at Besselsleigh, May 29th ; Lsemophloeus 

 ater, sparingly in broom stems at Chawley, Berks, in April ; Cryptophagus rufi- 

 cornis, in faggots at Wytham Park, March 27th ; Atoniaria fimetarii, in abun- 

 dance near Wolvercote diu-ing July, by sweeping weeds in a very restricted 

 space, and accompanied sparingly hy Euthia scydnisenoides; Aphaiiisticus pusillust 

 one by sweeping at Wytham Park, October 2nd; Corymbites metallicus, in 

 plenty at the end of June by sweeping under willows at Marston Ferry, also at 

 King's Weir ; Coenocara bovistx, by sweeping at Tubney in autumn ; Donacia 

 impressa, rarely on rushes at King's Weir, in July ; Cryptocephalus frontalis, 

 one by sweeping near Yarnton, July 1st; ^nisoKT/a/'wscwia, one at Tubney on 

 September 15th, and one taken by Mr. G. C. Champion at Wytham Park, 

 October 2nd, in each instance by sweeping under beech trees ; Abdera quadri- 

 fasciata again occurred not rarely on a dead standing beech in Wytham Park, 

 where Mr. Donisthorpe and I first foiind it on July 5th, 1908 ; Sitaris niuralis, 



