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perfect beetles could then be discovered. These latter were in very good 

 condition, many exhibiting the light coloration of immatvu-ity. No doubt they 

 subsequently wander over various plants and adjacent hedges, and I was 

 perhaps fortunate in thiis encountering the imaginal infancy when they were 

 still congregated on what I believe must constitute the food-plant of the 

 species, at any i-ate in this country.— W. E. Sharp, 9, Queen's Eoad, Sovith 

 Norwood: January 5th, 1910. 



Lathrohium mfipenne, Gyll., and other Coleoptera at Delamere Forest. — 

 During the year 1909 I have made several interesting additions to Mr. W. E. 

 Sharp's recent list of Lancashire and Cheshire Coleoptera. In some cases the 

 species in question have been omitted from the above named list, as the original 

 records are very old ones, and have not been confirmed by any other collectors. 

 In Aug-xxst last Mr. J. Collins, of Oxford, called upon me, so we arranged for an 

 expedition to Delamere in search of Lathrohium rufipenne, Gyll. Mr. Collins 

 had previously taken a single specimen of this species at Abbott's Moss, 

 and I had upon several occasions taken it sparingly at Flaxmei'e, about five 

 miles from his locality. We managed to find a dozen specimens between us 

 after a hard day's work, so we were -delighted with the results of our ex- 

 pedition. 



From this and siibsequent visits I have since made to both localities, I 

 have come to the conclusion that this species is probably to be found through- 

 out the whole district of Delamere wherever the conditions are favourable, and 

 that it is confined to the bogs or " mosses." 



L. rufixjenne is a lover of exceedingly wet situations, and is only to be found 

 in Sphagnum gi'owing in the wettest portion of the bogs (though never actually 

 in the water), in places where the srmdew, cranberry, and other characteristic 

 plants abound, and seems to specially prefer the groimd upon which Sphagnum 

 and cranberry gTow mixed together. It is an active insect and leaves the stuff 

 as soon as it has been loosened from the squeezing necessary to partly diy it, so 

 that the presence of the beetle on the collecting sheet is quickly evident. 



Under the same conditions I have found Philonthiis iiigrita, Nordm., to be 

 common at both Flaxmere and Abbott's Moss, as well as Lathrohium termi- 

 natum, Gr., — the variety immaculatum, Fowler, being as common as the normal 

 form — and Actobius cinerascens, Gr., — all new records for Lancashire and Ches- 

 hire. Oxypoda longiuscula, Er., is not uncommon at both localities, and Hyper- 

 aspis repipensis, Herbst, seems to prefer slightly drier conditions. In moss 

 growing under a solitary dwarf j)ine at the edge of a peaty pool I found about 

 twenty specimens of this species. Quedius semiaeneus, Steph., is common, and 

 in drier moss I have taken Quedius attenuatus, Gyll., a species included in 

 Mr. Sharp's list on a single old record from the Lake District of North 

 Lancashire. 



At Flaxmere, in wet Sphagnum growing at the edge of the peaty drains, 

 Agahus affinis, Pk., is not uncommon, but Agahus unguicularis, Th., I only take 

 at the same place witli the water net. Hydroporus umhrosus, GyU., from Flax- 

 mere, is a new record for Cheshire, and liomalota xanthoptera, Stepli., and 

 H. xanthopus, Thorns., do not appear to have previously been recorded from this 

 district. 



