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COLEOPTERA IN HEREFORDSHIRE (III). 

 BY .T. R. LE B. TOMLIN, M.A., F.E.S. 



The first and second papers of tliis series appeared in vol. xlv, 

 pp. 56 and 252, of this Magazine ; and it may be well to note that 

 only the former of these two papers is indexed under the county 

 heading. The notes below refer almost exclusively to captures in 1909. 

 Since the publication of Part II, I have to record a fine specimen of 

 Oxypoda spectahilis, Miirk., from a mole's nest at Tan-ington, taken on 

 January 3rd last. 



Leptmus testacexis, Miill., LedbiTry, "West Malvern and Tarrington ; at the 

 last two places it occtirred in mole's nests which had passed by reversion to 

 field-mice : Clamhus armadillo, de G., and C. jmhescens, Redt., common on a 

 species of Ag-aric in <an oat-field in the Woolhope district ; C. mimdus, Stm., 

 common and very large in flood refuse at Symonds Yat. : Agatliidium nicjri- 

 penne, Kng., Stoke Edith woods under beech bark : Anisotoma parvula, Sahl., 

 one swept on the Great Doward: AmpJiicylUs globus, F., West Malvern.- 

 Cholera intermedia, Kr., West Malvern, rare in moles' nests ; C. spadicea, Stm., 

 Cvisop Dingle, in moss : Bryaxis hmmatica, Reich., Great Doward ; B. impressa, 

 Panz., not uncommon in marshy ground at Mathon : TricJionyx sulcicollis 

 Reich., one swept at Tan-ington on Avignst 3rd : Scymnus minimus, Ross, one 

 swept at West Malvern : Endomychus coccineus, L., bred from a Polyporus in 

 Stoke Wood: Paromalus flavicornis, Hbst., Kerne Bridge, in Polyporus: Micro- 

 peplus porcatus, Pk., rare at Bromyard and West Malvern : Micrurula melanoce- 

 phala, Marsh., Cusop : Pocadius ferrugineus, F., widely distributed and common : 

 Meligethes lumharis, Stm., Mathon on Angelica flowers : Ips 4<-punctata, Hbst., 

 Devereux Pools (one) : Melanophthalma similata, Gylh, on spruce in several 

 localities ; very common in Abbeydore Churchyard : Dlphyllus lunatus, F., 

 Abxmdant at Pownhope in its usual habitat : Antheropliagus nigvicornis, F., odd 

 specimens at Mathon and Cusop ; A. pallens, 01., ditto at Mathon, Cusop, and 

 on the Doward : Cryptophagus subdepressus, Gyll., vide Ent. Mo. Mag., 1909, p. 215 : 

 Paramecosoma melanocephalum, Hbst., common in flood refuse at the foot of the 

 Great Doward : Atom,aria munda, Er., West Malvern, in a cellar ; A. elongatula, 

 Er., one swept at Abbeydore : Georyssus pygmseus, F., not imeommon on the 

 banks of the River Teme : Macronychus quadrituberculatus, Miill., inde Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., 1910, p. 15 : Potaminus substriattis, Miill., common with the last in 

 September. 



AphodAus borealis, Gyll., Mathon, not uncommon in August ; A. zenkeri. 

 Germ., Stoke Edith Park, where there used to be deer, and Great Doward; 

 A. sticticus, Panz., one of the commonest AjjJiodii in the county ; A. ohliteratus, 

 Panz., rare at Stoke Edith ; A. erraticus, L., Leech Pool and Kerne Bridge ; 

 A. rufescens, F., Fownhope and Devereux Pools ; A. depressus, Kug., Cusoj). 



Melasis biiprestoides, L., Stoke Edith, in beech-wood. 



Rhagonycha fuscicornis, 01., rare at Mathon : Malthodes minimus var. margi- 



