38 [February, 



(Newcastle), various Dermestes, Attagenus, Gibhium, Anohium paniceum, L., Hhizo- 

 pertha, Lyctus canalicidatus, F. (Hartlepool), Triholium ferrugineum, ¥., Gnatho- 

 cerus, Palorus ratzebiirgi, Wiss., Alphitohius diaperinus, Pz., A. piceus, 01. (Hartle- 

 pool), Bruchus pisi, L. (Newcastle), B. rufim.anus, Boh,, Murmidius ovalis, Beck 

 (Benton), Lucanus cervits, L. (Sunderland, S and ? ), Pissodes notatus, F. (from 

 Scotland ?), &c. 



Truly this is a land of refuge for poor cast out foreigners ! 



The Groves, Winlaton-on-Tyne : 

 Novemher 9th, 1905. 



Some BucJcinghamshire Coleoptera. — North of that great bend of the Thames 

 which runs up from Maidenhead round to Reading, the outliers of the Chiltern 

 hills come down in complicated undulations almost to the river valley. Here are 

 repeated tlie familiar features of the North Downs — the steep, hot slopes, the dry, 

 brookless coombs, the rough, scanty vegetation of the chalk — its viper's bugloss, its 

 St, John's- wort and masses of marjoram. But these hills are crowned in all their 

 heights and covered over half their slopes by detached and frequent beech woods ; 

 the trees supply the staple industry of the district whose centre is High Wycombe, 

 and in the form of kitchen chairs are exported over half the globe. These woods 

 are generally traversed by numerous footways ; gamekeepei's and enclosures are in- 

 frequent, and the whole region appeals with considerable force to the itinerant 

 Entomologist. I was so fortunate as to spend a few days among these valleys last 

 year, and although, of course, their Coleopterous fauna is very similar to that of 

 other chalk districts, a record of some of the less common species captured may 

 not be without interest, as they have been, so far as I am aware, unexplored. 



My collecting was limited to a day or two in March and in September, and 

 with the exception of a little sweeping on the latter occasion, was restricted almost 

 entirely to sifting dead leaves in the woods and to cutting and shaking out the 

 thick moss which grew by the sides of them. 



The first process was not unremunerative, the dead beech leaves lay in thick 

 masses in the hollows, and sifting them over a sheet was an easy task. Besides 

 common species which I do not enumerate, Badister sodalis was abundant, Choleva 

 wilJcini, very common ; C. spadicea and C. angustata, rave. Among the Staphy- 

 linidas, Oxypoda spectabills, Mycetoporus lucidus, Euryporus picipes (which I had 

 never before taken), Quedius lateralis, Q. picipes, Q. fumatus, Philonthus funii- 

 gatiis, and P. umhratilix, perhaps deserve mention, Medon hruniieus also was very 

 abundant among these leaves. 



Moss along the borders of the woods and on the banks of the deep cut lanes 

 produced Lehia chlororephala, Pselaphus heisei and Bryaxis fossulata (commonly), 

 Bythinus burrelli (rarely), Cerylon faqi, Subcoccinella 2^-punctata, Mniophila mits- 

 corum (frequent), Apion eheninum, A. fiUrostre, A. Jlavimanum, Liosoma ohlongu- 

 lum (rarely), Ty chins Jun ecus, and TrachypMoeus squamulatus ; here also unex- 

 pectedly occurred a specimen of Lathridius hergrothi, perhaps introduced in the 

 seed corn with which the adjacent field had been sown. 



