1906.] 157 



their roots, but probably a great deal of the peaty earth has been 

 burnt away at one time or another, when the bracken and furze has 

 been set alight. 



The Gardiophorus recorded by Mr. Champion under the name 

 C. rufipcs, Fourc, from Eenfrewshire [Ent. Mo. Mag., xiii, p. 227, 

 (1877)], belongs to the same species ; but as there was probably some 

 mistake about the actual origin of this specimen, C. erichsoni is 

 practically an addition to the British list. 



The following is a short translation of Buysson's description of 

 C. erichsoni, taken from his recently finished work on the " Elate- 

 rides " (pp. 318, et seq.) : — 



Oblong, rather depressed ; black, rather shinine;, without any leaden or bronze 

 reflection ; pubescence very fine and scanty, brown on the upper side ; head finely 

 and thickly punctured ; antennae black, longer in male than in female ; thorax 

 slightly longer than broad, rather finely and thickly punctured ; elytra a little 

 broader than thorax, much attenuated behind, with well marked and strongly 

 punctured striae ; interstices flat, thickly and finely punctured j legs reddish-testa- 

 ceous ; tarsi black or brown. Length, 7-9 mm. 



Bradfield : June, 1906. 



FURTHER NOTES ON THE COLEOPTERA OF THE OXFORD 



DISTRICT. 



BY J. J. WALKER, M.A., E.N., F.L.S. 



The following species of CoJeoptera, taken by me (except when 

 otherwise stated) within five or six miles of Oxford since the date of 

 my previous paper on the same subject (Ent. Mo. Mag., Ser. 2, vol. 

 xvi, p. 180) appear to be worthy of record. 



Cychrus rostratus, occasionally under old timber and in sandpits ; Panagaeus 

 quadripustulatus, taken not rarely at Tubney by Mr. W. Holland, and sparingly by 

 Mr. Gr. C. Champion and myself; Licinus silphoides, taken under stones at Elsfield 

 by Mr. W. Collins, of the Hope Department, University Museum ; O'Odes helopioides, 

 rarely, and Bradycelhis placidusy plentifully, in wet tufts of grass, in winter, at 

 Yarn ton ; Sarpalus azitreus var. similis, Dej., in sandpit at Cumnor j Pterostichus 

 anthracinus and P. insequalis, sparingly in damp spots ; Lehia chlorocephala, rather 

 common in tufts of grass in winter; Dromius agilis, not rare under loose bark, 

 Bagley Wood. 



Aleochara tristis, sparingly in sheep-dung, Wytham Park; Phloeopora corticalis, 

 in dry fungus at Water Eaton, one example taken by Mr. Gr. C. Champion ; Calo- 

 dera riparia, in tufts at Yarnton, very rare ; Homalota csesula, two or three 

 examples of this coast species at roots of herbage at Tubney, October ; H. splendens, 

 one example in a sand-pit at Cumnor, taken by Mr. Gr. C. Champion, May 28th, 1906 ; 

 H. dilaticornis, by evening sweeping at Elsfield, one specimen, June 25th, 1905. 



