192 [Aug.ist. 



(S). When a larva has been named and the imago subsequently described under a 

 different name, priority to be given to the description of the imago, the 

 larval name being treated as MS. and cited in brackets, on the grounds that 

 the description of the larva not being applicable to the imago, it was im- 

 possible for the describer of the imago to know that the species had been 

 already named. 



Merton Hall, Thetford : 



June Uh, 1895. 



THE NEW FOREST IN MAY. 

 BY CLAUDE MORLEY, F.E.S., and ERNEST ELLIOTT, F.I. Inst. 



No article in the whole of last year's Ent. Mo. Mag. was, probably, 

 more interesting to Coleopterists than that upon their month's col- 

 lecting in the New Forest by Mr. Champion and Dr. Sliarp in the 

 October number. So interesting indeed was it to us that we then and 

 there fixed upon May 16th as a good date to begin a fortnight's 

 entomologizing over the same ground. The first week was very dull 

 and cool throughout England, and particularly unproductive at Brocken- 

 hurst ; but from the 21'th to the 30th, when we returned to town, the 

 sun shone radiantly, and things were abroad in numbers. 



Taking the Coleoptera in something like their proper order, the only Oeodephaga 

 at all worth mentioning was Acupalpiis exiguus, var. luridus, which was swept from 

 a swamp on the 28tli. The Hydradephaga were few in number and common in 

 quality, such as iZ^firoporM* «iej?jno»M««, which swarmed with Agahus chalconotus,&LC. 

 Oymnusa brevicoUis is the first good insect in the list ; a single specimen was swept 

 with the Acupalpus. Nothing nearer Velleius than Quedius mesomelinus occurred 

 on sugar, and a second {\n,v. fageti?) was beaten from hawthorn blossom. Leisto- 

 strophus mttrinus was common with six species of Philonthi in a dead foal. The Steni 

 were scarce, and we only saw pallitarsis, nitidiusculus, pallipes, and bifoveolatus. 

 Anisotoma calcarata was not rare on flowers of Cardamine pratensis. Necrodes 

 littoralis was abundant in a dead foal, twenty-seven specimens were bottled one 

 after another on (he 30tli. Silpha 4!-ptinctata was very scarce, only two or three 

 specimens, beaten from oak, being taken. One specimen of Ips 4-gidfaia turned up 

 under beech bark. From the dead stump of an oak on tlie 29th, a single Thymalus 

 limbatus was taken. Aphodii were very abundant in horse and cow dung, and we 

 took erraticus, hamorrhoidalis, depressus, ater, and many generally common species. 

 Geotrupes Typhceus was met with during the first day or two, and then disappeared 

 entirely, the most diligent search only showing one dead S ■ The best insect we 

 took, and the one for which the excursion was principally made, was Anthaxia 

 nitidula, three specimens only turned up however, all beaten from hawthorn blossoni, 

 less of which throughout the country there has seldom been. We entirely concur 

 with our predecessors' opinion that this species is rare, and decidedly local — but how 

 beautiful is it, shining as it docs like an emovald in the setting of the white-lined 



