NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1872. 3 



Cortlcaria cylindrica and Trachyphlceus spinimanus com- 

 mouly (the latter at roots of HeliautJiemum vidgare, on the 

 chalk hills), near Chatham ; Mycctoporus nanus, Stnphylhius 

 latebricola, Colon Zebei, SaJpingus cErafus, Platytai'sus 

 setulosus and Apion annulipes at Caterham ; Homalota 

 elcgantula, Stejius lustrator, Si/nc/iita juglandis {recorded 

 as mediolaneiisis), Trachys troglodytes, Lcsmophlceus bi- 

 maculatus, Diploccelus fagi, Microrhagus, At/ious rhom- 

 beus, Tychius 6-punctatus, and other good things, especially 

 Dasytcs niger in quantity, in the New Forest, near Brocken- 

 hurst(Mr. O. Jansou, at the same place, but with vret weather, 

 has also found many of these sjjecies); and he has also dis- 

 covered the head-quarters of Baridius scolopaceus in the 

 Isle of Sheppy, having taken many specimens by sweep- 

 ing Atriplex portulacoides and other salt-marsh plants in 

 August. 



To the Rev. H. S. Gorham have occurred Bembidiuni 

 Ai-pustulatum and Starmii, and Stenits morio (hitherto 

 almost unique as British), near Horsham ; Athous difformis 

 (one of the very rarest British insects, and of wdiich the 

 $ is figured on our Frontispiece), Saprinus vii^escens (feed- 

 ing on the larvce of its likeness, Phcedon cochlearicB, on 

 Avater-cress), Stenus major, Ceuthorhynchideus hepatlcus, 

 Telmatophiliis sparganii and brevtcollis, (both of which, 

 ■with Bagous blnodulus, Gyri7ius Suffriani, and other good 

 things, have occurred to Dr. Sharp and Mr. E. Saunders 

 near Deal), at Eastry, near Sandwich (where, and not near 

 Maidstone, as recorded in the last "Annual," the quan- 

 tities of Omias pellucidus therein mentioned were found) ; 

 Myrmedonia Haivorfhi at Southend ; and Stenus palustris 

 and major again, Ptinus subpilosus, Stilicus Jragilis, 

 Quedius truncicola, Homalium salicis, CeutJwrhynchus 

 urticcB and suturellus at Bearsted, near Maidstone. Mr. 



b2 



