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*OcypuS ATER Grav. Bovisand; Batten; Millbrook Creek, in some 
numbers; Tregantle. Shaldon, de la Garde. Looe, Vict. Hist. 
Corn. 
*PHILONTHUS CRUENTATUS Gmel. Batten and probably all along the 
coast. 
*P. PUNCTUS Grav. Slapton Ley (where it was first discovered by Mr. 
Wollaston) in May and June, in sundry years. G. C. Champion, 
August-September, 1907, very rarely. Mr. Bridgman’s record in 
Yowler is an error, although he looked for it continuously for some 
years, as he told me, in lat., Oct., 1897. 
yCarius FuUCICOLA Curtis. In decaying seaweed; as a rule, local and 
rare ; abundant with us at Batten and Jennycliff, Millbrook Creek, 
Tregantle. Dawlish district, one record by Mr. Rendel. A large- 
headed form of the male occurs commonly. In fine specimens the 
head is as wide as apex of elytra. 
{C. XANTHOLOMA Grav. All around the coast, very common. 
Var. vARtoLosus Shp. Not uncommon with the type form in the 
Plymouth district ; Shaldon, de la Garde. 
Var. VARIEGATUS Er. Batten, Jennycliff, etc., not uncommon. 
TC. sERicEUS Holme. Generally distributed with the above, but much 
less abundant. Shaldon, de la Garde. 
Nore.—The Cafit may be found almost throughout the year and 
larvee with them. 
*SCOPHUS MINIMUS Er, (RYEI Woll.). In April, 1897, in numbers at 
Slapton Ley, its only British locality, under smallish flat stones 
amongst herbage several yards from the edge of the Ley towards 
the sea, but I have not again met with it. Mr. Wollaston took it 
originally in May, 1869. G. C. Champion, August-September, 1916. 
{MEDON POCOFER Peyr. Batten, two specimens only ; Torcross, one only 
in May, 1901. ~ 
7M. rrpicota Kr. Batten, July, 1890, two in February, 1897, and in the 
following May I secured it in quantity in rotting seaweed at Jenny- 
cliff ; August, 1902, one only on the beach beyond Bovisand. 
*ASTENUS (SUNIUS) FILIFORMIS Latr. Whitsand Bay, single specimens 
occasionally ; Tregantle; Downderry, August, 1900, six examples, 
and at various times since ; Bigbury Bay, two specimens, May, 1911. 
Dawlish, one only, de la Garde. 
*STENUS ATRATULUS Er. Downderry, August, 1905, E. A. Newbery and 
myself. 
{BLEpIUS specTABILIS Kr. One specimen, Dawlish, de la Garde. 
