INJURIES BY GROUND BEETLES. 83 
description of three of the four kinds of Ground Beetles found at the 
Lincolnshire Strawberries for general purposes. 
Of the fourth kind, Calathus cisteloides, Panz., I did not find any 
samples in the specimens sent during the past season. This is a good 
deal smaller than the above-mentioned kinds, being from about a third 
to half of an inch in length; colour black, with horns and legs 
brownish-red. It is of the same general shape as the other Ground 
Beetles ; but it may be distinguished to some degree by the fore body 
being slightly narrowed in front, sinuated behind, and the hinder 
angles rounded off. The wings abortive, or imperfect. 
In Mr. Rice’s notes of the infestation, he mentions (p. 85, speaking 
of the only kinds of beetles found) that, besides (1) the brown, and (2) 
the black (i. e., the H. ruficornis and the two species of Pterostichus), 
there was a third kind, which ‘‘seemed to be a small edition of No. 1.’’ 
This I presume to be the cisteloides, as its reddish or brownish legs and 
horns would give it a strong resemblance to the H. ruficornis in 
“small edition,” and this species was properly identified as being 
one of the Strawberry attackers of 1894. 
It will be seen in the second report of observations sent by Mr. W. 
Rice on July 24th (given after that immediately following), that this 
special beetle, the smallest of the kinds found at the fruit, appeared 
later on in July in great numbers. 
The first information sent me during the past season of the re- 
appearance of this destructive attack to Strawberry fruit was given in 
the following letter, written June 23rd by Mr. Joseph Smith, of Wood- 
borough, to Mr. Dunstan, and forwarded on to myself:—‘‘ We are 
having a good crop of Strawberries this year. We worked the land, 
and used soot and salt, and worked it well in, according to your orders, 
but we have a large quantity of beetles. They are eating the fruit 
fearfully this week ; the first week was not so bad. We think the pest 
is worse than last year; and others are suffering quite as much as we 
are at this present time. 
‘“We have put flesh down, and killed a large quantity in a morning; 
but they are still very numerous, and we are very anxious to know if 
there is anything else you can recommend to us.’’—(J. 8.) 
On the 8rd of July, Mr. M. J. R. Dunstan, Director of Technical 
Instruction for the County Council of Notts, wrote me further on the 
subject, with specimens accompanying :—‘‘ I am sending you a tin of 
the beetles which attacked the Strawberries, a bunch of the attacked 
fruit, and a report made by Mr. Rice on visiting the field yesterday. 
There seems an opinion that the beetles appear where the town 
manure—a general collection of refuse from ashpits, &c.—has been 
used.” —(M. J. R. D.) 
Of the beetles sent me, the greater number, somewhere about two 
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