Report for 1909. 7 



Family Scarabseidse. 



*Aphodius tristis, Panz. Cothill and Tiibney, singly, in dung, April and 

 June, 1909 {/.C.) 



Family Eucnemidse. 



*Throscus obtusus, Curt. In grass-tuft in a wet place near Wytliam 

 Park, 2nd December, 1906 {/. C), and taken there in moss by 

 myself, 4th April, 1908. The type-specimen of this interesting 

 little species, described and figured by Curtis (Brit. Ent., plate 163, 

 May, 1827), was "beaten by myself (Prof. Westvvood) from an oak 

 " tree near the village of Ensham (between Oxford and Witney) at the 

 " beginning of last September (1826)," and is now in the Plope-West- 

 wood collection of British Coleoptera in the Oxford University Museum. 



Family DasciUidae. 

 *Dascillus cervinus, L. This rather conspicuous beetle occurs locally 

 but not uncommonly near Cothill on flowers in early summer ; first 

 taken loth June, 1908. 

 Cyphon padi, L. In moss, &c., at Yarnton, February and March, 1908 

 (/• C.). 

 **Prionocyphon serricornis, Miill. A single example of this rare species 

 was beaten from spruce-fii- at Tubney by Mr. P. Harwood, 25th 

 June, 1909. 



Family TelephoridsB. 



*Malthodes dispar, Grerm. By sweeping at Cothill, occasional, 15th 



July, 1909. 

 *M. fibulatus, Kies. A $ example taken by sweeping at Wytham Park, 



23rd May, 1909 {J. C. ). 

 *Psilothrix nobilis, 111. By sweeping near Cothill ; one example, 22nd 



May, 1909. 



Family Cleridae. 

 *Tillus elongatus, M. A single example on Glyceyia aqtiatica, by the 



river-side between Binsey and Godstow, 12th July, 1909. Usually 



found on old timber. 

 *Corynaetes cceruleus, De G. By sweeping near Tubney; rare, loth 



June, 1908. 



Family Ptinidse. 

 **Ptinus sexpunctatus, Panz. In house, Southfield Road, 17th June, 

 1909 {A. H. Ha mm). 



Family Cissidse- 

 Cis hispidus, Payk. In powdery fungus on old willow near Wytham, 



29th October, 1905 (/. C). 

 *C. pygmseus. Marsh. One example at Shotover, 5th August, 1907 



(/• C). 

 *C. fuscatus, Mell. By sweeping at Water Eaton, one example, 5th 

 September, 1909 {J. C). I have found this species in numbers, in 

 fungus on decaying birch at Weston- on -the-Green. 

 *Rhopaiodontus fronticornis, Payk. In fungus with Cis hispidus near 



Wytham, 29th October, 1905 (/. C). 

 *Ennearthron cornutum, Gyll. In fungus on birch stump, Wytham 

 Park, 22nd October, 1907, and by sweeping at Tubney (y. C). 



