52. Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire. 
with his library an interleaved copy of Marsham’s “ Entomologia 
Britannica ; Coleoptera,” in which he has noted the capture of 
about 150 species of beetles at Oxford, made during the 
years 1819 to 1822, when he was an undergraduate of Christ 
Church. Through the kindness of Professor E. B. Poulton, 
F.RS., I have been enabled to incorporate in the present List 
these notes, which record the capture of a good many of the 
less common forms, and of several species of altogether excep- 
tional interest. Of these latter may be mentioned Wecrophorus 
germanicus, L. and Platycerus carabotdes, V.., which have not 
been taken in this country for many years, and are omitted 
from all the more recent catalogues of British Coleoptera. The 
circumstances of the capture of these species are given in 
full detail by Mr. Hope, and many of the specimens exist, in 
excellent preservation, in the Museum collection of British 
beetles. That renowned Entomologist, the late Professor J. O. 
Westwood, F.R.S., recorded several species from the Oxford 
district, among them, for the first time as a British insect, 
the wonderful blind ant’s-nest beetle Claviger testaceus (Proc. 
Entom. Soc. September 3rd, 1838) ; and in the third volume of 
the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 
and the earlier volumes of the ‘ Zoologist,” are a few interest- 
ing records from Oxford by Mr. F. W. Holme. To come to more 
recent times, the late Mr. J. W. Shipp, an energetic and pro- 
mising young Coleopterist, recorded a considerable number 
of interesting species in the “ Entomologist,” vol. xxvi., p. 130 
(1893), and the ‘“ Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine”’ for 1893 
and 1894 (vol. xxix., p. 89, and vol. xxx., p. 15); and notes 
on the Coleoptera of the district have been contributed by 
myself to the volumes of the latter periodical for 1905 and 
1906. 
For the purposes of this list I have practically restricted 
myself to a radius of seven miles from Carfax, the centre of 
the city of Oxford, this being about the limit at which one 
can effectively work a district by the aid of one’s legs un- 
assisted by a bicycle. For a locality situated in the Midland 
Counties, the present list of 1,399 species out of a total of 
about 3,290 for the British Islands, or 42°5 per cent. of the 
whole number, must be regarded as showing a richness in 
Coleoptera very much above the average. As considerable 
portions of the area are up to the present time almost un- 
touched, many additions to our local list may reasonably be 
expected, and many more when the smaller and more difficult 
forms, especially in the water-beetles, Staphylinide, Clavicornes, 
&c., are more fully worked up than they are at present.  In- 
deed, I have been compelled to altogether omit one family, the 
