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**Thalycra sericea, Sturm. Single examples of this rare species have 
been taken by sweeping at Wytham Park, July 27th, and at Tubney, 
September 14th, 1905. 
Pocadius ferrugineus, F. In puffballs, chiefly in autumn; Tubney, 
Wytham Park; not rare. 
Pria dulcamare, Scop. On Solanum dulcamara ; generally distributed 
and common. 
Meligethes rufipes, Gyll. On hawthorn-blossom, &c., in early summer ; 
common. 
M. lumbaris, Sturm. With the preceding; Bagley Wooa, Wytham 
Park, &c., not rare. 
M. zneus, F. In flowers, spring and early summer ; abundant. 
M. viridescens, F. Occurs with the preceding, but much more rarely. 
M. difficilis, Heer. On Lamium album ; fairly common. 
*M. brunnicornis, Sturm. On flowers in marshy places, not rare ; Boar’s 
Hill, Tubney ; King’s Weir (/. #.). 
*M. ovatus, Sturm. Chiefly on thistles; Tubney, Wytham Park, Xc. ; 
not rare. 
M. picipes, Sturm. In flowers throughout the summer; common. 
*M. murinus, Er. On flowers of Echium vulgare ; Tubney, Wytham 
Park ; common. 
M. erythropus, Gyll. By sweeping; Cothill, Tubney, \c. ; frequent. 
Cychramus luteus, F. In hawthorn blossom, Xc., early summer; 
common. 
C. fungicola, Heer. In fungi in autumn ; Boar’s Hill, Tubney, Wytham 
Park ; not rare. 
*Cryptarcha strigata, F. By sweeping at Wytham Park, rare, September, 
1905. This species is usually found in the burrows of the larva of 
Cossus ligniperda. 
*Ips quadripunctata, Herbst. Under oak bark, Bagley Wood 
(4. H. #H.); taken rather freely in a sappy oak stump outside 
Wytham Great Wood by Mr. J. Collins and myself, April, 1906. 
Rhizophagus perforatus, Er. By sweeping and under bark; Wytham 
Park, frequent. 
R. bipustulatus, F. Under bark; generally distributed and common. 
FamiLy Trogositide. 
Tenebrioides mauritanicus, L. In bakers’ shops, Oxford (4. H. #.). 
FaMILY Monotomide. 
Monotoma spinicollis, Aubé. By sweeping near Cothill; rare. 
M. picipes, Herbst. In vegetable refuse, manure-heaps, &c. ; Summer- 
town, not rare. 
Famity Lathridiide. 
Lathridius lardarius, De G. By sweeping; widely distributed and 
not rare. 
L. angulatus, Mann. In old faggots; Bagley Wood, occasional. 
*L. bergrothi, Reitt. Taken freely by Mr. W. Holland among faggots, 
rubbish, &c., in his cellar in Observatory Street, Oxford. 
Coninomus nodifer, Westw. In dead sticks and vegetable refuse, and 
by sweeping ; generally common. 
