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The table on the next page will show at a glance the 
number of genera and species, in each of the primary divisions 
of the Coleoptera according to the classification of the great 
French Entomologist Latreille, that are enumerated in the 
foregoing List as having been found in our District, and also 
the proportion they bear to the total number recognised as 
occurring in the British Islands. A comparison with the 
enumeration of the Coleoptera of the much more favourably 
situated Rochester district may be not uninteresting. 
During the time that this list has been passing through the 
press, several additional species of Coleoptera of very great in- 
terest have been taken in our District by searching the sub- 
terranean nests of the mole (Za/pa europea). ‘This method 
of collecting, first indicated by Dr. N. H. Joy of Bradfield, Berks, 
in the Entomologists’ Monthly Magazine for 1906 (vol. xlii., 
pp. 198—202, and 237-8), has brought to light several species 
quite new to the British beetle-fauna, and others hitherto re- 
garded as among our greatest rarities have been found in 
fair abundance in many localities. Besides those enumerated 
below, Hezerothops nigra, Kr. occurs in a large proportion of 
the nests examined, and the exceedingly rare AZedon castaneus, 
Grav. has been taken by me at Shotover Hill, and by Mr. 
A. H. Hamm at Ogley Bog. The following are not included in 
the Synoptical table. 
Aleochara spadicea, Er. Shotover; Wood Eaton (/. C.); Ogley Bog 
(CAB IER 126))- 
Oxypoda metatarsalis, Thoms. Wytham; Wood Eaton (/. C.). 
Homalota paradoxa, Rey. Wytham; Wood Eaton (/. C.). 
Quedius vexans, Epp. Wytham, Yarnton; Wood Eaton (WE (65))= 
Ogley Bog (A. H. #7). 
This and the two preceding species are among the most 
recent additions to the British list. 
Q. longicornis, Kr. Wytham; Wood Eaton (/. C.), Ogley Bog 
(4. AH. #.). Mr. Holland has also taken a single specimen at 
Shotover Hill on September 24th, 1898. 
Hister marginatus, Er. Shotover Hill; two examples, March 2nd, 
1907. 
Sth March, 1907. 
