60 Ashmolean Natural History Soctety of Oxfordshire. 
ABNORMAL COLEOPTERA. 
**Stylops melitte, Kirby. The winged Cf of this extraordinary insect 
has been taken flying in the University Parks by Mr. A. H. Hamm, 
who also finds the apterous females not rarely in the bodies of bees 
of the genus Andrena. 
**Halictophagus curtisii, Dale. Also found (females only) by Mr. 
Hamm, parasitic on bees of the genus Halictus. 
ADDENDA. 
‘ *Sunius diversus, Aubé. In old manure-heap at Botley; several ex- 
amples, 12th February, 1908. 
*Euthia scydmenoides, Steph. With the preceding; one example. 
*Silpha tristis, Il. In moss at Tubney ; one, 15th February, 1908. 
(As in the “ Preliminary List,” the names under which the 
species are here recorded are those used in Messrs. Beare and° 
Donisthorpe’s ‘‘ Catalogue of British Coleoptera,” dated 1904.) 
The above additions to our Local List are distributed among 
the primary divisions of the Coleoptera as follows :— 
GEODEPHAGA “ea Q species. | MALACODERMATA  ... 2 species. 
HYDRADEPHAGA ... 3 LONGICORNIA Hy Bs 
PHILHYDRIDA ore aes PHYTOPHAGA é Vie ey 
BRACHELYTRA see AL GD HETEROMERA faa 55 
NECROPHAGA i 26 % RHYNCHOPHORA  ... 33° 95 
LAMELLICORNES ... 2s ABNORMAL COLEOPTERA 2 ,, 
STERNOXI ... uc I — 
ToTaL 183 species. 
Making a grand total of about 1,580 species as yet recorded 
from our District. 
é' JAMES J. WALKER. 
20th February, 1908. 
