INSECTS 



SILPHIDAE (continued} 



Anisotoma obesa, Schmidt. Sherwood Forest (Fowler, 

 Brit. Coleop. iii, 29) 



calcarata, Er. 



Colenis dentipes, Gyll. Sherwood Forest (Blatch) 

 Necrophorus humator, Fab. 



mortuorum, Fab. 



vestigator, Heer. Newstead (Win. Allen) ; Clum- 



ber (Pegler) ; Nottingham 

 ruspator, Er. Nottingham, Worksop, and Retford 



districts 

 var. microcephalus, Thorns. Aspley Woods 



(Ryles) 



interruptus, Steph. Near Nottingham, rare 



(Dr. G. Howitt) 



vespillo, L. 



Necrodes littoralis, L. In dead animals in the Vale of 

 Trent (Dr. G. Howitt) ; Kingston-on-Soar, in 

 dead squirrel, 1905 (Thornley) 



Silpha tristis, 111. Nottinghamshire (Fowler, Brit. 

 Coleop. iii, 48) 



nigrita, Creutz. Nottingham (Howitt, Ryles, Dodd, 



etc.) 



obscura, L. 'Nottinghamshire (Fowler, Brit. Coleop. 



iii, 49) 



quadripunctata, L. Sherwood Forest 



reticulata, Fab. " Nottinghamshire (Fowler, Brit. 



Coleop. iii, 50) 



opaca, L. S. Leverton (Thornley) ; Nottingham 



(Dr. G. Howitt) 



thoracica, L. 



rugosa, L. 



sinuata, Fab. 



strata, L. 



var. brunnea, Herbst. Clifton Grove (Ryles) 

 Choleva angustata, Fab. Nottingham (Dr. Howitt) 



cisteloides, Frohl. 



intermedia, Kr. Nottingham (Ryles) 



spadicea, Sturm. Nottingham (T. Ludgrove ; 



specimen named by Canon Fowler); Sherwood 

 Forest 



agilis, 111. 



velox, Spence 



anisotomoides, Spence. Treswell (Thornley) ; 



Retford (Pegler) 



fusca, Panz. 



nigricans, Spence 



morio, Fab. Sherwood Forest (Fowler, Brit. 



Coleop. iii, 62) 



grandicollis, Er. 



nigrita, Er. 



tristis, Panz. 



kirbyi, Spence 



chrysomeloides, Panz. 



fumata, Spence 



watsoni, Spence 

 Ptomaphagus sericeus, Fab. 



varicornis, Ros. Sherwood Forest (Fowler, Brit. 



Coleop. iii, 66) ; Retford (Pegler) 



HISTERIDAE 



Hister unicolor, L. Nottingham and Retford districts 

 (Thornley and Ryles) 



merdarius, Hoff. S. Leverton (Thornley) ; Sher- 



wood Forest (Blatch) 



cadaverinus, Hoff. Nottingham, Worksop, and Ret- 



ford districts 



HISTERIDAE (continued) 



stercorarius, Hoff. Newark (?) (Hadfield coll.) 

 Hister succicola, Thorns. Sherwood Forest 



purpurascens, Herbst. Sherwood Forest (Fowler, 



Brit. Coleop. iii, 202) ; Fiskerton (Ryles) ; there 

 were numerous specimens in the late Mr. Had- 

 field's collection, presumably from the Newark 

 district 



marginatus, Er. Sherwood Forest (Chaster) 



neglectus, Germ. Nottingham Forest (Dr. Godfrey 



Howitt) ; Newark district (?) (Hadfield coll.) 



carbonarius, 111. 



I2-striatus, Schr. 



bimaculatus, L. 



Carcinops 1 4-striata, Steph. Sherwood Forest (Blatch) ; 



Retford, in old corn-mill (Pegler) 

 Dendrophilus punctatus, Herbst. One specimen from 



dead bird, Nottinghamshire, 1828 (Dr. Howitt) ; 



Sherwood Forest (Tomlin and Chaster) 

 Gnathoncus punctulatus, Thorns. Retford, not un- 



common in old corn-mill (Pegler) ; S. Leverton, 



one example, 20 May, 1901 (Thornley) 

 Saprinus nitidulus, Payk. 



aeneus, Fab. Bulwell Forest, 3 June, 1899; 



abundant in Nottinghamshire (Dr. Howitt); now 

 rare 



virescens, Payk. Once taken by Mr. Marlow at 



Welbeck (Dr. Howitt); taken recently in the 

 Retford district by Rev. T. C. B. Chamberlin 



rugifrons, Payk. Sherwood Forest (Fowler, Brit. 



Coleop. iii, 212) 

 Plegaderus dissectus, Er. Sherwood Forest, taken on 



various occasions from 1870 on wards by several 



collectors 

 Abraeus globosus, Hoff. Retford (Pegler) ; Sherwood 



Forest (Blatch) 



granulum, Er. Sherwood Forest (Blatch) 

 Acritus minutus, Herbst. 



Onthophilus sulcatus, Fab. Nr. Nottingham (A. H. 

 Davis, in Loudon's Mag. N. H., April, 1832) ; 

 Nottinghamshire, Stephens (Fowler, Brit. Coleop. 

 iii, 217) 



striatus, Fab. 



SCAPHIDIIDAE 



Scaphidium quadrimaculatum, Ol. Sherwood Forest ; 



Langford Moor 



Scaphisoma agaricinum, L. Retford (Pegler) ; Sher- 

 wood Forest (Blatch, Homer, etc.) 



boleti, Panz. Sherwood Forest (Blatch and Homer) 



TRICHOPTERYGIDAE 



Pteryx suturalis, Heer. Sherwood Forest 



Ptinella testacea, Heer. ' Under bark of dead beech ; 

 taken in great abundance by Rev. A. Matthews 

 in Sherwood Forest, and also by Mr. Blatch ' 

 (Fowler, Brit. Coleop. iii, 1 1 1) 



denticollis, Fa> 

 -aptera,Guer 



angustula, Gill. 



tenella, Er. A single example under bark of dead 



oak in Sherwood Forest (Fowler, Brit. Coleop. iii, 

 113) 



Trichopteryx sarae, Matth. 'Two specimens were 

 taken in Nottinghamshire by the Rev. H. Mat- 

 thews in 1 86 1 ; the species has not been found 

 since that time ' (Fowler, Brit. Coleop. iii, 1 1 6) 



and Fowler 



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