A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



MYCETOPHAGIDAE (continued) 



Litargus bifasciatus, Fab. Clifton Grove, nr. Nottingham 



(Ryles) 

 Mycetophagus quadripustulatus, L. Nottingham, 



Worksop, and Retford districts 



piceus, Fab. Lound, near Ret/bra" (Pegler) ; Sher- 



wood Forest 



atomarius, Fab. Clifton Grove (Ryles) 



qu.idrigutt.itus, Mull. Retford, in old corn mill 



(Pegler) 



multipunctatus, Hellw. Littleborougb (Thornley) 



BYTURIDAE 

 Byturus tomentosus, Fab. 



DERMESTIDAE 



Derrnestes vulpinus, Fab. Bone works at Nottingham 

 (Ryles) and Retford (Thornley and Pegler) ; 

 Worksop (Houghton) 



murinus, L. Has occurred throughout the county 



in dead birds, etc. 



lardarius, L. 

 Attagenus pellio, L. 



Megatoma undata, Er. Nr. Nottingham (Dr. Howitt) ; 



Sherwood Forest (Fowler and Ryles) ; Retford 



district (Pegler) 



Tiresias serra, Fab. Sherwood Forest (Blatch) 

 Anthrenus musaeorum, L. 

 - claviger, Er. Nottingham, Worksop, and Retford 



districts, common ; ' sometimes swarms at 



parsley flowers at S. Leverton ' (Thornley) 



BYRRHIDAE 



Byrrhus pilula, L. 



fasciatus, Fab. 



murinus, Fab. Nottingham, once taken (Dr. 



Howitt) 



Cytilus varius, Fab. 

 Simploc.iria semistriata, Fab. 

 Aspidiphorus orbiculatus, Gyll. Sherwood Forest 



PARNIDAE 



Elmis aeneus, Mull. 



cupreus, Mall. Treswell (Thornley) 

 Parnus prolifericornis, Fab. 



auriculatus, Panz. Newark district (?) (Hadfield 



coll.) 



HETEROCERIDAE 

 Heterocerus marginatus, Fab. Barton-in-Fabis (Pope) 



LUCANIDAE 



Dorcus parallelopipedus, L. Nottingham district (Wol- 

 laton, Clifton Grove, etc.) ; Wheatley (Rev. T. 

 C. B. Chamberlin) ; Retford district (Pegler) ; 

 Sherwood Forest (Fowler, Brit. Coleop. iv, 6) 



Sinodendron cylindricum, L. 



SCARABAEIDAE 



Onthophagus ovatus, L. Mansfield (Dr. G. Howitt) 



coenobita, Herbst. Rare near Nottingham (Dr. 



Howitt) 



nuchicornis, L. Nottingham, abundant, 1830 



(Dr. Howitt) ; Retford district (Pegler) 



SCARABAEIDAE (continued) 



Aphodius erraticus, L. 



subterraneus, L. 



fossor, L. 



haemorrhoidalis, L. 



foetens, Fab. 



fimetarius, L. 



scybalarius, Fab. 



ater, De G. 



constans, Duft. Coltvick, fairly common in early 



spring (Ryles) 



granarius, L. 



rufescens, Fab. Nottingham and Retford districts 



porcus, Fab. Clumber (Pegler) ; not uncommon 



near Nottingham (Dr. G. Howitt) 



pusillus, Herbst. Nottingham and Retford districts 



merdarius, Fab. 



inquinatus, Fab. 



sticticus, Panz. S. Leverton, common (Thornley) 



punctato-sulcatus, Sturm. 



prodromus, Brahm. 



contaminatus, Herbst. Nottingham and Retford 



districts, often abundant. 



luridus, Fab. (The black var. also occurs) 



rufipes, L. 



depressus, Kug. 



Geotrupes typhoeus, L. Common throughout the 

 Forest district of Nottinghamshire ; Dr. Howitt 

 (Stephens) 



spiniger, Marsh. 



stercorarius, L. 



- sylvaticus, Panz. 



vernalis, L. Mansfield Forest (Dr. Howitt) 

 Trox scaber, L. Nottingham and Retford districts 

 Hoplia philanthus, Fuss. ' Nottinghamshire ' (Fowler, 



Brit. Coleop. iv, 48) 

 Serica brunnea, L. 

 Rhizotrogus solstitialis, L. Nottingham, sometimes 



common ; Worksop (Houghton) 

 Melolontha vulgaris, Fab. 

 Phyllopertha horticola, L. 

 Cetonia aurata, L. Mansfield (Dr. G. Howitt) 



BUPRESTIDAE 



Agrilus laticornis, 111. (?) Treswell Wood (Pegler) 



angustulus, 111. Sherwood Forest (Tomlin) 



THROSCIDAE 



Throscus dermestoides, L. Longford Moor, common 

 (Thornley) ; Nottingham (Ryles); Sherwood Forest, 

 common 



EUCNEMIDAE 

 Melasis buprestoides, L. Sherwood Forest (Tomlin) 



ELATERIDAE 



Lacon murinus, L. 

 Cryptohypnus riparius, Fab. 



quadripustulatus, Fab. Nottingham district (Ryles) 

 Elater lythropterus, Germ. Sherwood Forest 



coccinatus, Rye. Sherwood Forest (Blatch; Fowler, 



Brit. Coleop. iv, 90) 



pomonae, Steph. Sherwood Forest (]. Ray Hardy) 



[See Ent. Month. Mag. April, 1873, p. 268] 



pomorum, Herbst. Sherwood Forest; first taken 



in 1836 by Dr. Howitt and T. Desvignes, and 

 from 1 886 to the present time by Fowler, Blatch, 

 Homer, and others 



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