INSECTS 



ELATERIDAE (continued) 



Melanotus rufipes, Herbst. 



var. castanipes, Payk. Sherwood 



Forest (Trueman ; Fowler, Brit. 

 Coleop. iv, 97) 

 Athous rhombeus, Ol. Sherwood Forest (Blatch) 



niger, L. 



longicollis, Ol. 



haemorrhoidalis, Fab. 



vittatus, Fab. 

 Limonius minutus, L. 

 Adrastus limbatus, Fab. 

 Agriotes sputator, L. 



obscurus, L. 



lineatus, L. 



sobrinus, Kies. 



pallidulus, 111. 

 Dolopius marginatus, L. 



Corymbites pectinicornis, L. Worksop (Houghton) ; 

 Retford (Pegler) ; Grove (Rev. G. Shipton) ; 

 Wheatley (Rev. T. C. B. Chamberlin) ; Barton 

 (Ryles) 



cupreus, Fab. Nottingham, with var. aeruginosus, 



Fab. (Ryles); Lowdham (C. E. Pearson) 

 - tessellatus, Fab. Southwell (Ryles) 



quercus, Gyll. Nottingham district, with var. 



ochropterus, Steph. (Ryles) ; Worksop (Hough- 

 ton) 



holosericeus, Fab. 



aeneus, L. Nottingham (Ryles) ; Sherwood Forest 



(Fowler, Brit. Coleop. iv, 114); Bulwell Forest 



bipustulatus, L. Sherwood Forest (Turner ; Fowler, 



Brit. Coleop. iv, 115) 



Campylus linearis, L. Aspley ; Nottingham ; Hazle- 

 Jbrd (Ryles) ; Treswell and Gringley Woods 

 (Thornley) 



DASCILLIDAE 



Dascillus cervinus, L. Clumber (Pegler) ; Wheatley 

 (Rev. T. C. B. Chamberlin) ; Nottingham (Ryles) 



Helodes minuta, L. 



Microcara livida, Fab. 



Cyphon variabilis, Thunb. 



Prionocyphon serricornis, Moll. Sherwood Forest 



Scirtes hemisphaericus, L. Sutton, nr. Retford, abun- 

 dant among Equisetum (Thornley) 



MALACODERMIDAE 



Pyropterus affinis, Payk. Sherwood Forest, 1869 (J. R. 



Hardy) ; also taken there in 1869 and 1870 by 



J. Kidson Taylor, and subsequently by Rev. A. 



Matthews and others (see Fowler, Brit. Coleop. 



iv, 128) 



Platycis minutus, Fab. Treswell Wood (Thornley) 

 Lampyris noctiluca, L. Retford district (Pegler) ; 



Sherwood Forest ; Kingston-on-Soar 

 Podabrus alpinus, Payk. Aspley, Nottingham (Ryles) ; 



Sherwood Forest (Fowler, Brit. Coleop. iv, 133) 

 Telephorus rusticus, Fall. 



lividus, L. 



pcllucidus, Fab. 



nigricans, Mtill., and var. discoideus, Steph. 



obscurus, L. Nottingham (Ryles) ; Retford dis- 



trict (Pegler) ; Sherwood Forest (Turner and 

 Blatch ; Fowler, Brit. Coleop. iv, 138) 



- lituratus, Fab. 



- bicolor, Fab. 



MALACODERMIDAE (continued) 



Telephorus haemorrhoidalis, Fab. Nottingham (Ryles) ; 

 Retford (Pegler) ; S. Leverton, common on 

 hawthorn flowers (Thornley) 



oralis, Germ. Nottingham (Ryles) ; S. Leverton 



(Thornley) 



flavilabris, Fall. 



thoracicus, Ol. Nottingham (Pope) 

 Rhagonycha fuscicornis, Ol. 



fulva, Scop. 



testacea, L. Nottingham (Ryles) and Retford 



(Thornley) districts 



limbata, Thorns. 



pallida, Fab. 

 Malthinus punctatus, Fourc. 



fasciatus, Ol. Langford Moor (Thornley) ; Sherwood 



Forest 

 Malthodes marginatus, Latr. 



minimus, L. 



fibulatus, Kies. Sherwood Forest (Fowler, Brit. 



Coleop. iv, 152) 

 Malachius bipustulatus, L. 

 Dasytes flavipes, Fab. Nottingham district (Ryles) ; 



S. Leverton (Thornley) 



oculatus, Kies. Sherwood Forest (E. C. Rye ; and 



Fowler, Brit. Coleop. iv, 161) 

 - aerosus, Kies. 



Phloeophilus edwardsi, Steph. Sherwood Forest (Rev. 

 A. Matthews) (Fowler, Brit. Coleop. iv, 165) 



CLERIDAE 



Opilo mollis, L. Nottingham Park (Ryles) 

 Thanasimus formicarius, L. Sherwood Forest (Tomlin) 



(Nottingham, in profusion in 

 bone mill (Ryles) .Retford 

 common in bone mill 

 (Pegler) ; Shencood Forest 

 (Blatch and Homer) 



Corynetes coeruleus, De G. S. Lcverton, very com- 

 mon in the old church (Thornley) ; Retford 

 (Pegler) 



LYMEXYLONIDAE 



Hylecoetus dermestoides, L. Sherwood Forest, locally 



PTINIDAE 



Ptinus sexpunctatus, Panz. Nottingham University Col- 

 lege, 9 November 1897 ; many examples found 

 feeding on specimens of Draba in a parcel of 

 dried plants collected by Mr. H. Fisher in 

 Franz Josef Land. The origin of the insect 

 is, however, quite uncertain, and may be local 



fur, L. 



Niptus hololeucus, Fald. 



crenatus, Fab. Nottingham (Ryles) 



Hedobia imperialis, L. S. Leverton, often common 

 (Thornley) ; Nottingham district (Ryles and 

 Freestone) 



Dryophilus pusillus, Gyll. \ 



anobioides, Chevr. J 

 Priobium castaneum, Fab. 

 Anobium domesticum, Fourc. 



fulvicorne, Sturm. Beeston (Ryles) ; S. Levertoit 



(Thornley) 



paniceum, L. 



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