A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



LIST OF COLEOPTERA OBSERVED IN HERTFORDSHIRE 



CICINDELID^E 



Cicindela campestris, L. Hastoe, very 

 scarce, in Brown's Lane 



CARABID^E 

 CYCHRINA 



Cychrus rostratus, L. Bovingdon, in a 



gravel pit 

 CARABINA 



Carabus catenulatus, Scop. Tring 



nemoralis. Mull. ) _ . 



violaceus, L. Trmg-New Bar- 



monilis, F. net (Newbery) 



granulatus, L. New Ba met (Newbery) 



NOTIOPHILINA 



Notiophilus biguttatus, F. Tring 



aquaticus, L. \ _, . 



palustris, Duft. J ' 



rufipes, Curt. Wigginton, rare, at 



Gryme's Dyke 

 NEBRIINA 



Leistus spinibarbis, F. 1 _, . 



fulvibarbis, Dej. / Tra % 



ferrugineus, L. Tring, occasionally 



beaten out of hedges 

 Nebria brevicollis, F. Tring ; New Barnet 



(Newbery) 

 ELAPHRINA 



Elaphrus riparius, L. Wilstone, not un- 



common by the reservoir 



cupreus, Duft. El, tree (Piffkrd) ; Hert- 



ford (Stephens) 

 LORICERINA 



Loricera pilicornis, F. Tring ; New Barnet 



(Newbery) 

 SCARITINA 



Clivina fossor, L. Little Tring and Wihtone 



collaris, Herbst. Little Tring; New 



Barnet (Newbery) 

 Dyschirius aeneus, Dej. Wihtone, rather 



common at the reservoir 

 PANAG.SINA 



Panagaeus quadripustulatus, Stm. Hertford, 



4 taken in profusion under stones and 



clods of earth ' (Dawson, Monograph 



of British Geodephaga) 

 Badister bipustulatus, F. Tring 



sodalis, Duft. Tring, often found in 



dead leaves and moss, on the hills 



peltatus, Panz. Tring,onc specimen only 



LlCININA 



Licinus depressus, Payk. Tring, very rare, 

 on chalky ground under stones ; 

 near Payne's End. In March 



STENOLOPHINA 



Acupalpus dorsalis, F. Wihtone, under 

 dead reeds at the reservoir 



exiguus, Dej. Wigginton Common, 



plentiful in moss growing on a pond 

 bank ; Chipperfield (PifFard) 



brunnipes, Sturm. Near Hertford 1 



(Stephens) 



meridianus, L. Tring 



consputus, Duft. Wihtone, rare, under 



dead reeds by the reservoir 

 Bradycellus placidus, Gyll. Wihtone, scarce, 

 by the reservoir 



distinctus, Dej. .. 



verbasci, Duft. L Tring 



harpalinus, Dej. J 



similiSjDej. Wigginton Common,very rare 

 HARPALINA 



Harpalus punctatulus, Duft*. Hertfora 

 (Stephens) 



azureus, F. Rossway, near Wigginton, 



one example running in roadway ; 

 Hertford (Stephens) 



rupicola, Sturm. Tring, scarce, on the 



hills 



puncticollis, Payk. Tring 



rufibarbis, F. Tring, rare 



ruficornis, F. 



aeneus, F. j- Tring 



rubripes, Duft. ' 



latus, L. Aldbury and Tring 

 PTEROSTICHINA 



Stomis pumicatus, Panz. Tring ; New Bar- 

 net (Newbery) 



Platyderus ruficollis, Marsh. Felden (Pif- 

 fard) 



Pterostichus cupreus, L. f _- . 



versicolor, Sturm. / Trt ** 



lepidus, F. Hertford (Dawson, Mono- 



graph of British Geodephaga) 



madidus, F. "j 



niger, Schall. ! Tring 



vulgaris, L. J 



Chlaenius vestitus, Payk. Little 



very scarce, under stones 

 nigricornis, F. Elstree (PifFard) 



Tring, 



1 This locality is not quoted by Fowler in his 

 work on British Coleoptera, possibly on account 

 of uncertainty as to the identity of Stephens' 

 specimens. 



2 Harpalut ntundicolTis, H. punctatulus, and H. 

 azureus are all moderately common insects on the 

 sheltered southern slopes of the Chilterns, about 

 Chesham in Bucks ; but I have searched the hills 

 at Tring, only a few miles distant, most assiduously 

 for these members of the Ophonus group without 

 any success ; this fact is all the more striking, as 

 there is a large area of uncultivated chalky ground 

 at Tring, where they might well be expected to 

 occur ; their absence must probably be attributed 

 to climatal differences. 



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