INSECTS 



G. C. Champion for the loan of his exhaustive hst of the Coleoptera of 

 Kent and Surrey. I have been much helped by having had full access 

 to the late Dr. Power's collection while writing my work on British 

 Coleoptera, and I have of course included these records in my list, as well 

 as many others contributed by other entomologists, among them being 

 the late Mr. S. Stevens, Mr. R. W. Lloyd, the Rev. T. Wood, Mr. C. G. 

 Hall, the late Mr. W. G. Blatch and the late Mr. A. C. Horner. The 

 last mentioned collector paid especial attention to the small and obscure 

 Staphylinidce and Clavicornia of Tonbridge and its neighbourhood, and 

 added a considerable number of species to the Kentish fauna. The 

 total result has been a list which comprises the great majority of the 

 British Coleoptera, and which cannot, I feel sure, be beaten by any 

 other county of Great Britain. 



Among the Carabidee, Carabus auratus, Calosoma sycophanta and 

 Diachromus germaiius are perhaps the most striking, but they are very 

 doubtfully indigenous. The genera Dyschirius and Harpaius are particu- 

 larly well represented, and such insects as Atnarafusca, Anchomenus livens, 

 Bembidium quaaripustulatum and hebia crux-minor deserve more than a 

 passing notice. 



The best of the Dytiscids appear to be Dytiscus circumjiexus and 

 Hydaticus seminiger. Several species of Gyrinidse are found in the brackish 

 ditches, among them being G. elongatus and G. suffriani. The Hydro- 

 philida2 are well represented. 



It would take too long to enumerate the good species that have 

 occurred among the Staphylinids. Aleochara brunmipennis has been taken 

 at Frindsbury near Rochester by Com. Walker and also at St. Mary Cray 

 by Dr. Sharp ; Ilyobates propinquus and /. forticornis have occurred at 

 West Wickham and Snodland respectively. About one hundred species 

 of Homalota are included in the list, several of them being very rare. 

 'Emus hirtus has been found on two or three occasions, and the following 

 deserve mention : Euryporus picipes (Strood and Faversham), ^edius 

 longicornis (Cobham ^^.v^), Staphylinusfuhipes (Folkestone), Ocypus cyaneus 

 (Folkestone), Philonthus punctus (Sheerness and Gravesend), P. fuscus 

 (Chatham and Cobham Vzvk), Medon castaneus (Deal), M. piceus (Bexley), 

 Acrognathus mandibularis (Tonbridge and Darenth Wood) and Compsochilus 

 palpalis (Sheerness and Tonbridge). 



Among the Clavicornia several species of Atiisotoma and Colon are 

 especially noticeable. The very rare T'richonyx sulcicollis has been found 

 in one or two localities. Oxylcemus variolosus has occurred under bark at 

 Charlton, and one specimen of Silvatms sitnilis has been taken by Mr. 

 Walker in a birch faggot in Cobham Park. 



Among the Scarab^ids may be mentioned Heptaulacus villosus and 

 Odontceus mobilicornis, and also the beautiful and very rare Gnorimus nobilis. 



Several good Buprestida2 and Elaterid^ occur in the county. We 

 have already referred to Agrilus biguttatus. All the species of Trachys 

 and Throscus are found, and three or four of the red Elaters. Ludius 

 ferrugineus is now apparently extinct, but has occurred at Darenth Wood. 



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