A HISTORY OF KENT 



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Choleva angustata, F. Rare. Upnor, 

 Sheerncis, Chatham 



— cisteloides, Froh. Rather common, but 



never plentiful 



— intermedia, Kr. Rare. Birch Wood, 



Dover 



— spadicea, Sturm. Rare. Cohham Great 



Wood, Bexley, St. Mary Cray 



— agilis, 111. Local. Sheerness, Bexley, 



Darenth Wood 



— velox, Spence. Common and generally 



distributed 



— wilkini, Spence. Less common than 



the preceding, but widely distributed 



— anisotomoides, Spence. Local, ^jeen- 



down, Chatham, Darenth Wood, 

 Ramsgate, Folkestone 



— fusca, Panz. Local and never com- 



mon. Greenwich, Rochester, Cohham 

 Park, Chatham 



— nigricans, Spence. As the preceding. 



Chattenden, Cohham Park, Lee, Birch 

 Wood, Sheerness 



— morio, F. Mr. Walker records this as 



generally distributed and not rare in 

 the Rochester district ; as a rule it is 

 not common. Sheerness, Chatham, 

 Lee 



— grandicollis, Er. Local. Cohham Park, 



Chatham, Sheerness, etc. 



— nigrita, Er. Local, but w^idely distri- 



buted 



— tristis, Panz. Generally distributed and 



common 



— chrysomeloides, Panz. Generally dis- 



tributed 



— fumata, Spence. Not uncommon 



— watsoni, Spence. With the preceding, 



but less common 



— colonoides, Kr. Very rare; one speci- 



men in rotten stump of ash, April, 

 1897. Cohham Park (J. J. W.) 



— sericeus, F. Common everywhere 



— varicornis, Kr. Very rare. Folkestone 



(Power) 

 Colon viennense, Herbst. Rare. Wigmore 

 Wood, Cohham Park, Rainham, Dar- 

 enth Wood, Birch Wood, Lee, Chat- 

 ham 



— serripes, Sahib. Rare. Cohham Park, 



Maidstone, Lee 



— dentipes, Sahib. Very rare. Darenth 



Wood (Champion) 

 var. zebei, Kr. Very rare. JVigmore 

 Wood near Chatham (J. J. W.) 



— brumeum, Latr. The only member ot 



the genus that cannot be called rare. 

 Sevcnoaks, Darenth Wood, Chatham, 

 Cohham Park, Chattenden, etc. 



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Colon appendiculatum. Sahib. Very rare. 

 Birch Wood (Power) 



— denticulatum, Kr. Very rare. Darenth 



Wood (Power), Hythe (Rye) 



— latum, Kr. Very rare. Greenhithe 



(Waterhouse) 



[The members of the genus Colon .ire among 

 our very rarest beetles ; they are all taken by 

 sweeping in the summer] 



Bathyscia (Adelops) woUastoni, Jans. This 

 species used to be considered ex- 

 tremely rare, but has occurred in 

 numbers in the Isle of Thanet near 

 Broadstairs in decaying seed potatoes, 

 where I have taken it with the Rev. 

 T. Wood in his garden ; it has also 

 occurred at Staple and Wingham, 

 and is probably general but over- 

 looked 



ScVDM^NIDi^ 



Neuraphes elongatulus, MuU. Not com- 

 mon. Lee, Faversham, Sandwich 



— angulatus, Mlill. Not common. Lee, 



Sheerness, West Wickham, Tonhridge, 

 Sandwich 



— sparshalli, Denny, Rare. Sheerness, 



Lee, Cohham Park, Sittingbourne 



var. minutus, Chaud. (pumilio, 



Schaum). Rare. Lee (Power) 



— longicollis. Mots, (prasteritus, Rye). 



Rare. Cohham Park, Wigmore Wood, 

 Snodland, Erith, Strood, Folkestone, 

 Sandwich 

 Scydmsnus scutellaris. Mull. Generally 

 distributed and common 



— collaris, Mull. Usually common. Ro- 



chester district, scarce (J. J. W.) 



— pusillus, Mull. Rare. Chatham dis- 



trict ; once found in some numbers 

 at Snowledge Bottom (J. J. W.) 



— exilis, Er. Under rotten beech bark. 



Cohham Park, rare 

 Euconnus denticornis. Mull. Rare. Faver- 

 sham, Ashford, Darenth Wood, Chat- 

 tenden 



— hirticollis, 111. Rare. Snodland, Faver- 



sham 



— fimetarius, Chaud. Rare. Sheerness, 



Bromley, Darenth Wood, Ton- 

 bridge 



Eumicrus tarsatus. Mull. Generally dis- 

 tributed and common 



Euthia scydmaenoides, Steph. Rare. Black- 

 heath, Dover 



— plicata, Gyll. Very rare. Cohham 



Park, one specimen (J. J. W.) 

 Cephennium thoracicum, Mull. Not un- 

 common 



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