A HISTORY OF KENT 



Parnid^ 



Elmis aeneus, Mull. In running water, 

 clinging to stones, logs, or bits of 

 wood ; locally common 



— volkmari, Panz. As the preceding ; 



rare. Maithtone 

 Limnius tuberculatus, Mull. In running 

 water ; locally common. Lnvhbam ; 

 probably widely distributed. 



— rivularis, Rosenh. In running water ; 



rare. Birchingtofi near Alargate 

 Parnus prolifericornis, F. Pond sides, under 

 stones in damp places, etc. ; gene- 

 rally distributed and common 



— auriculatus, 111. As the preceding ; 



local and not uncommon as a rule. 



Snodland (scarce), Lee, Favers/xim 

 Heterocerus femoralis, Kies. Banks of 



ponds and ditches ; not common. 



Sheerness, Gravesend, Deal 

 . — obsoletus. Curt. Banks of brackish 



ditches ; sometimes in tidal refuse 



and seaweed ; local. Gravesend, 



Rochester, Chatham, Sheerness 



— marginatus, F. Banks of ponds and 



ditches ; not uncommon, especially 

 near the coast. Lee, Sheerness, Rain- 

 ham, Gravesend, JFhitstable, Maid- 

 stone 



— Isvigatus, Panz. Banks of ponds and 



ditches ; local. Lee, Darenth Wood 



— britannicus, Kuwert. (sericans, Brit. 



Col. ; nec Kies). Rare. Gravesend, 

 Sheerness, Pegwell Bay 



LUCANID^ 



Lucanus cervus, L. On trunks of trees 



and flying at dusk about midsummer; 



common and generally distributed 

 Dorcus parallelopipedus, L. In decaying 



ash trees ; rather common 

 Sinodendron cylindricum, L. In rotten 



wood of ash, beech, willow, etc. ; 



not uncommon 



SCARAB.€ID^ 



Copris lunaris, L. Sandy places ; in dung ; 



local, and as a rule rare. Greenwich, 



Char/ton, Bexley, Chatham, Birch 



Wood, Sittingboiirne 

 Onthophagus nutans, F. In dung ; rare. 



Darenth Wood 



— ovatus, L, In dung and decaying 



fungi ; generally distributed and 

 common 



— coenobita, Herbst. In dung ; common 



as a rule 



— vacca, L. In dung ; common 



— fracticornis, Payk. In dung ; local ; 



found especially near the coast. 

 Whitstable, Deal, Dover 



— nuchicornis. In dung ; local. Green- 



ScARABiUDiE [continued) 



wich, Gravesend, Whitstable, Belvedere, 

 Cobham Park (scarce, in deer's dung), 

 Deal 

 Aphodius erraticus, L.* Common 



— subterraneus, L. Local, but not un- 



common 



— fossor, L. Very common 



— haemorrhoidalis, L. Common 



■ — foetens, F. Not common. St. Peter's 

 {Isle of Thanet), Pegwell Bay, Folke- 

 stone, Dover 



— fimetarius, L. Common everywhere 



— scybalarius, F. Common 



— ater, De G. Common and generall) 



distributed 



— constans, Duft. Rare. Belvedere (T. 



Wood) 



— granarius, L. Very common through- 



out the county 



— nitidulus, F. Not very common. 



Darenth Wood, Pliimstead, Sand- 

 wich, Deal 

 ■ — sordidus, F. Rare. Greenwich, Belve- 

 dere, Plumstead 



— rufescens, F. Local. Greenwich, 



Whitstable, Belvedere, Cobham Park, 

 Tonbridge, Pegwell Bay, Hythe, 

 Dover 



— putridus, Sturm. Rare. Cobham Park, 



Tonbridge 



— plagiatus, L. Under stones, in flood 



refuse, etc. ; rarely in dung ; locally 

 common. Sheerness, Deal, Dover 

 ■ — lividus, Ol. Very local. Lee, 

 Darenth Wood, Greenwich, Sitting- 

 bourne, Kingsgate (in abundance, T. 

 Wood) 



— porcus, F. Not common. Chatham 



Lines, St. Peter's {Isle of Thanet), 

 Kingsgate, Ramsgate 



— tristis, Panz. Very local. Whitstable 



— pusillus, Herbst. Somewhat local, but 



by no means uncommon 



— merdarius, F. Generally distributed 



and common 



— inquinatus, F. Local. Birch and Da- 



renth Woods, Chatham, Deal 



— tessulatus, Payk. Rare. Darland Hill, 



Walderslade, Chatham, Tunhridge 

 Wells, Kingsgate, Broadstairs, Deal, 

 Folkestone 



— sticticus, Panz. Very local. Belve- 



dere, Tonbridge, Darenth Wood 



— consputus, Cr. Very local and usually 



rare. Gravesend, New Brompton, 



* All the species of Aphodius are found in dung 

 of various animals ; also in hotbeds and manure 

 heaps, and very often on the wing in numbers. 



