106 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



fine condition, and was taken flying in the sunshine in a marshy 

 meadow. 



Among the Pyralides Perinephele lancealis was the only fresh 

 record. In the " Knothorns " Euzophera pinguis and Crypto- 

 blabes bistriga were new to the district. 



Tortrices were very disappointing, one specimen of Stigmonota 

 trauniana, bred from maple bark, being the only notable occurrence. 



No mention is made above of Macrogaster arundinis, Lithosia 

 muscerda, Tapinostola elymi, Nonagria brevilinea, and Hydrilla 

 palustris, taken in expeditions to Wicken and the Norfolk Broads, 

 as these will probably be referred to in another note. 



COLEOPTERA IN THE CHATTERIS DISTRICT IN 1906. 



During the three years 1879-81, the first-named writer col- 

 lected beetles somewhat assiduously, and then left them, mainly 

 owing to the difficulty of identification — for Fowler's ' British 

 Coleoptera ' was not then within reach. 



After twenty-five years' more or less desultory work among 

 Lepidoptera— the last ten with the assistance of my son, J. C. F. 

 Fryer — we came to the conclusion that not very much remained 

 to be done in the immediate district as regards the mere addi- 

 tion of species. In January, 1906, I looked up my old collec- 

 tion of Coleoptera, and found with disgust how much one can 

 forget in twenty-five years. 



During the last year we have taken some three hundred 

 species within the limits of the " district," and we give below a 

 few notes of the more interesting species. Although the charac- 

 teristics of this district have been referred to several times in 

 our notes on Lepidoptera, it may be as well in this first note on 

 the Coleoptera to repeat that it is comprised roughly within a 

 radius of twelve miles of the town of Chatteris, and consists of 

 both " highland," i. e., land with a subsoil of the older geological 

 formations, and cultivated feuland, of which the subsoil is partly 

 estuarine and partly lacustrine in origin. Its nearness — some 

 thirty miles — to the sandy coast of The Wash, with which it is in 

 direct communication by means of the river systems and artificial 

 " cuts," may account for the occurrence of some coast species. 



There are also two small woods and a very small portion of 

 original fen, neither of which, however, has at present been 

 worked to any extent, and the occurrence of such forms as 

 Haplocnemus nigricornis, Cistela ceramboides, and Tillus elongata 

 is curious. 



Anchomenus livens. — Several specimens in 1906. 



Philonthus decorus. — The same. 



Stenus opticus — One specimen. 



Dacne humeralis. — Local, but occurring in some numbers in dry 

 fungoid growth. 



Triplax ntssica. — Three specimens in 1881. I have not seen it since. 



