300 ADDITIONAL LOCALITIES, NOTES, ETC. 



and Sonthport sandhills, not rare (Chaster and Sopp). The insect is 

 nocturnal in habits. 



Xylophilus populneus, F. Enfield (Donisthorpe) ; Cheshunt (Jennings) ; 

 Bury district, Suffolk (Tuck) ; Back River, Norfolk (Edwards) ; Summer- 

 town, Oxford (Walker) ; Wicken Fen (Dollman). 



Xylophilus brevicornis, Perris. Heathfield, Sussex (Beevor). The Wands- 

 worth record refers to X. popvlneus, F. 



Xylophilus oculatus, Gyll. Newport, I. of W. (Butler) ; Cobham Park 

 (Walker) ; New Forest (Beare and Donisthorpe) ; Dunston Common, 

 Norfolk (Edwards). 



Meloe proscarabeus, v. cyaneus, Muls. Alverstone, I. of W. (Ellis) ; Cumber- 

 land (Britten) ; Ireland, Donegal. Mr. Chitty recorded larvae of Meloe on 

 specimens of Odynenis, and also two forms of larvse, a yellow and a black, 

 at Doddington, Kent. Seven or eight Meloe larvfe were recorded on a 

 sjjecimen of Cetonia aurata by " Jonicus." 



Meloe violacens. Marsh. Richmond, common (Beare and Donisthorpe) ; 

 Boar's Hill, Oxford (Holland) ; Suffolk, Eye district (Tyrer) ; Bentley 

 Woods (Morley) ; Norfolk, Reepham (Thouless) ; Louth district, Lines 

 (Wallace-Kew) ; Blanchland Moors, Durham (Bagnall) ; Ireland, rare, Car- 

 low and Kerry ; Scotland, Loch Garimha (W. Evans). Mr. Donisthoriae 

 found that this species was distasteful to all the insectivora he offered it 

 to at the Zoological Gardens (Ent. Rec, 1904, p. L50). 



Meloe rugosus. Marsh. Streatley (Joy). 



Meloe brevirollis, Panz. Sandown, I. of W. (Goldthwait) ; Miller's Dale 

 ( Kidson-Taylor ) . 



Sitaris ynuralis, Forst. Chobham (Robertson) ; not uncommon on old 

 walls near Oxford (Hamm) ; in nest of Bombus terrestris near Gloucester 

 (Gates). 



Lytia vesicatoria, L. Wareham, Dorset (Boreham), Wimborne (Dr. Knott), 

 Bloxworth and Morden Park (0. Pickard Cambridge) ; Dover (Stockwell) ; 

 Shirley Warren, Southampton (Gorham) ; Isle - of Wight, Sandown 

 (J. Taylor), Wliitwell (Bryant) ; retaken in the old locality near the Gog 

 Magog Hills, Cambridgeshire, 1901 (Donisthorpe) ; Newmarket, in abun- 

 dance (Collin and others). The old records mention that in the summer 

 of 1836 it occurred in the utmost profusion at Colchester and other parts 

 of Essex, Ipswich and other jmrts of Suffolk, and in the Isle of Wight ; 

 also taken in vast numbers by Dr. Hairley near Southampton in 1838. 

 Ireland, a single specimen taken by Hon. R. E. Dillon on mountain ash 

 in 1897 at Cloonca Wood, Roscommon. Lichenstein worked at the life- 

 history of this beetle {see E. M. M. xii. p. 187, xiv. p. 118, xv. p. 116, and 

 xvi. pp. 34 and 70). 



