326 THE entomologist's record. 



days at dusk.* In the light of certain records, it seems strange that 

 the connection between Eparaea anf/usttila and Trypodendron has not 

 hitherto, so far as I am aware, been established, especially since the 

 parallel form of the Epuraea. is clearly adapted to the conditions of its 

 life. The Acrulia has occurred to me from beneath bark of a Trypo- 

 (ieHrfro??--infested beech at Gibside, and that of a birch (similarly 

 affected) at Winlaton, whilst four examples have actually been taken 

 from Tnjpodendron borings in the latter tree. — E. S. Bagnall, 

 Winlaton. October 11th, 1906. 



Note on Scydm^nid^ and Pselaphid^ from the Northumberland 

 AND Durham district. — General collecting this season was so tedious 

 and unproductive that I devoted my limited spare time to spe?ial 

 search for beetles which, owing to their distribution, should reasonably 

 be expected to occur in our neighbourhood ; though often disappointed, 

 many of the species thus sought were found, but the majority of the 

 sixty odd species of coleoptera we have been able to add to our counties' 

 fauna this year were quite unexpected, and amongst them were not a 

 few nice Seydmaenidae and PselapJndae. To be candid, I had never 

 taken a single example of either family till March of this year, when I 

 found a fine male of -•'Bythinus validus, Aub., in Gibside, Later, B. 

 piincticollis, Den., was taken in the Derwent Valley and at Corbridge ; 

 B. hulbifer, Reich., commonly, and several of the (with us) very local 

 B. curtisi, Den., at one particular spot in Gibside. '■'■'Scydmaeniis exilis, 

 Er., was found under bark of various trees at Gibside, Rowlands Gill, 

 and Winlaton ; S. collaris, MiilL, in many localities ; ■■'Neuraphes 

 anyulattis, Miill., occurred in refuse on Greatham Salt Marsh in the 

 south of Durham ; a single specimen of -''N. elonyatulua, Miill., at 

 Gibside, and another nearer home, whilst a third species of Neuraphes, 

 a tiny insect scarcely 0-8mm. in length, which was unfortunately 

 destroyed while undergoing examination under the microscope, I can 

 only doubtfully refer to a small form of '''-N. sparshalli, Den., probably 

 Chaudiors' var. minutus. Eumicrus tarsatus, Miill., has been found in 

 fair numbers in vegetable refuse at Axwell Park and Brockwell, and 

 '•'Tychus niger, Pk., at Gibside and Corbridge. Perhaps the most inter- 

 esting things, however, were certain species of Euplectus, the more 

 difficult of which owe their final determination to Mr. Donisthorpe's 

 kindness. -•'Bibloporus bicolor, Den., occurred beneath beech bark at 

 Gibside and Winlaton, to Mr. Donisthorpe, Professor Beare, and myself ; 

 two examples of '''Euplectus punctatus, Muls., at Winlaton, and a nice 

 specimen of '''E. karsteni, Reich., in damp rotten wood, also near 

 Winlaton; E. nanus, Reich., common in cut grass and haystack refuse; 

 single examples of -'E. piceus, Mots., at Gibside and Winlaton, from 

 beneath bark of oak and pine respectively, whilst a stray example of 

 '■'E. sanyuineus, Den., was taken from beneath a stone. I may add that, 

 in July of this year, I found E. piceus beneath fir bark, in Glen Ashdale, 

 on the Isle of Arran. [Those marked * are additions to the counties' 

 fauna.] — Ibid. 



Coleoptera in Sussex. — During my somewhat scanty leisure time 

 this year, I have met with no great rarities in the direction of 

 coleoptera ; one or two of my better captures seem, however, to be 



* In the Irish List (1902, p. 706) E. ancjustula is recorded as "taken in the 

 borings of Trypodendron domesticum.'^ — H. J. D. 



