226 THE entomologist's record. 



disposal of horse manure, fly papers, and later on wire gauze fly killers, 

 were issued to the troops, but these weapons seemed to make but little 

 impression on the numbers of this insect foe. One other point was 

 that M. dorneMica occurred practically all the year round, though some- 

 what less frequently in the winter months, and did not, as in England, 

 wait until May or June to come out in any considerable numbers. 



Coleoptera in the Worthing District. 



By H. DONISTHORPE, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 

 Having spent nine weeks at West Worthing (from May 31st ta 

 August 2nd) this year, I was able to put in a certain amount of col- 

 lecting, and the following paper is the result as far as the Coleoptera 

 are concerned. As there do not seem to be many records from this 

 part of Sussex, it seems as well to publish a complete list of all the 

 beetles I captured, whether common or otherwise, with a few notes on 

 the rarer species, or anything of interest. 



Excursions were made to various parts of the Downs, such as 

 Findon, with its early English Church, half way up the down ; Chanc- 

 tonbury, crowned on top with a grove of beeches — the celebrated " Chanc- 

 tonbury Ring ; " Highdown, with the tomb of the eccentric Miller on 

 the down, and fine woods at the back ; Lancing Clump; and Cissbury 

 with its Ring, and the remains of the gigantic earthworks of the ancient 

 fort of Cissa ; etc. 



Cissbury is a most delightful place for a day's excursion ; here 

 butterflies were abundant, especially the " Dark Green Fritillary " 

 {Argynnis aglaia) ; and I captured a specimen of the "Leaden Foot- 

 man " [Lithosia sericea). Towards the end of my stay " white " butter- 

 flies occurred literally in thousands at West Worthing. 



I have used the following abbreviations for the different localities 

 where beetles were captured : — Cissbury = " C " ; Findon = " F " ; 

 Goring = "G"; Great Salvington = " GS " ; Goring Woods =" GW " ; 

 Lancing="L" ; Sompting = " S"; West Worthing = " WW." 



I must thank Dr. Cameron and Dr.- Sharp for naming Bomalotae,. 

 and Mr. W. E. Sharp for kind help with some of the critical species 

 of other genera. 



Ai)iara hifrons Gyll. "WW": Harpalus riipicola Stm. "WW"; 

 Tachypns flavipBs Jj. "G" ; Dromius meridionalis Dj. " WW." Dromius 

 sp ?, under bark of a very old Tamarisk tree at West Worthing. This 

 insect belongs to the subgenus Calodromins Reitter, of which A-rino- 

 taius Pz. is the type. It comes nearest to that species, but differs in 

 having an entirely black thorax, which is very much narrower than in 

 4:-rinotatus ; the puncturation of the head and thorax is also closer, etc., 

 etc. It does not agree with any other species in the European List, 

 but as I only took a single spe(jiimen, it is best perhaps not to describe 

 it as a new species. Brachinus crepitans L. " C " ; Helophorns brevi- 

 palpis F. " C " ; Aleochara lanuginosa Gr. " WW " ; Drusilla canalicu- 

 lata F., with D. niger at West Worthing, etc. Honialota canibrica 

 Woll., H. splendens Kr., and H. hepatica Er., these three nice species 

 were all taken by sweeping on the Downs at Findon. H. funqicola 

 , Th. " GW " ; H. analis Gr. " S " ; H. boletobia Th. " GW " ; B. 'nigra 

 Kr. "WW": Bolitobiiis lumilatus L. and B. exoletns Er. " GW " ; 

 Mycetoporus splendens Marsh. " F " ; Ocypiis olens Mtill. " WW " ; O. 



