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than the antennae. Most of the species are very slug-gish 

 and are found on the borders of ponds, etc., or attached lo 

 stones or logs in streams. The genera Sphacridiuni, 

 Cercyon, etc., are found ahnost exclusively in dung- or vege- 

 table refuse, and are essentially land insects, while the re- 

 mainder of the family are found in or in the neighbourhood 

 of water. 



Family Hydrophilid^. 



Hydrobiits fi/scipes, L. common in ponds and on salt marshes, 

 absent or almost so from peat mosses. D. K. 



Hydrohuts fuscipes v picicriis, Thoms. the form almost invari- 

 ably found on peat mosses where it is fairly common. 



D. K. W. 



Fhilydrus marilimus, Thorns, a single specimen recorded from 

 Corsemalzie by Gordon. W, 



F. melanoccphalus^ Brit. Auct. [fiiscipennis^ Thoms.), common 

 on peat mosses. D. K. W, 



P. :iigricuus, Zett. not common, almost if not entirely con- 

 fined to peaty ground in this district. D. K. 



P. minutns, F. common on peat mosses. D. K. \V. 



P. coarctatiis, Gredl. fairly common but local, more common 

 in ponds than on peaty ground. K. W. 



Anacaei/a globulus^ Payk. common and general. D. K. W. 



A. limbaia, F. not common, Lochar Moss, Maxwelltown 

 Loch, Rockcliffe, near Lochfoot, near Newton-Stewart. 



D. K. W. 



Helochares pmiclatiis, Sharp, scarce, Lochar Moss, Kirk- 

 connell Moss, Rockcliffe, Corsemalzie. D. K. W. 



Laccobius ytenensis, Sharp, not common Colvend, Rockcliffe, 

 River Ken, Kells. K. 



L. nigriceps, Thoms. not common, New Barean Loch, Col- 

 vend, Nith, Urr. K. 



L. dliitacciis, Thoms. fairly common. K. 



