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jiilicornn, and Bcvlhtcr bip\(fitulatHs, of both of which only three speci- 

 mens have been met, and Clilaoiins ninrieoniift (five specimens in 1897, 

 not seen since). The large Carabid genera, too, appear to be very 

 poorly represented in species, and I may mention that only three of 

 Harjmlus, five of Aiiiara, and nine of llcmbidium, have been observed by 

 me up to the present. The apparent absence of the genus FAajihnis, 

 in a district so well provided with streams and watercourses, seems 

 very strange. Having regard to its size, Notinphiln^ is probably the 

 only genus of this family in which we are well represented, five of the 

 British forms occurring more or less commonly, and the sixth {i-jmnc- 

 irtf».s) will, I think, turn up. 



Pymmes Park, Edmonton, which was formerly private property, 

 was, toward the end of last year, opened as a public park, and I took 

 an early opportunity this year of making an entomological explora- 

 tion of it. The groimds, which consist of rather more than fifty 

 acres, possess very little timber sufficiently decayed to harbour the 

 beetles frequenting such situations, the few species found being of the 

 commonest description. Searching among dead leaves and other refuse 

 under a hawthorn hedge which borders the Park on one side, was, how- 

 ever, not unproductive. Here, on a sandy soil, I found XntiophilKs 

 rnfipes, somewhat common, accompanied by A\ suhstriatns, X. binnttaiiiK, 

 Calathiis piceuft, and two other commoner species of the latter genus in 

 abundance, together with a single Fatrohns c.vcavatus. Amongst the 

 XotiopJdli is a specimen with three impressions on the elytra, and 

 another, which has the facies of nijipc^, has the legs coloured as in 

 bi(j>tttatitfi. Out of the hedge itself I beat during June a feAv weevils, 

 including FJiamplntfiflaricnnufi in some numbers, and Maijdali^ cerasi (1). 

 In August I was much surprised to find scattered along it a colony of 

 Cliri/siniu'Ia lamina. Learning that the hedge was eventually to be 

 replaced by a wall, which would destroy their habitat, I did not 

 hesitate to take all I could find, and I got 15 fine specimens. Most of 

 them were concealed in crevices at the roots of the short dry grass 

 bordering the hedge, and these were very difficult to discover, so well 

 were they hidden. A few, however, were amongst the dead leaves, and 

 it was the taking of one of these which put me upon the track of the 

 others. What plant they could have subsisted upon I cannot imagine, 

 as except a few stunted shoots of (ihrJiomahedcmcca, none were visible 

 near. Amongst dead leaves at the foot of an oak on the opposite side 

 of the Park I found on ]\Iarch 6th a single example of Plati/dcnis ruji- 



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IMy other Lea Valley captures were made chiefly on the marsh land, 

 which' forms the; bulk of the collecting ground. A visit to Jloydon on 

 ]\Iarch 19th, in company with my friend Mr. W. Hawker Smith, pro- 

 duced a number of I'hv/iodi'ra irrsintlora hibernating under willow-bark, 

 in the locality in Avhich we had found it during the previous August, 

 when, from ignorance of its identity, only a few specimens were taken. 

 A single lldcdona a;iarin)la turned up in soapy fungus on a willow at 

 Chingford Ferry, April 17th and a good series of Scap/iidcina nn'tallinon 

 in the crevices of a stump close by. Sweeping in i\Iay and June in the 

 marsh fields produced a host of insects, including Cori/tubites tcssdlatiix, 

 Halticapaliistris{2), (iri/piiliKs ('(jiiiscti (8), PJii/tdbiiOi i-tnbrrciilati(>i (2), 

 Hjijx'm >^iispiri()!^a, Jlari'^ T-albuw (common), etc. On June 5th I got 

 six Mvlandri/a caruboiilcs, five on a rotten willow pole used as a garden 



