208 • ' September, 



about a dozen of the blue tyTpc-iorm) , parallelus (1), rubripes, and caspius (in great 

 numbers) ; Licinus depressus rare (also at Cobham Park, but I did not see a single 

 specimen of the commoner L. silphoides, usually to be taken freely enough on the 

 Chatham chalk-hills) ; Stomis pumicatus in plenty ; Amara apricaria, consularis, 

 patrioia (rare), ovata, similata (the commonest of its genus), acuminata, lunicolUs, 

 etc. ; and Brachinus crepitans, much more rarely than was the case some twenty 

 years ago (this insect being also much scarcer than formerly in the Isle of Sheppey) . 

 The same locality produced Opilo mollis, beaten out of dead clematis, Telephorua 

 fuscus, Amalua scortillum, and CeuthorrTiynchus alliaricB, by sweeping in May, and 

 Chrysomela marginalis (distinguenda) and gottingensis, walking on the paths, the 

 latter as early as March 26th. Plagiogonus arenarius was found in great profusion 

 under half dry dung on a road. 



Several brief visits to Snodland, between April 28th and May 19th, produced 

 in addition to species already recorded from this locality, Anchomenus livens, mioan.i, 

 &nd puellus, JBadister sodalis, Clivina collaris ; Cercus hipustulatux, Aphthona lu- 

 tescens and nonstriata {ccerulea), all three in great numbers ; Psylliodes duloamareB 

 and picina, CeuthorrTiynchus urtictB, rarely on Stachys palustris (not on nettle), and 

 alliaricB, Ceuthorrhynohidiua quercicola, Shinancus suhfasciatus, and Limnoharis 

 T-album, not rare. 



At Chattenden Roughs, at the end of May and in June, the following species 

 were taken* : — Staphylinus latehricola, one specimen by sweeping in a " ride ;" 

 Trachys minuta, on sallows, sparingly ; Agrilus latioomis, Faohyta collaris ; Tetrops 

 prcBusta, in the utmost profusion, along with Magdalinus atramentarius and cerasi in 

 equal numbers, on the sunny side of a hedge on May 24th, where one or two females 

 of M. barbicornis were also taken ; Lema punctioollis ; Mordellistena abdominalis, 

 several of both sexes on umbels (which also produced the scarce and pretty bug, 

 Eysareoris ceneus) ; Byctiscus betuleti, BhynchUes uncinatus and ophthalmicus; Apion 

 pomonce, vicicB, punctigerum and ebeninum, all common ; Tanymecus palliatus, Hy- 

 pera suspiciosa and murina ; Oymnetron labile, frequent ; Ceuthorrhynchus cam- 

 pestris, plentifully on ox-eye daisy ; Orobitis cyaneus, &c., &c. On July 7th, my 

 last visit to Chattenden, Oxystoma {Apion) fuscirostre, usually by no means a 

 common insect here, turned up in profusion by sweeping Genista tinctoria in flower, 

 and Mordellafasciata was just beginning to put in an appearance. 



The best things taken in three or four afternoons at Cobham Park were Abrceus 

 granulum, very sparingly in the ash tree in which it occurred in 1889, and accompa- 

 nied by Mycetophagus quadriguttatus (last year the AbrcBus could not be found at 

 all, though closely sought for at every visit) ; Philonthus decorus, Megacronus cingu- 

 latus, Euplectus nanus, Cerylon fagi, Nitidula rufipes, in dead hooded crow, Dasytes 

 oculatus, &c. 



By sweeping the rank herbage on the Extension works at Chatham Dockyard 

 I obtained Sallomenus humeralis (one on June 14th), Olibrus ohlongus, Apion 

 HooTceri, Phytobius canaliculatus, &c., &c. Bembidium minimum and riparium, and 

 Bledius spectabilis, occurred commonly in damp saline places in the same locality. 



At the end of March and in April Adelosia picimana was very common under 

 clods and stones in the Isle of Sheppey, and Pterostichus inceqtialis was equally 

 plentiful in grass tufts, with Achenium humile, by no means rare. Silusa rubiginosa 



* In addition to Osphya already recorded, c/. ante p. 163. 



