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pany with Quedius fruncicola ; P. turgidum, in decaying beech. 

 Syperaspis reppensis, one specimen, crawling on a log. Triplax russica, 

 in abundance, in fungoid growth on beech. Omosita depressa, one 

 specimen, in a dead hedgehog ; not previously seen alive in the south 

 by us. Gryptarcha strigata and C. imperialis, and Ips ^-guttata, at 

 sap. Thymalus Zm5rt^««s, freely, under loose bark. Synchita juglandis, 

 Gicones variegatus, and Ditoma crenata, sparingly, in beech ; of the 

 first-mentioned a few specimens were found under bark. Pediacus 

 dermesfoides, rarely, in freshly split oak and beech. Enicmus festaceus, 

 rarely, under bark ; E. miniitus, a few specimens of a black variety (?) 

 in fungoid growth on beech, in company with abundance of Gonino- 

 mus nodifer. Gartodere elongata, sparingly, in rotten wood. Grypto- 

 phagus pulescens, on flowers of honeysuckle. Mycetophagus pieeus,\n 

 fungoid growth on oak, and M. atomarius, in beech. Tiresias serra, 

 one specimen, on a beech log. Trox sabidosus, in a dead bird. ITopIia 

 philanthus, on sallows. Gnorimus nohilis, one specimen, on a rose. 

 Anfhaxia vitidula, on various flowers, sparingly and extremely local. 

 Agrilus viridis, a good many specimens on old sallows, in which it 

 breeds ; the sexes were found in copula, the females constantly differing 

 from the males in having the thorax and under-surface brassy or 

 coppery [the females thus fitting Kiesenwetter's description of his 

 var. b (Naturg. Ins. Deutschl., iv, p. 151)] ; all the males obtained 

 were green above and beneath ; this (like A. sinuatus) is a destructive 

 insect on the Continent, and it also attacks the oak and the poplar ; the 

 larva has been described by Aube and Ferris. Melasis buprestoides, 

 not rarely, on a hot sunny day, when the insect was found sitting 

 outside its burrows in a decaying beech. Microrrhagiis pygmcBus, 

 rarely, by sweeping the bracken beneath old beeches, also in the en- 

 closures under oaks. Pllater pomonce and PI. lytTiropterus, very rarely 

 on stumps or under bark. Athous rhombeus, a fair series, including 

 both sexes, by splitting up beech logs ; some of the specimens were 

 dug out of very hard apparently quite sound wood ; the larva (which 

 has been described by Dufour) is black, and coarsely punctured above. 

 Sericosomus brunneus, sparingly, by sweeping. Go^ymbites Jiolosericeus, 

 G. metallicus, G. bipustulafus, and G. tessellatus, on sallows, &c. Lam- 

 pyris noctiluca, males frequently attracted to light. Podnbrus nlpinus, 

 very abundant, on flowers, &c. Malthodes dispar, by sweeping. Dasytes 

 niger, in Ilieracium and other flowers. Tillus elongatus, a few speci- 

 mens of the typical and one of the black form, about the burrows of 

 Ptilinus jyec/inicornis. Lyctus canaliculatus, Dorcutoma Jlavicomis, 

 and Anitys rubens, in decaying oak ; as usual, dead specimens only of 



