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by searching and sweeping the herbage, and which must be classed as 

 summer and therefore, pei'haps, fugitive visitants. It is worth noting 

 that I found nothing in the summer time which did not also occur in 

 the spring and autumn ; but it was rather a revelation to me to learn, 

 as I did from practical experience, that most of the species that 

 occurred in the early and late months of the year, and which I con- 

 cluded were then in their winter quarters, and would be off and away 

 when the warm weather set in, were to be turned out of the moss and 

 soil in the hot months as certainly as in the colder seasons. 



Many of these beetles were obtained by simply plucking up the 

 moss and shaking it over paper ; but the most productive method was 

 to cut out a slice of the bank and carefully knock it to pieces with the 

 trowel. Several species were found to have penetrated as much as 

 six or eight inches into the earth, at which depth I have frequently 

 come upon large colonies of Clivina fossor^ incJiomenus parumpunc- 

 tatus, two or three species of Lntlirohium, and other beetles. 



It is somewhat curious that I have captured here two species 

 which hitherto I had never found except in fungi, viz., Somalota 

 marcida and Liodes humeraJis. 



My visits have always been of short duration, but I never went 

 without taking something fresh, sometimes two or three, and at others 

 as many as tweiity or thirty additions. 



Without attempting to give a complete summary of my captures, 

 I may say that besides nearly all the species of Tachyporus and many 

 of Stenus, I have taken here 9 species of Amara, 8 of Cercyon, 11 of 

 ChoJeva, 51 of HomaJota, 9 of Quedius, and 23 of Philonthus. 



A full list of species being probably too long to be inserted in the 

 Magazine, it must suffice to mention the following as amongst the 

 more interesting of my finds : — Cyclirus rosiratus, Amara acuminata, 

 A. lunicollis, A. nitida, A. continua, Helopho^'tis dorsalis, Choleva spa- 

 dicea, Colon brunneum, Scydmcenus SparshaUi, Oxypoda spectahilis, 

 Somalota ohJongiuscula, H. linearis, H. pilicornis, H. ignohilis, H. 

 atotnaria, H. intermedia, JI. parva, H. testudinea, H. pilosiventris, 

 Bucephalus complicans, Philonthus addendus, P. lucens, Actohius pro- 

 lixus, Lathrohium longulum, Oxytehis Fairmairei, Deliphrum tectum, 

 Coryphium angusticolle, Homalium septentrionis, H. exiguum, Meligethes 

 obscurus, Corymbites pectinicornis (J a-iid ?, November), Apion dif- 

 forme, Orobitis cyaneus. 



214, Green Lane, Smallheath, Birmingham : 

 December 5th, 1889. 



