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fine oaka, newly felled and stripped of their bark ; crawling on these, 

 towards evening, I found, amongst others, Pediaciis dermestoides (3), 

 Xylotrogus hrunneus, and Xylophilus oculatus, the last also in very dry 

 and rotten oak wood, and by sweeping. Under bark of standing and 

 partly decayed beech trees, Bythinics Curtisii, Endomychus coccineus, 

 Cerylon ferrugineum, Orchesia undulata, &c., w'ere found more or less 

 commonly, and one specimen of the very rare Philonthus fuscus, Grav., 

 was taken on August 28th, under a loose flake of hornbeam bark. 



Dead boughs, sticks, and logs, lying on the ground among leaves 

 (especially when they had fungoid growth about them), were always 

 worth examining. They yielded Notlophilus riifipes, Calathus piceus, 

 Bolitochara lucida and hella not rarely, Conosoma littoreum and iinmacu- 

 latum, Homalium nigriceps, Scydmcenus Sparshalli, Liodes orbicularis 

 (not rare) and humeralis, Agathidium varians and rofundatum, AmpJii- 

 cyllis globus, ScapJiisoma boleti, Cerylon fagi, Cryptophagus riificornis 

 (in some numbers, in a fungoid growth on the under-side of an ash 

 log ; also obtained by crumbling decayed ash wood over paper, and 

 accompanied by Leptusa rtificollis, it w^as also taken by evening 

 sweeping) ; Mycetophagus piceus, Cis alni, Scaphidema cenea, and very 

 many others. 



The larger tree-fungi yielded, besides the ordinary run of common 

 things, Cis bidentatus, pygmaus and f'estivus, Dorcatoma Jlavicornis and 

 Orchesia micans ; and when decayed, Haploglossa puUa (probably 

 accidental), Quedius fulgidus and cruentus, Philonthus succicola, Leisto- 

 trophus nebulosus (common), Megarthrus hemipterus, &c. In a large 

 dry Boletus, almost like a biscuit in texture, Eledona agaricicola 

 occurred in large numbers. 



By piling up a heap of hard fungus as a trap, at the root of the 

 big ash tree where, in June last, I found Abrceus granulum, I managed, 

 in repeated visits, to obtain a good series of this little rarity, besides 

 attracting hordes of Dorcus and other more common beetles. The 

 same trap yielded, in August, the beautiful Eros jfiinutus, afterwards 

 taken in some numbers crawling on the lower part of the tree-trunk 

 on damp evenings, its brilliant scarlet and black livery contrasting 

 finely with the green moss which clothed the bark. It had evidently 

 been bred in a decayed place near the root of the tree, as some of the 

 specimens were immature ; and I also found a few on another somewhat 

 decayed ash tree, about a stone's-throw distant from the first. As 

 usual, the (J was more numerous than the $ , in the proportion of 

 about six to one. 



General sweeping, when the weather was really suitable —w^hich, 

 I am bound to say, was not very often the case — was always very 

 productive. Among the host of species obtained in this way, I may 

 mention Hypocyptus scminulum (in abundance just before sunset in 



