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A feature of tlie present 3'ear was the extreme ahundaiiee of Aniso- 

 dacti/lus hinotatus and Pterosticlius coerulescens {versicolor) in the 

 early spring and again in September. 



A few specimens of the Anisodacfi/lus var. spurcaticornis, as well 

 as of A. nemorivagus wdth its var. atriconiis, occurred in 1916, and 

 still fewer this ^^ear. The Acupaljjl have also been much less frequent 

 during the present year, especially A. hrininipes, although a dark form 

 of A. dorsalis (var. iiotatus Muls. P) has been taken which might easily 

 be mistaken for it. Among the Amarae, the occurrence of A. famelica 

 is worth notice, although quite what might have been exj^ected in a 

 district so near and so similar to Woking. 



Amono- the Water Beetles but little chano^e has been noticed. 

 Coelamhus Q-lineafiis has again appeared in one of the meres, swimming 

 visibly in the clear sun-warmed water over a gravelly bottom. A single 

 capture also of Agahus unguicularis perhaps deserves notice, as it had 

 not been previously recorded from the district, but I have been unable 

 to discover Laccohins regidaris Rey again in the waters whence I took 

 it in 1915. 



This particular locality has never been remarkable for its JBracli- 

 elytra and but few noteworthy records of the group exist. One of these, 

 however, is Mr. Tomlin's capture in a heap of faggot-refuse of a single 

 specimen of ALedon apicalis in the spring of 1916. Atlieta villosula 

 and Oligota apicata may also be mentioned as some of the less frequent 

 species of their genei'a. But to me a more interesting capture was that 

 of Stapliylinus caesareus, taken running on a pathway by a fence behind 

 which was a strong nest of the ant F. rufu. Fowler states in his book 

 that this beetle is more common in the south than the north of this 

 country ; my experience of it, however, is exactly tlie reverse, and 1 had 

 never seen a Hving specimen since I found it in abundance man}' years 

 ago on the banks of the Shannon. 



The usual M^'rmecophile species have occurred without much varia- 

 tion, except that I found Wotothecta ance'ps abundant in a nest of 

 JF. rufa m January, and that Quedius brevis and My r metes piceus 

 were much more abundant than usual, associated with the same ant in 

 September 1916. 



In the Clavicorn group, perhaps the most noticeable feature of this 

 year has been the scarcity, compared with former years, of any species ©f 

 Liodes {Anisotoma'), especially of L. scita Er., of Triarthron^ and 

 of Ampliicyllis, and the best capture undoubtedly that of Ilenoticus 

 serratus by Mr. Tomlin from the same heap of faggot-refuse whence he 

 took Jledou apicalis and where Sfiliciis frag His was for a short peiiod 

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