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One example from a hard boletus {F. radiatus) 

 growing on elm, Gibside, October, 1904. This 

 fungus, besides several good little LaihridiidcB, 

 Epurcea, Cryptophagus, etc., contained iimumerable 

 small pinkish coleopterous larvae which Mr. Donis- 

 thorpe kindly identified as the larvae of O. micans. 

 *2669. Clinocara tmdulata, Kr. 



Locally near Winlaton Mill, in numbers on fungoid 

 growth, beneath bark of small trees (Ento. Mo. Mag., 

 May, 1904). I have taken odd examples this year, 

 three (two 2 's and one (?) in a dry and fallen branch 

 (April 30th), and two (<? and ? ) on a brown growth 

 covering this branch (May 13th). Those taken on 

 April 30th were very fresh looking, the elytra of one 

 of them were not quite hard, so I think they must 

 have been but shoitly emerged from the pupae. 

 Search as I would for pupae I was not successful, 

 taking, instead, a cocoon and pupa of Campylus 

 linearis, near foot of tree (Ento. Record, 1904, p. 261). 

 2672. Melandrya caraboides, L. 



From birch stump near Winlaton Mill, June, 1904. 

 2685. Salpingtis castaneus, Pz. 



"Rare" (N. H. Trans., p. 83). 



By beating a dead-oak hedge, September, 1903, 

 Lockhaugh. 

 2693. Rhinosimus viridipennis, Steph. 



Rare. Under plane-tree bark, May, 1903, Gibside. 

 2728. Metoecus paradoxus, L. 



Metoecus paradoxus, L., in the Derwent Valley. 



On September 12th, 1902, 1 took a fine example of 

 Metcecus paradoxus, L., from a common dock flower 

 growing by the river side at Lockhaugh, near 

 Rowlands Gill; whilst again on October i6th of the 

 same year I met with another specimen, this time 

 clinging to bracken, scarcely fifty yards distant from 

 the locality of my first capture. That which I took 

 in September was a male, and in comparison with 



