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woodland ride, new county record; Rhingia roslrata (L.) (Syrphidae), Streatfield Wood 

 near Brede, East Sussex, 27.viii., one female; Acinic/ corniculaia (Zett.) (Plate I, Fig. 

 8) (Tephritidae), Chailey Common, East Sussex, 19.viii, two females swept off 

 Centaurea nigra L. in tiny area of unimproved grassland at edge of common (currently 

 known from 3 sites in East Anglia with a few old records scattered in southern 

 England). 



Miles, S. R. — Asilus crabroniformis L. (Asilidae), from a new site in west Hants.; 

 Caliprobola speciosa (Rossi), hovering around very crumbly base of an old beech 

 tree at Bishopsgate in eastern part of Windsor Forest, Berks. 



Plant, C. W. — Nephrocerus scutellatus Macq. (Pipunculidae), from M25 

 Motorway southern embankment, TQ3652, Surrey, Malaise trap, 27.v-13.vi.1993, 

 which produced 1 male and 170 females; another trap 1 km west produced 26 females. 

 Both traps were near areas of oak scrub which it is known to frequent in Europe 

 where it is thought to parasitize froghoppers of the genus Mesembrius; only two 

 previous British records of the fly, King's Park Wood, Sussex and Selborne Common, 

 Hants, (both Alan Stubbs), accounting for its RDB 1 status, queried by the exhibitor 

 as many European records were from Malaise traps and it was also possibly nocturnal. 



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Alexander, K. N. A. — Three rare beetles taken in Gloucestershire during summer 

 1993; all are new localities. Lissodema cursor (Gyll.), one from ash woodland on 

 Sedbury Cliff, 1 5.viii. 1993, 2nd county record; Osphya bipunctata (F.), one from 

 hawthorn blossom, Chedworth Woods, 31. v. 1993; Grammoptera ustulata (Schall.), 

 one beaten from oak foliage, Coombe Hill Canal, 15. v. 1993. 



Alexander, K. N. A. & Foster, A. P.— A selection of the more interesting 

 beetles found during the National Trust's Biological Survey 1993 visit to North Wales. 

 The Border parks of Erddig and Chirk Castle, Denbighshire, and also the seacliffs 

 on the Lleyn Peninsula, Caernarvonshire, feature strongly. Those species believed 

 to be new to Wales are marked with an asterisk. Agabus affinis (Payk.), Dolmelynllyn 

 Estate, Mer., 9.vi.l993; Quedius ventralis (Aragona), from sap-run on horse chestnut. 

 Erddig Park, 28. vi. 1993; Geotrupes vernalis (L.), one on coastal heathland, Mynydd- 

 y-Graig, Lleyn, 16.vii.1993; Amphimallon ochraceus (Knoch), frequent at Pen-y-Cil, 

 Lleyn, 14.vii.1993, and noted elsewhere on the Peninsula; Prionocyphon serricornis 

 (Miiller, P. W. J.), swept in Big Wood, Erddig, 24.vi.1993, new to N. Wales; Sericus 

 brunneus (L.), Dolmelynllyn, 9.vi.l993; Malthinus frontalis (Marsh.), swept in Big 

 Wood, Erddig, 24. vi. 1993, the 3rd Welsh record; *Dorcatoma serra Panz., one tapped 

 from Inonotus dryadeus bracket fungus on old oak at Chirk, 19.vii. 1993; Thymalus 

 limbatus (F.), from pasture-woodland, Dolmelynllyn Estate, Mer. 9.vi.l993; 

 *Cryptarcha strigata (F.), Chirk, 19.vii.1993; Eledona agricola (Hcrbst), abundant 

 in Laetiporus sulphureus bracket fungus on old oak, Chirk, 19.vii.1993, new to N. 

 Wales; *Prionychus ater (F.), Chirk and Erddig; *Abdera quadrifasciata (Curt.), one 

 from dead lower limb of old oak at Chirk, 19.vii.1993; Donatio tkalassina Germ.. 

 Llynnau Cregennan, Mer., 22. vi. 1993; Cryptocephalus aureolus Suff., from seacliff 

 grassland, Trwyn y Ffosle, Lleyn, 8.vii.l993; Sibinia arenariae Steph., from rock- 

 spurrey, Mynydd Bychestyn, Lleyn, 13.vii. 1993, new to N. Wales. 



Booth, R. G.—Longitarsus longiseta Weise from a heathy woodland clearing in 

 East Sussex. A single female was swept in 1992; in 1993 numerous examples were 

 found on common speedwell, Veronica officinalis L. which is undoubtably the host 

 plant at this site. Formerly known as British from a single male collected in Kent 

 in 1951 by Mr A. A. Allen who described it in 1967 as Longi tarsus clarus. 



