iQM- Nicholson. — CoUoptera from Cavan and Meath. 69 
Cambridgeshire and Norfolk fens before they were drained, 
but was supposed to be extinct until Professor Beare took 
a specimen at Stalham, in Norfolk, in 1910.^ P. minor, 
GylL, not uncommon in wet places ; Anchomenus gracilis, 
GylL, common by sweeping; A. puellus, Dej., common 
on very marshy ground. Deronectes depressus, F. ; Hy- 
droporus umbrosus, Gyll., in moss by the side of a lake ; 
Rhantus exoletus, Forst., in a ditch. 
Omalimn vile, Er., one in moss ; 0. caesum, Gr., several 
specimens in a large fungus on an old elm ; 0. punctipcnnc, 
Th., under the bark of a log ; Acidota crenata, F., one in 
moss in a wood ; Stenus fuscipes, Gr., S. carbonarius, GylL, 
5. bifoveolatus, GylL, in moss by the side of a lake (the 
last two species have been already recorded from the Co. 
Cavan, see Johnson and Halbert, I.e.) ; Evaesthetus rufiea- 
pillus, Lac, very plentiful in company with the preceding ; 
Pacdcrus riparius, L., not uncommon in hay -refuse ; Lath- 
robium quadratum, Pk., five specimens in moss by side of 
lake; L. terminatum, Gr., plentiful with the preceding; 
Othius melanoeephalus , Gr. ; O. myrnieeophilus, Kies. ; Ae- 
tobius eineraseens, Gr., very common in swamps, and in 
wet moss ; Philonthus umbratilis, Gr., P. fumarius, Gr., 
by shores of lake ; Staphylinus eaesareus, Ceder. ; S. 
erythropterus, L. ; Myllaena dubia, Gr., in damp moss ; 
Oligota inflata, Mann. ; Alcoehara sueeieola, Th. 
Rybaxis sanguinea, L., very common in wet moss by 
the side of a lake. Most of the specimens were somewhat 
immature ; Bythinus bulbifer, Reich. ; B. validus, Aube, two 
specimens in moss in a wood ; Pselaphus dresdensis, Hbst., 
two specimens by the side of a lake in a piece of moss that 
had been scraped up by a rabbit. Although I devoted 
considerable time in an attempt to find more of this species, 
I was unsuccessful. Neuraphes elongatulus, MiilL, one in 
moss in a wood. 
Choleva agilis, 111., one in flood refuse ; C. Wilkini, 
Spence, several in moss in a wood ; Agathidium margina- 
^ Ent. Mo. Mag., xlvi., p. 281. 
