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fungonim, lurking under the bark of the topmost branches, at a preat height ; and 
another example in grass at the roots of a neighbouring tree. The solid wood of 
this beech-tree was much drilled in many places by Tomicus Saxesenii, which I 
occasionally found alive and perfect, crawling on the surface, but more often dead 
and decayed under the bark or in the mouths of its burrows. Its drill-holes are 
very small and neatly cut. Decayed bark of the same tree swarmed with Myce- 
tophagus multipunctatus ; and I also saw many (but caught few) of Ptinella 
denticollis under similar circumstances. Fhlwopora reptans, Rhinosimus ruficollis, 
Homalota cuspidata, Omalium vile (much varying), Quedius cruentus (with its 
variety with elytra dark, all but the suture), and such species of minor importance, 
constantly occurred. 
Under bark of another tree, in Wimbledon Park, so long ago dead as to be undis- 
tinguishable by me specifically, I found one LcemophlcBus himaculatus, more Tomicus 
Saxesenii, Phlaiopora, Ischnoglossa corticalis, the yellow var. of Rhizophagus hipustu- 
latus, apparently quite mature, and mixed with full-coloured examples, Ev/plectus 
Karstenii, Omalium iopterum (also in dead leaves) , and, — a strange tenant, — Ocypus 
ater, usually found under chalk at the sea-side. I have twice, and in localities at 
some distance from each other, found this species here under similar conditions, 
I have found the common 0. morio and 0. compressus also here, in their usual 
habitat ; and one fine example of the (southernly) rare 0. fuscatus, in " Judas' ear" 
fungus on a felled elm, accompanied by the commoner ScapMsoma. 
Sifting refuse at the bottom of a hay-stack close to my small garden has pro- 
duced Stilicus geniculatus, accompanied by two of its commoner brethren, in some 
numbers; also CryptopTiagus hadius, C. afinis (not uncommonly), and the pallid 
form of C. scanicus, a puzzler to beginners ; Aphodius porcatus ; Philonthus debilis 
(common), and P. hipustulatus (with a curious and apparently hitherto unrecorded 
variety, in which the red spots behind the middle are absent, but replaced by a 
distinct reddish hinder margin to each elytron ; — the insect being quite distinct 
from P. agilis) ; Quedius hum,eralis, Heterothops dissimilis, Haploglossa, pratexta ; 
8cydm<Bnus /wrticoUis, with the three apical joints of its antennae equally anchylosed 
on each side, simulating an abrupt clava, and exciting wild hopes when seen 
crawling over the paper by the naked eye ; Onthophilus, Corylophus, myriads of 
Lathidius ruficollis, and divers Conuri, Steni, Oxypodce and Tachini, "quos nunc 
enumerare longum est." 
Similar working at leaves, twigs, and cut grass on my own premises afforded 
me a male of the very rare Hoynalota ohlita, H. pagana (of which I also found several 
specimens at the root of a willow near the river), divisa, occulta, clientula, amicula, 
palustris, aterfima, &c. j Atomaria fuscipes, Tachyporus scOaiIus, Megarthrus, MicrO' 
peplus, &c. 
I also found Zeugophora and Rhynchites populi on young aspens — both unusual 
autumnal sights ; and " fluked " Qracilia, Leucoparyphus, Crioceris asparagi and 
Sitophilus oryzoe in my house ; Elmis Volkmari, crawling on the canvass of my 
sculling-boat, and reminding me of former work in Scotland ; and StaphyUnus 
stercorarius, on the wing, in Putney Station. 
On barking trees by the river I bottled Crepidodera Chloris, which apparently 
abounds, and some very curious, dark, elongate forms of Cryptophagus dentatus, 
sufficiently puzzling. I was pleased to see again an old Hymenopterous friend of 
mine, the Siriciform Xyphidria, perforating one or two willows on the bank. — 
E. C. Rye, 7, Park Field, Putney, S.W., November, 1867. 
