INSECTS PTEROSTICHINA (continued) Pterostichus anthracinus, very rare, in refuse 111. Wihtone, by the reservoir nigrita, F. Hailstone and Little Trmg gracilis, Dej. Little Tring, rare, as a rule, under stones by the reservoir minor, Gyll. Tring strenuus, Panz. Tring; Hertford (Dawson, Monograph of British Geodephaga) ; New Barnet (New- bery) diligens, Sturm. Tring ; Hertford (Stephens) striola, F. Tring, rare AMARINA Amara apricaria, Sturm. Tring aulica, Panz. Tring, sometimes seen on flower-heads bifrons, Gyll. Tring ovata, F. Tring, rare, on the hills acuminata, Payk. Tring similata, Gyll. Wigginton spreta, Dej. Hertford (Dawson, Mono- graph of British Geodephaga) familiaris, Duft. communis, Panz. continua, Thorns. plebeia, Gyll. Calathus cisteloides, Panz. flavipes, Fourc. melanocephalus, L. Tring, by no means common in the district Pristonychus terricola, Herbst. Near Bov- ingdon, in hedgerow ; New Barnet (Newbery) ANCHOMENINA Anchomenus angusticollis, F. Wihtone, scarce, at the reservoir Tring dorsalis, Mull. ) albipes, F. / oblongus, Sturm. Near Flaunden Tring marginatus, L. Little Tring anA Wil- stone, under stones by the reservoirs at these two places sexpunctatus, L. Hertford (Dawson, Monograph of British Geodephaga) parumpunctatus, F. Tring ; New Bar- net (Newbery) viduus, Panz. Hastoe, rare, in Brown's Lane micans, Nic. fuliginosus, Panz. gracilis, Gyll. piceus, L. Near Bovingdon thcreyi, Dej. Tring (1) There may be a doubt about the occurrence of this species at Tring, but Mr. J. W. Shipp told me he found it at Tring reservoirs Olisthopus rotundatus, Payk. Tring Wihtone, at reservoir the BEMBIDIINA Tachys bistriatus, Duft. Tring Bembidium obtusum, Sturm. Tring ; New Barnet (Newbery) guttula, F. Tring mannerheimi, Sahl. Wigginton Com- mon, rare biguttatum, F. Tring; New Barnet (Newbery) riparium, Ol. New Barnet (Newbery) aeneum, Germ. Wihtone ; Bricket Wood (Lewcock) fumigatum, Duft. Wihtone, sometimes not uncommon under reeds by the reservoir, in spring assimile, Gyll. Wihtone, fairly common with the preceding clarki, Daws. Wihtone and Little Tring articulatum, Panz. Tring reservoirs ; Aldbury, one in dead leaves in a dry chalky situation, and at the end of a dry summer ; New Barnet (Newbery) doris, Panz. Wihtone, rare, by the reservoir gilvipes, Sturm. Wigginton Common, scarce lampros, Herbst. Tring decorum, Panz. Little Tring, rare nitidulum, Marsh. Tring quadriguttatum, F. Tring', Bricket Wood (Lewcock) quadrimaculatum, Gyll. Tring ; New Barnet (Newbery) femoratum, Sturm, Wilstone, by the reservoir littorale, Ol. Tring flammulatum, Clairv. Little Tring Tachypus flavipes, L. Aldbury TRECHINA Trechus discus, F. Hastoe, in Brown's Lane, and Wihtone, very rare minutus, F. Tring Patrobus excavatus, Payk. Little Tring LEBIINA Lebia chlorocephala, Hoff. Tring ; Felden (Piffard) ; Hertford (Stephens) Demetrias atricapillus, L. Tring Dromius linearis, 01. Trlng . New Bar- meridional,*, Dej I ^ (Newbery) quadnmaculatus, L. ) quadrinotatus, Panz. Aldbury and Tring, in Grove Park, under holly bark melanocephalus, Dej. -j Blechrus maurus, Sturm. 1- Tring Metabletus foveola, Gyll. ' HALIPLID^E Haliplus obliquus, F. Tring, plentiful in one pond