INSECTS Meligethes rufipes, Gyll. Tring ; New Barnet (Newbery) lumbaris, Sturm. Aldbury and Tring, on flowers of Verbascum thapsus and Umbelliferae coracinus, Sturm. Tring, one only, on Origanum vulgare, in a chalkpit aeneus, F. Tring viridescens, F. Wihtone difficilis, Heer. ] memnonius, Er. Tring brunnicornis, Sturm. ) viduatus, Sturm. Tring, a few speci- mens in flowers of Ballota nigra, in Grove Park bidens, Bris. Tring, usually found in flowers of Scabiosa arvensis umbrosus, Sturm. Aldbury, rare ovatus, Sturm. flavipes, Sturm. Tring picipes, Sturm. ) serripes, Gyll. Tring; this insect seems most abundant early in the spring lugubris, Sturm. Aldbury, scarce. obscurus, Er. Aldbury erythropus, Gyll. Aldbury and Tring, a common species on the chalk solidus, Sturm. Aldbury, on Helianthe- mum vulgare Cychramus luteus, F. - . fungicola, Heer. / J * Cryptarcha strigata, F. Wigginton Com- mon imperialis, F. Watford (Lewcock) TROGOSITID^E Tenebrioides mauritanicus, L. Tring, oc- casionally found in flour, oatmeal and other stores COLYDIID.E Cicones variegatus, Hellw. Aldbury ; I once found twenty specimens under bark of a beech, on Aldbury Outers Cerylon histeroides, F. Near Bovingdon, scarce fagi, Bris. Aldbury and Tring, under bark of beech CUCUJID/E Rhizophagus cribratus, Gyll. Tring (Pif- fard) depressus, F. Wihtone ; Hertford (Stephens) parallelocollis, Er. Tring, rare ferrugineus, Payk. Aldbury bipustulatus, F. Tring Lsemophlceus ferrugineus, Steph. Tring, often met with in the woods under bark of beech ; Hertford (Stephens) Psammoschus bipunctatus, F. Wihtone, scarce, at the reservoir ; Hertford (Stephens) ; Baldock (Wood) Silvanus surinamensis, L. Tring, once seen in a house ; Baldock (Wood) MONOTOMID^E Monotoma spinicollis, Aub6. Tring, scarce picipes, Herbst. Tring ; New Barnet (Newbery) quadricollis, Aub. Tring. rufa, Redt. Tring, in haystack refuse LATHRIDIID^E Holoparamecus depressus, Curt. Hertford (Stephens) Lathridius lardarius, De Geer. Tring angulatus, Humm. Tring, rare, in old hedges Coninomus nodifer, Westwood. Tring carinatus, Gyll. Tring, rare, once found in a house Enicmus minutus, L. 1 - . transversus, Ol. / Cartodere ruficollis, Marsh. Tring, scarce, in haystack refuse Corticaria pubescens, Gyll. Tring crenulata, Gyll. Wihtone denticulata, Gyll. Tring elongata, Humm. Tring; New Barnet (Newbery) fenestralis, L. Aldbury, rare, in moss on a chalky bank Tring Melanophthalma gibbosa, Herbst. fuscula, Humm. CRYPTOPHAGID^ Diphyllus lunatus, F. Near Flaunden, once found in numbers in black fungus, on old ash stump ; Baldock (Wood) Telmatophilus caricis, Ol. Wigginton and Miswell Antherophagus nigricornis, F. Tring pallens, Gyll. Aldbury ; Tring (Pifiard) Cryptophagus lycoperdi, Herbst. Tring, not common in the district setulosus, Sturm. Tring pilosus, Gyll. Tring, rare, in haystack refuse punctipennis, Bris. saginatus, Sturm. J- Tring scanicus, L. J badius, Sturm. Wihtone, rare, in refuse by the reservoir dentatus, Herbst. Tring distinguendus, Sturm. Wihtone, rare, under dead reeds acutangulus, Gyll. cellaris, Scop. J- Tring afHnis, Sturm. J 99
