A HISTORY OF KENT Staphvlinid^ (continued) Lesteva longelytrata, Goeze. Common everywhere in moss in damp places — pubescens, Mann. Not common. Bromhy — sicula, Er. (punctata, Brit. Cat.). Local. Chatham, Snod/and, Folkeitotie Acidota cruentata, Mann. Very rare. Greenwich, Birch JVood Olophrum piceum, Gyll. Common and generally distributed Lathrimaeum atrocephalum, Gyll. Com- mon and generally distributed — unicolor, Steph. Common and gener- ally distributed Pliilorhinum sordidum, Steph. Not un- common. Darenth Wood, Shrer- ness Coryphium angusticoUe, Steph. Rare. Darland Hill, St. Mary Cray, Chat- ham Homalium rivulare, Payk. Abundant everywhere — rugulipenne, Rye. In decaying sea- weed ; very rare. Gravesend ; per- haps described in error from this locality — lasviusculum, Gyll. Common in sea- weed all along the coast — riparium, Thoms. In decaying sea- weed ; local. Sheerness, IVhitstahle, Pegwell Bay — allardi, Fairm. Rare. Eltham, Mar- gate — exiguum, Gyll. Rare. Cobham Park (Walker) — oxyacanths, Grav. Local, but widely distributed — cassum, Grav. Common and generally distributed — nigriceps, Kries. Local. Darenth Wood, Strood, Faversham — pusillum, Grav. Not uncommon under bark of fir — punctipennc, Thoms. Not uncommon under bark of birch and beech — rufipes, Fourc. (florale, Payk.). Rather common — salicis, Gyll. Rare. Beanted near Maidstone (Gorham) — vile, Er. Generally distributed and common under bark — iopterum, Steph. Local but not un- common. Bexley, Chatham — planum, Payk. Under bark and at sap ; local, but not uncommon. Cob- ham Park, Darenth IVood — concinnum. Marsh. Common — deplanatum, Gyll. Rare. Darland Hill, Tonbridge Staphylinid^ [continued) Homalium striatum, Grav. Not uncom- mon. Cobham Park, IVhitstable, Sheerness, Pegivcll Bay, Maidstone, Deal Hapalarasa pygmaea, Gyll. Not common. Sheerness, Birch Wood, Cobham Pari, Darenth Wood, Bromley, Tonbridge Eusphalerum primula, Steph. Very local. Chatham, Chattenden, Maidstone Anthobium minutum, F. Local. Cobham Park — ophthalmicum, Payk. Generally dis- tributed and common — torquatum. Marsh. Generally distri- buted and common Proteinus ovalis, Steph. (brevicollis, Er.). Generally distributed and common — brachypterus, F. Generally distributed and common — macropterus, Gyll. Scarce. Cobham Park, Chattenden, Birch Wood, Chat- ham, Sheerness, Tonbridge — atomarius, Er. Local. Darenth Wood, Faversham, Brasted Megarthrus denticollis. Beck. Local. Sheerness, Rochester district. Ton- bridge — affinis, Mill. Not uncommon — depressus, Lac. Generally distributed — sinuatocollis, Lac. Generally distri- buted and common — hemipterus. 111. Very local, but com- mon where it occurs, in putrid fungi. Darenth Wood, Chatham, Sheerness, Tonbridge, Mereworth, Sevenoaks Phlceobium clypeatum, Milll. Widely dis- tributed Phloeocharis subtilissima, Mann. Very local and not common. Sevenoaks, Tonbridge Pseudopsis sulcata, Newm. Very rare. Kingsgate, one specimen Prognatha quadricornis, Lac. Local. Cob- ham Park, Chatham, Erith, Tonbridge, Kingsgate Leptinid^ Leptinus testaceus. Mull. Rare. Chatham, Cobham Park (about thirty examples in debris about the entrance of a nest of a humble bee (J. J. Walker) SlLPHlD^ Calyptomerus dubius. Marsh. Local. Lee Clambus pubescens, Redt. Not uncom- mon. Chatham, Darenth Wood, etc. — armadillo, De G. Not uncommon. Lee, St. Mary Cray — minutus, Sturm. Scarce. Cobham Park 140