INSECTS list from the same place, where he got it out of a bag of oak branches, and another specimen has been taken in the New Forest, and is now in the Bates collection. Rhynchites interpunctatus occurs on young hawthorn buds at Buddon Wood, and R. pubescens on oak. A single specimen of the rare Otiorhynchus ligustrici was taken at Bradgate by Mr. H. W. Bates, and Caenopsis fissirostris in the same locality. Cryphalus abietis was first discovered in England at Gumley, by Rev. A. Matthews, but has since been taken in several other localities. In the space available it is only possible to give a list of the rarer species, with brief notes on the more important ones. Most of the species not recorded by Fowler for the Midlands are specially mentioned, though it is quite possible many of them occur in our adjoining counties. ' No other Midland record ' refers to Fowler's British Coleoptera. The classification followed is that of Beare and Donisthorpe. ClCINDELIDAE Cicindela campestris, L. Bradgate, n.c. CARABIDAE Cychrus rostratus, L. n.c. Carabus catenulatus, Scop. n.c. granulatus, L. Local along Soar Valley arvensis, F. Beacon Plain Calosoma inquisitor, L. Buddon and Seal Woods Notiophilus substriatus, Wat. Market Harborough district aquaticus, L. n.c. palustris, Duft. n.c. Leistus spinibarbis, F. r. Buddon Wood (Barrow) fulvibarbis, Dej. n.c. ferrugineus, L. Local rufescens, F. Local Nebria brevicollis, F. v.c. Blethisa multipunctata, L. At the various reservoirs in some numbers Clivina collaris, n.c. Dyschirius politus, Dej. Market Bosworth aeneus, Dej. r. Badister unipustulatus, Bon. Market Bosworth sodalis, Duft. Sheet Hedges Wood, v.r. Chlaenius vestitus, Payk. Syston, v.r. nigricornis, F. Groby Pool, Thornton, n.c. var. melanocornis, Dej. Groby Pool, r. Oodes helopiodes, F. Groby, Cropston, r. Stenolophus vespertinus, Panz. Reservoirs, v.c. Acupaipus dorsalis, F. Market Harborough exiguus, Dej. Market Harborough meridianus, L. Near Leicester, n.c. Bradycellus placidus, Gyll. Market Harborough, r. cognatus, Gyll. Market Harborough, r. verbasci, Duft. Bradgate, Market Bostvorth, n.c. harpalinus, Dej. Bradgate, Market Harborough, n.c. collaris, Payk. Market Harborough, r. - similis, Dej. Bradgate, r. Harpalus puncticollis, Payk. n.c. rufibarbis, F. n.c. latus, L. Buddon, Gumley, n.c. tardus, Panz. Gumley (Matthews) Dichirotrichus pubescens, Payk. Gumley, r. Anisodactylus binotatus, F. Groby Pool (H. W. Bates) Zabrus gibbus, F. Gumley (Matthews) Stomis pumicatus, Panz. Bradgate, Leicester Frith, n.c. Pterostichus versicolor, Sturm. Gumley oblongopunctatus, F. Sutton Ambien, v.c., under chips (Bouskell) niger, Schall. Bradgate, n.c. (F. Bates) anthracinus, 111. Bradgate, Gumley nigrita, F. Bradgate, Saddington CARABIDAE (continued) Pterostichus minor, Gyll. n.c. picimanus, Duft. Soar Valley (F. Bates) ; Glen- field (Wooley) inequalis, Marsh. Gumley (Matthews) ; Stoughton (Headly) vernalis, Gyll, n.c. Amara aulica, Pz. n.c. convexiuscula, Marsh. Market Harborough bifrons, Gyll. Leicester Frith (Wooley) - ovata, F. n.c. similata, Gyll. n.c. lunicollis, Schiod. Soar Valley, r. communis, Panz. n.c. - plebia, Gyll. Local Amphigynus piceus, Marsh. Bradgate, n.r. Sphodrus leucophthalmus, L. Local Anchomenus oblongus, Sturm, r. atratus, Duft. n.c. micans, Nic. Local gracilis, Gyll. Bradgate, r. piceus, L. n.r. thoreyi, Dej. r. puellus, n.r. Bembidium aeneum, Germ. r. fumigatum, Duft. Groby Pool assimile, Gyll. c. clarki, Daws. n.c. articulatum, Panz. n.c. doris, Panz. SaJJington gilvipes, Sturm, n.c. affine, Steph. Near Leicester - femoratum, Sturm, n.c. bruxellense, Wesm. v.r. - flammulatum, Clairv. c. varium, Ol. r. obliquum, Sturm. At all the reservoirs in count- less numbers Tachypus pallipes, Duft. Loughborough flavipes, L. Stoithlana 1 , r. Trechus discus, F. n.c. nicros, Herbst. n.c. rubens, F. v.r. secalis, Payk. r. HALIPLIDAE Brychius elevatus, Panz. Local Haliplus flavicollis, Sturm, r. variegatus, Sturm. Local cinereus, Aubi. Local fluviatilis, Aub6. r. Cnemidotus impressus, F. Gumley, r. There appear to be no Midland records besides this in Fowler 6 7
