INSECTS STAPHYLINIDAE (continued} Gryophaena manca, Er. strictula, Er. Agaricochara laevicollis, Kr. Buddon Placusa infima, Er. Gumley Leptusa analis, Gyll. Gumley (Rev. A. Matthews), only one other British specimen recorded Sipalia ruficollis, Er. Buddon, &c. under bark Bolitochara lucida, Gr. Owston Wood in fungi (Bous- kell, Donisthorpe) lunulata, Pk. n.r. Hygronoma dimidiata, Gr. Saddington Oligota inflata, Man. pusillima, Gr. flavicornis, Lac. apicata, Er. Three specimens Gumley Myllaena intermedia, Er. elongata, Mat. Thornton - gracilis, Mat. Gumley brevicornis, Mat. Deinopsis erosa, Steph. Bardon Hill and Thornton, abundant in moss at margins of reservoirs (Bouskell, Beare) Hypocyptus ovulum, Heer. r. seminulum, Er. r. discoideus, Er. Conosoma littoreum, L. Owston, n.c. pubescens, Gr. Bardon, Owston, &c. n.c. pedicularium, Gr. Gumley lividum, Er. Tachyporus solutus, Er. Klbwortk, Gumley, n.c. pallidus, Shp. Kibtvorth Cilea silphoides, L. In hot-beds n.r. Tachinus pallipes, Gr. Bardon Hill scapularis, Steph. Gumley, r. elongatus, Gyll. Seal Wood Megacronus cingulatus, Man. r. analis, F. r. Bryoporus cernus, Gr. Bardon Hill, out of moss (Bouskell). I do not know of any other recent British record Habrocerus capillaricornis, Gr. r. Heterothops praevia, Er. r. Quedius longicornis, Kr. Buddon Wood, r. microps, Gr. r. fulgidus, F. n c. cruentus, Ol. n.r. brevis, Er. Buddon Wood, with Formica rufa. I once took 50 specimens out of one nest fumatus, Steph. r. scintillans, Gr. r. in haystack refuse rufipes, Gr. r. attenuatus, Gyll. r. semiaeneus, Steph. n.c. Leistotrophus nebulosus, F. Gen. dist. murinus, L. Gen. dist. Staphylinus pubescens, DeG. Gen. dist. stercorarius, Ol. r. latebricola, Grav. Gumley, 3 specimens ; no other record for the county erythropterus, L. r. casareus, Ceder. r. Ocypus brunnipes, F. n.r. in woods Philonthus nigriventris, Th. r. quisquilliarius, var. dimidiatus, Er. This var. is found abundantly, at all our reservoirs the type is in millions. Fowler says it is not recorded from the Midlands 69 STAPHYUNIDAE (continued) Philonthus splendidulus, Gr. n.c. nigrita, Nor. n.c. micans, Gr. n.c. nigritulus, Grav. Gumley fulvipes, F. r. puella, Nor. r. Xantholinus fulgidus, F. Local atratus, Gr. Buddon, with Formica ru!a, c. tricolor, F. n r. Leptacinus parumpunctatus, Gyll. r. batychrus, Gyll. n.c. formicetorum, Mark. Buddon Wood, with Formica rufa Lathrobium rufipenne, Gyll. Local angustatum. Lac. r. Gumley. A southern species punctatum, Zett. r. Not recorded for many Midland localities fileforme, Gr. r. - quadratum, Payk. r. Achenium humile, Nic. Gumley Scopaeus sulcicollis, Steph. Gumley Medon apicalis, Kr. Gumley, only two other British localities are given by Fowler obsoletus, Nor. r. Sunius filiforme, Lat. Gumley, generally a coast and chalk insect Paederus littoralis, Grav. r. riparius, L. Market Bosworth is the only county record Evaesthetus scaber, Gr. Market Bom'orth Canal under water weeds (Donisthorpe, Bouskell) Dianous coerulescens, Gyll. Bradgate Stenus ater, Mark. Gumley canaliculatus, Gyll. r. nitens, Steph. r. fuscipes, Gr. n.c. circularis, Gr. r. crassus, Steph. r. carbonarius, Gyll. Local brunnipes, Steph. Local fuscicornis, Er. Oviston Wood (Dr. Barrow) geniculatus, Gr. Local pallipes, Gr. binotatus, Ljun. r. pallitarsis, Steph. picipennis, Er. Local paganus, Er. n.c. Oxyporus rufus, L. Bardon Hill, out of large fungi (Bouskell) m j. i , T, ("These 2 species from Gumlev Bledms longulus, Er. , . . ', .?, f-^ are of interest, as inland atricapillus, Germ. , ., .
records are not plentiful
Platystethus capito, Heer. Gumley nitens, Sahl. Gumley, usually a chalk insect Oxytelus rugosus, var. terrestris, Lac. Bradgate piceus, L. Gumley fairmairei, Pand. Gumley Ancyropherus omalinus, Er. Gumley, Fowler only gives 5 other English records aureus, Fauv. Another local species from the same locality Trogophloeus corticinus, Gr. Local Syntomium aeneum, Mull. Local Lesteva sicula, Er. Local Acidota crenata, F. r. Coryphium angusticolle, Steph. Buddon
