INSECTS STAPHYLINIDAE (continued) STAPHYLINIDAE (continued) STAPHYLINIDAE (continued) Homalota graminicola, Gyll. halobrectha, Sharp puncticeps, Thorns. occulta, Er. In fungi beyond Truro viaduct fungivora, Thorns. picipes, Thorns angustula, Gyll. Swanpool, Fal- mouth caesula, Er. At the roots of grass among stones at Carbis Bay circellaris, Grav. cuspidata, Er. In cracks in a Scotch pine, Bishop's Wood, Truro analis, Grav. S. decipiens, Sharp depressa, Gyll. aquatica, Thorns. aeneicollis, Sharp xanthoptera, Steph. euryptera, Steph. trinotata, Kr. triangulum, Kr. fungicola, Thorns. boletobia, Thorns. ravilla, Er. palustris, Kies. oblita, Er. sericea, Muls. indubia, Sharp. St. Mary's, Stilly (Champion) nigra, Kr. sordidula, Er. cauta, Er. villosula, Kr. marcida, Er. longicornis, Grav. In dead sheep, Rame (Keys) sordida, Marsh. S. testudinea, Er. In decaying leaf-mould at Bodmin pilosiventris,Thoms. St. Mary's, Stilly (Champion) - laticollis, Steph. - orbata, Er. Newjuay fungi, Grav. S. var. dubia, Sharp orphana, Er. Three specimens at Looe, 1901 Gnypeta labilis, Er. Tachyusa flavitarsis, Sahl. Banks of the Fotvey near Lostivithiel atra, Crav. In a tiny marsh by the Lynher Xenusa uvida, Er. Cremyll and Whitsand Bay (Keys) sulcata, Kies. S. Falagria sulcata, Payk. thoracica, Curt. Under stones with Myrmica ranz,-between Par and Luxulian obscura, Grav. S. Autalia impressa, Ol. rivularis, Grav. Gyrophaena affinis, Mann. gentilis, Er. Gyrophaena nana, Payk. minima, Er. Agaricochara laevicollis, Kr. Leptusa fumida, Er. analis, Gyll. Valley of the Lynher Sipalia ruficollis, Er. testacea, Bris. Found by Keys under stones below high- water mark at Mount Edg- cumbe Bolitochara bella, Mark. Actocharis reading!, Sharp. De- scribed from specimens ob- tained by Reading and Wol- laston in the neighbourhood of Plymouth. In March, 1886, it was found by J. J. Walker at Falmouth ' on the undersides of large stones sunk in the sands in places where a little trickle of fresh water came down from the cliffs above.' Lately it has been taken by Keys on the shore at Mount Edgcumbe in decaying sea-weed upon shingle Phytosus spinifer, Curt. In de- caying sea-weed, Whitsand Bay east balticus, Kr. Whitsand Bay, often abundant (Keys) ; in dead star-fish, Gyllyngvase, Falmouth nigriventris, Chevr. Occurs with balticus at Whitsand Bay, but is rare. Keys, who found it there, says 'The type does not appear to occur, as all the examples I have taken have three and four black abdominal segments instead of the usual two and a half only.' (E. M. M. for 1903, p. 19) Diglossa mersa, Hal. Occurs under stones below high- water mark at Mount Edgcumbe (Keys) ; near the mouth of the Helford river ; St. Mary's, Stilly Hygronoma dimidiata, Grav. Marshy land near Altamun Oligota inflata, Mann. pusillima, Grav. granaria, Er. apicata, Er. Found under dead moss at Bishop's Wood, Truro, in large numbers in 1901 Myllaena brevicornis, Matth. Gymnusa brevicollis, Payk. Above Trebartha Hypocyptus longicornis, Payk. S. [The other species of this genus have not been deter- mined] 191 Conosoma littoreum, L. pubescens, Grav. pedicularium, Grav. Land's End (Isabell) lividum, Er. Tachyporus obtusus, L. formosus, Matth. Has been taken about Land's End, chiefly by Isabell solutus, Er. chrysomelinus, L. humerosus, Er. tersus, Er. hypnorum, F. S. pusillus, Grav. S. transversalis, Grav. Lamprinus saginatus, Grav. A single example discovered in moss on the outskirts of Bishop's Wood, Truro in 1 900 Cilea silphoides, L. Tachinus flavipes, F. Taken at the Scawswater saw-mill near Truro humeralis, Grav. bipustulatus, F. rufipes, L. subterraneus, L. S. var. bicolor, Grav. marginellus, F. laticollis, Grav. Penzance Megacronus cingulatus, Mann. Taken occasionally on Thui- dium tamariscifolium on old hedgebanks about Truro analis, F. inclinans, Grav. One speci- men under larch poles at Scatvsuiatcr Bolitobius lunulatus, L. trinotatus, Er. pygmaeus, F. Mycetoporus lucidus, Er. splendens, Marsh. Land's End (Isabell) ; on path behind Moresk Mill, Truro lepidus, Grav. longulus, Mann. splendidus, Grav. Habrocerus capillaricornis, Grav. Trichophya pilicornis, Gyll. Heterothops binotata, Er. Under sea-weed near Newyuay ; St. Mary's, Stilly dissimilis, Grav. Among sea- weed, Downderry and else- where Quedius microps, Grav. Taken from a rotten oak near Kilk- hampton mesomelinus, Marsh. var. fageti. Thorns. fulgidus, F. S. cruentus, Ol. cinctus, Payk. fuliginosus, Grav. tristis, Grav. molochinus, Grav.
