A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE LIST OF COLEOPTERA OBSERVED IN HERTFORDSHIRE CICINDELID^E Cicindela campestris, L. Hastoe, very scarce, in Brown's Lane CARABID^E CYCHRINA Cychrus rostratus, L. Bovingdon, in a gravel pit CARABINA Carabus catenulatus, Scop. Tring nemoralis. Mull. ) _ . violaceus, L. Trmg-New Bar- monilis, F. net (Newbery) granulatus, L. New Ba met (Newbery) NOTIOPHILINA Notiophilus biguttatus, F. Tring aquaticus, L. _, . palustris, Duft. J ' rufipes, Curt. Wigginton, rare, at Gryme's Dyke NEBRIINA Leistus spinibarbis, F. 1 _, . fulvibarbis, Dej. / Tra % ferrugineus, L. Tring, occasionally beaten out of hedges Nebria brevicollis, F. Tring ; New Barnet (Newbery) ELAPHRINA Elaphrus riparius, L. Wilstone, not un- common by the reservoir cupreus, Duft. El, tree (Piffkrd) ; Hert- ford (Stephens) LORICERINA Loricera pilicornis, F. Tring ; New Barnet (Newbery) SCARITINA Clivina fossor, L. Little Tring and Wihtone collaris, Herbst. Little Tring; New Barnet (Newbery) Dyschirius aeneus, Dej. Wihtone, rather common at the reservoir PANAG.SINA Panagaeus quadripustulatus, Stm. Hertford, 4 taken in profusion under stones and clods of earth ' (Dawson, Monograph of British Geodephaga) Badister bipustulatus, F. Tring sodalis, Duft. Tring, often found in dead leaves and moss, on the hills peltatus, Panz. Tring,onc specimen only LlCININA Licinus depressus, Payk. Tring, very rare, on chalky ground under stones ; near Payne's End. In March STENOLOPHINA Acupalpus dorsalis, F. Wihtone, under dead reeds at the reservoir exiguus, Dej. Wigginton Common, plentiful in moss growing on a pond bank ; Chipperfield (PifFard) brunnipes, Sturm. Near Hertford 1 (Stephens) meridianus, L. Tring consputus, Duft. Wihtone, rare, under dead reeds by the reservoir Bradycellus placidus, Gyll. Wihtone, scarce, by the reservoir distinctus, Dej. .. verbasci, Duft. L Tring harpalinus, Dej. J similiSjDej. Wigginton Common,very rare HARPALINA Harpalus punctatulus, Duft*. Hertfora (Stephens) azureus, F. Rossway, near Wigginton, one example running in roadway ; Hertford (Stephens) rupicola, Sturm. Tring, scarce, on the hills puncticollis, Payk. Tring rufibarbis, F. Tring, rare ruficornis, F. aeneus, F. j- Tring rubripes, Duft. ' latus, L. Aldbury and Tring PTEROSTICHINA Stomis pumicatus, Panz. Tring ; New Bar- net (Newbery) Platyderus ruficollis, Marsh. Felden (Pif- fard) Pterostichus cupreus, L. f _- . versicolor, Sturm. / Trt ** lepidus, F. Hertford (Dawson, Mono- graph of British Geodephaga) madidus, F. "j niger, Schall. ! Tring vulgaris, L. J Chlaenius vestitus, Payk. Little very scarce, under stones nigricornis, F. Elstree (PifFard) Tring, 1 This locality is not quoted by Fowler in his work on British Coleoptera, possibly on account of uncertainty as to the identity of Stephens' specimens. 2 Harpalut ntundicolTis, H. punctatulus, and H. azureus are all moderately common insects on the sheltered southern slopes of the Chilterns, about Chesham in Bucks ; but I have searched the hills at Tring, only a few miles distant, most assiduously for these members of the Ophonus group without any success ; this fact is all the more striking, as there is a large area of uncultivated chalky ground at Tring, where they might well be expected to occur ; their absence must probably be attributed to climatal differences. 86
