INSECTS Lathridiid/e {continued) Corticaria umbilicata, Beck, (cylindrica, Mann.). In moss ; very local. Chattenden, Strood, Shooters Hill. Mr. Walker records it as being much less common than it used to be — fulva, Com. I have a record of this species from ' Kent,' but I consider it to be doubtful — clongata, Humm. In refuse, moss, etc. ; generally distributed and com- mon — fenestralis, L. (rufula, Zett.). As the preceding ; not common, and usually occurs singly. Chattenden, Chatham, Darenth Wood, Sevenoaks Melanophthalma gibbosa, Herbst. In moss, haystack refuse, etc. ; abundant everywhere — transversalis var. w^ollastoni, Wat. In moss, haystack refuse, etc., and also in and among rushes on the coast ; rare, but plentiful some- times where it occurs. Sheerness, Darenth Wood, Chatham, Kingsgate. We do not apparently possess the type form in Britain — fuscula, Humm. In moss, refuse, etc. ; very common — fulvipes. Com. (curta, Woll.). Sandy places on the coast, in decaying sea- weed and at roots of grass ; locally common CucujiD^ Pediacus dermestoides, F. Under bark and in chinks of freshly cut oaks, etc. ; very rare. Cobham Park (Walker) Lsemophloeus bimaculatus, Payk. Under bark of oak, beech and hornbeam ; very rare. Gore Court near Beantal (Gorham), Bromley, Kent (under oak bark) — duplicatus, Waltl. Under bark of beech, oak, etc., also in fungus ; very local, and as a rule rare. Cob- ham Park, rare in dry fungus ; Maidstone, Farnhorough, Bromley (in numbers) — pusillus, Schon. In a granary at Strood; probably introduced — ferrugineus, Steph. In haystack refuse, in granaries and under bark ; com- mon ; probably introduced • — ater, OI. In dead stems of broom ; rare. Darenth Wood — clematidis, Er. In dead stems of Cle- matis vitalba ; rare. Gravesend (Janson), Dartford (Champion) CucujiD.-E [continued) Brontes planatus, L. Under bark of dead beech trees ; very rare. Blackheath (Douglas) Psammachus bipunctatus, F. Marshy places, in refuse, etc. ; local. Lee, Higham, Rainham, Snodland, Strood, Bearsted, Wickham, Birchington, Folkestone Silvanus surinamensis, L. In sugar, in granaries, etc. ; an introduced species ; not uncommon. Cobham Park, by sweeping — unidentatus, F. Under bark of oak, beech, etc. ; local. Cobham Park — similis, Er. Very rare ; one specimen in a birch faggot, Cobham Park (J. J. W.). Mr. Champion has taken it abundantly at Esher in Surrey, but only in dead branches of Scotch fir BYTURIDiE Byturus sambuci. Scop. On flowers ; rather common — tomentosus, F. On flowers, especially on raspberry blossoms ; common Cryptophagid^ Diphyllus lunatus, F. In the black fungus and under bark of old ash trees ; rare. Chatham, Sheerness Telmatophilus sparganii, Ahr. In stems of Sparganium, Typha, etc. ; rare. Pegwell Bay, Hythe, Sandwich — caricis, Ol. In stems of Typha, also by sweeping in marshy places ; com- mon. Snodland, Sheerness, Lee, Hythe — typhsc. Fall. In stems of Typha, also in flood refuse, etc. ; locally com- mon. Snodland, Chatham, Sheerness, Hythe — schonherri, Gyll. As the preceding ; not uncommon. Sheerness, Deal ■ — brevicollis, Aubc. As the preceding ; rare. Sheerness, Birchington, Pegwell Bay, Sandwich, Hythe Antherophagusnigricornis, F. On flowers; also in and about nests of humble bees, and taken attached to the bees in flight ; rather common — pallcns, Gyll. Often in and near humble bees' nests ; rare, ^teen- down Warren, Chattenden, Cobham Park, Darenth Wood, Folkestone, Dover, Birchington, Kingsgate, etc. — silaceus, Herbst. By sweeping ; prob- ably with humble bees ; rare. Dar- land Hill (very rare), Darenth (Food, Gravesend, Deal, Folkestone 149
