INSECTS SPHJERIDIINA (continued) Cercyon terminatus, Marsh. Knowle analis, Payk. All localities lugubris, Payk. Knowle granarius, Er. minutus, Muls. Knowle and Solihull Megasternum boletophagum, Marsh. In vegetable refuse, moss, dung, fungi, etc. ; abundant everywhere Cryptopleurum atomarium, F. Habitat and distribution same as preceding NOTE. All the Hydrophilidae are to be found throughout the year. STAPHYLINID^E ALEOCHARINA Aleochara ruficornis, Grav. In moss, vegetable refuse, etc. ; rare. Button Park fuscipes, F. In dead animals, fungi and vegetable refuse ; all seasons ; abundant everywhere brevipennis, Grav. In grass tufts in marshy places. Knowle bipunctata, Ol. In moss, grass tufts, dead leaves, hedge refuse, etc. ; all seasons, sparingly. Tysoe ; Salford Priors, Sutton Park (Blatch), Knowle and Solihull cuniculorum, Kr. In moss and under dead moles. Knowle lanuginosa, Grav. In moss, grass tufts, dead leaves, dung, etc. ; at all seasons and in all localities lygaea, Kr. In dead birds and moles, etc. ; rare. Knowle (Blatch, June 1893), (the author, 1899) villosa, Maun. In moss and decaying leaves ; rare. Knowle - succicola, Thorns. In moss ; rare. Knowle mcesta, Grav. Habitat and distribution same as A. lanuginosa mcerens, Gyll. In carrion, fungi, dead leaves, moss, etc. ; rare. Knowle (Blatch) nitida, Grav. In moss, hedge rubbish, dung, etc. ; all seasons ; all localities nitida var. belineata, Gyll. At sap on oak stumps ; spring to autumn ; scarce. Knowle (Blatch, record only), near Coleshill morion, Grav. Abundant in dung, hotbeds, moss, grass tufts and fungi ; all seasons ; all localities Microglossa suturalis, Sahl. Bottoms of haystacks, in cowsheds, moss and grass tufts ; all seasons. Edgbaston ; Sutton Park (Blatch), Knowle I 89 ALEOCHARINA (continued) Microglossa nidicola, Fairm. In and near nests of sand martins. Found abun- dantly in spring and summer in all localities where the sand martin builds Oxypoda spectabilis, Mark. In grass tufts, vegetable refuse, etc. ; rare. Knowle lividipennis, Mann. In moss and hedge refuse and in decaying fungi. Found throughout the year in all localities opaca, Grav. In hotbeds, vegetable refuse, etc. ; abundant everywhere at all times alternans, Grav. In fungi ; all seasons ; abundant everywhere exoleta, Er. Under bones at Small Heath (Blatch) ; under bark, Sander- land Coppice, Knowle leutula, Er. Amongst decaying leaves, etc., on margins of ponds in woods ; all seasons ; scarce. Knowle (Blatch) umbrata, Grav. In moss, grass tufts, under bones and bark ; all seasons. Knowle, Olton, Small Heath (Blatch), Knowle pectita, Sharp. Under bones and stack refuse ; rare. Knowle, under bones (Blatch) ; Knowle, stack refuse nigrina, Wat. In moss, grass tufts, hotbeds and under bark, etc. Knowle, Tysoe, Small Heath, Coleshill, Sutton (Blatch) mutata, Sharp. Knowle (Blatch) - longiuscula, Er. In damp places ; all seasons ; abundant everywhere formeceticola, Mark. In nests of For- mica rufa. Knowle hzmorrhoa, Mann. In moss, hot- beds, under bark and in nests of Formica rufa ; all seasons. Edgbaston, Sutton (Blatch), Knowle waterhousei, Rye. In vegetable refuse, in marshy places. Knowle (Blatch, record only) soror, Thorns. In moss on oak trunks. Knowle (Blatch, record only) annularis, Sahl. In moss and dead leaves ; scarce ; all seasons. Knowle (Blatch) brachyptera, Steph. Found by the late Mr. Blatch, and also by the author in an old cowshed at Knowle Thiasophila angulata, Er. In nests of Formica rufa ; local. Near Tarn- worth (Blatch), Knowle Ischnoglossa prolixa, Grav. Under bark of dead trees ; abundant ; all seasons. All localities 12
