INSECTS CHOLEVINA (continued) Choleva spadicea, Sturm. In moss, grass tufts and dead leaves in woods. Knowle agilis, 111. In moss, grass tufts and dead leaves in woods ; all seasons. Knowle (Blatch) velox, Spence. In moss, grass tufts, hedge refuse and under bones ; all seasons and in all localities wilkini, Spence. Found in the same habitats and localities as the preced- ing, but less abundantly anisotomoides, Spence. In moss, dead leaves, hedge refuse ; all seasons. Knowle (Blatch), Stratford-on-Avon fusca, Panz. In refuse, dead leaves, moss and carrion ; all seasons. Small Heath (Blatch), Knowle nigricans, Spence. In moss, dead leaves, refuse, carcases, etc. ; all sea- sons ; abundant in all localities coracina, Kell. In carcases, especially dry ones ; all seasons. Knowle, Celesbill morio, F. In refuse, carrion and fungi ; all seasons. Co/eshi//, Sutton ; Alceiter (Blatch), Knowle grandicollis, Er. In refuse, dead moles and birds, and in fungi ; all seasons ; not common, but generally distri- buted nigrita, Er. In refuse, moss, fungi, carrion, etc. ; all seasons ; all localities - tristis, Panz. Habitats and distribution same as preceding kirbyi, Spence. In carcases and vege- table refuse ; all seasons. Knowle, Small Heath ; Sutton (Blatch), Edg- baston chrysomeloides, Panz. Vegetable refuse, moss, grass tufts in bogs, carrion ; all seasons ; abundant everywhere fumata, Spence. Found under similar conditions as preceding, and equally abundant watsoni, Spence. Habitats and distri- bution as preceding Ptomaphagus sericeus, F. In moss, refuse, etc. ; all seasons ; plentiful every- where Colon serripes, Sahl. The late Mr. Blatch took what he believed to be this species on the windows of the wait- ing-room at Knowle Railway Station dentipes, Sahl. In stack refuse, etc. Knowle dentipes var. zebei, Kr. Knowle (Blatch) brunneum, Latr. In moss and stack refuse ; all seasons. Knowle CHOLEVINA (continued) Colon append iculatum, Sahl. In refuse. Knowle HISTERID^E Hister unicolor, L. In carrion, fungi, hot- beds, at sap, etc. ; all seasons. Knowle (Blatch) merdarius, HofF. In hotbeds, carrion, moss, etc. ; all seasons. Knowle cadaverinus, HofF. In carrion, dung, etc. ; all seasons. Knowle, Coleshill succicola, Thorns. In carrion, fungi and at sap ; spring to autumn. Knowle (Blatch), Solihull purpurascens, Herbst. In moss, lawn clip- pings, etc. ; all seasons. Knowle - neglectus, Germ. In hotbeds and car- cases ; all seasons. Knowle (Blatch) carbonarius, 111. In carrion, dung, etc. ; all seasons. Sutton (Blatch), Knowle 1 2-striatus, Schr. In garden refuse, haystacks, hotbeds, dung, carrion ; all seasons. Knowle (Blatch) bimaculatus, L. In hotbeds, stack re- fuse, carrion, etc. ; all seasons ; in abundance in all midland localities Carcinops minima, Aub6. In fungi on ash logs and in flood refuse. Salford Priors ; Knowle (Blatch) Dendrophilus pygmaeus, L. In nests of Formica rufa ; all seasons. Knowle (Blatch) Myrmetes piceus, Payk. In nests of Formica rufa ; all seasons. Knowle (Blatch) Gnathoncus nannetensis, Mars. In dead birds. Knowle punctulatus, Thorns. In dead birds, etc. Knowle (Blatch) Saprinus nitidulus, Payk. In carrion, dung, hotbeds, etc. ; all seasons ; all places aeneus, F. In carcases, dung, etc. Knowle Plegaderus dissectus, Er. Under bark of decaying logs ; all seasons. Salford Priors Abraeus globosus, HofF. In rotten wood, fungi, etc. ; all seasons. Salford Prion ; Sutton (Blatch), Knowle granulum, Er. In rotten wood and under bark ; all seasons. Salford Prion Acritus minutus, Herbst. In hotbeds and vegetable refuse ; all seasons ; abun- dant in all localities nigricornis, HofF. In hotbeds, fungi, etc. ; all seasons. Knowle (Blatch) Onthophilus striatus, F. In dung and vegetable refuse ; all seasons ; abun- dant in all localities 103