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 INSECTS ALEOCHARINA (continued) Homalota boletobia, Thorns. Tring liturata, Steph. Near Bovingdon, very local, but usually plentiful where found coriaria, Kr. Tring, three or four taken from large piece of fungus growing on old beech stump ; usu- ally found in cut grass, etc. I once had a number sent me, which were found in an old disused squirrel's nest sodalis, Er. Tring humeralis, Kr. Tring, very rarely seen, but the species is really common in one or two of the woods at Chesham, close to the county border gagatina, Baudi. Tring divisa, Mark. Tring, a decidedly com- mon species near the town, found chiefly in dead animals nigricornis, Thorns. Aldbury Common ravilla, Er. Wihtone, four specimens under refuse at the reservoir, Decem- ber, 1898 palustris, Kies. Tring corvina, Thorns. Aldbury Common^ in fungus on old stump puberula, Sharp. Tring, one only in dead leaves on the hills atomaria, Kr. Flaunden, one found floating on a pool of water perexigua, Sharp. Wihtone, very rare, under refuse at the reservoir, April, 1898; Aldbury, one taken by sweep- ing scapularis, Sahib. Tring testaceipes, Heer. Aldbury, rare, in dead leaves, October oblita, Er. Tring autumnalis, Er. Wihtone, very rare, in moss at the reservoir. By searching under the bark of fallen boughs, in marshy places during September, this species would probably be discovered in other parts of the county sericea, Muls. "j indubia, Sharp. L Tring atricolor, Sharp. J inquinula, Grav. Wigginton Common and Hastoe nigra, Kr. Tring hodierna, Sharp. Wihtone, very rare, a few specimens found at the reser- voir under dead reeds, April, 1897 ; and one more two years later germana, Sharp. Tring, almost as plentiful as nigra in the district celata, Er. Near Bovingdon, very rare sordidula, Er. Tring ALEOCHARINA (continued) Homalota canescens, Sharp. Tring, often found in decaying fungi on the ground cauta, Er. Tring villosula, Kr. Tring, scarce atramentaria, Gyll. Tring marcida, Er. Tring, found in some of the woods in decaying fungi, rather late in the autumn ; the specimens found in this district seem uniformly darker than those taken in the vicinity of London and further south intermedia, Thorns. Aldbury, one only in dead leaves longicornis, Grav. Tring ; New Bar- sordida, Marsh. ) net (Newbery) testudinea, Er. Tring, not very often seen, but sometimes common where it occurs aterrima, Grav. , . muscorum, Bris. / pilosiventris, Thorns. Near Bovingdon, two in a dead bird laticollis, Steph. Tring montivagans, Woll. Tring, very rare, one taken by sweeping, June, 1896 fungi, Grav. Tring, very abundant everywhere, and the var. clientula with it ; New Barnet (Newbery) orphana, Er. Little Tring, one only taken by sweeping Gnypeta labilis, Er. Tring, very abundant on the banks of the reservoirs, and most variable both as to size and coloration Tachyusa atra, Grav. Wihtone, found sparingly by the reservoir concolor, Er. Wihtone, with the pre- ceding ; one year when the reservoir was very low this insect swarmed on the exposed mud ; Bovingdon (Piffard) Falagria sulcata, Payk. Tring sulcatula, Grav. Wihtone, scarce, in moss, etc., at the reservoir thoracica, Curt. Tring, rare obscura, Grav. New Barnet (Newbery) Autalia impressa, Ol. y r/ - H _ rivularis, Grav. J Encephalus complicans, Westwood. Wil- stone, rare, one in moss growing on side of ditch ; Baldock, one specimen (Wood) Gyrophaena pulchella, Heer. Felden (Pif- fard) affinis, Mann. Tring gentilis, Er. Tring, not common nana, Payk. fasciata, Marsh. J