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 INSECTS CHOLEVINA (continued) Choleva anisotomoides, Spence. Aldbury, plentiful in dead leaves fusca, Panz. Aldbury, rare morio, F. Wihtone, rare ; four taken under dead reeds at the reservoir, April, 1900 grandicollis, Er. Tring Park, rare, in fungus growing on an elm nigrita, Er. Tring, rare, in dead leaves tristis, Panz. Tring kirbyi, Spence. Aldbury, not common, in dead leaves chrysomeloides, Panz. - . fumata, Spence. J watsoni, Spence. Aldbury Ptomaphagus sericeus, F. Tring Colon serripes, Sahl. Wihtone, rare, by sweeping near the reservoir dentipes, Sahl. Felden (Piffard) brunneum, Latr. Tring latum, Kr. Near Bovingdon, in moss, in winter Bathyscia wollastoni, Jans. Tring, very rare, once found in some hedge clippings HISTERID^ Hister unicolor, L. 1 7- cadaverinus, Hoff. J * purpurascens, Herbst. Tring, rare carbonarius, 111. Tring 1 2-striatus, Schr. Tring Park, rare ; New Barnet (Newbery) bimaculatus, L. Wigginton Common, rare Saprinus nitidulus, Payk. Tring aeneus, F. Wihtone, scarce virescens, Payk. Felden (Piffard) Abraeus globosus, Hoff. Wihtone, in rot- ten elm stump Acritus minutus, Herbst. Tring Onthophilus striatus, F. Tring ; New Bar- net (Newbery) SCAPHIDIID^ Scaphisoma agaricinum, L. Tring Park boleti, Panz. Wihtone, in old willow stump TRICHOPTERYGID^E Pteryx suturalis, Heer. Tring, under bark and in rotten wood Ptinella testacea, Heer. Aldbury ; I once found a rather large colony under bark of beech Trichopteryx atomaria, " - . De G Tring', New - grandicollis, Mann. - fata, Mots. Trichopteryx cantiana, Matth. (?) Near Flaunden, one specimen in a moist wood, among dead leaves fascicularis, Herbst. Tring seminitens, Matth. Wihtone ; a species occurs commonly at the reservoir, which Mr. Champion says agrees with specimens he has from Kent, named seminitens sericans, Heer. (?) } T . bovina, Mots. J brevipennis, Er. Wihtone, common, in dead reeds, moss, etc., at the reser- voir picicornis, Mann. (?) Wihtone, rare ; a few in an old poplar stump chevrolati, All. Tring Nephanes titan, Newm. Tring, rather common, in garden refuse Ptilium kunzei. Heer. 1 - . AH f Tring spencei, All. foveolatum, All. Tring, scarce, in a piece of rotten matting Millidium trisulcatum, Aub6. Tring, not common, in refuse Ptenidium fuscicorne, Er. Wihtone, com- mon, under dead reeds at the reser- voir, in spring nitidum, Heer. Tring evanescens, Marsh. Tring; New Bar- net (Newbery) atomaroides, Mots. Tring; Mr. J. W. Shipp told me he found this species at the reservoirs, but I have not met with it myself kraatzi, Matth. Wihtone, six speci- mens found in a rotten poplar, which agree well with the descrip- tion of this species formicetorum, Kr. Wihtone. A con- siderable number of specimens of a Ptenidium taken with the preceding puzzled me much for some time ; they were finally identified as this species by Mr. Champion CORYLOPHID-ffi Orthoperus kluki, Wank. (?) Aldbury atomus, Gyll. Little Tring, very rare Corylophus cassidioides, Marsh. Wihtone, not uncommon at the reservoir Sericoderus lateralis, Gyll. Tring; New Barnet (Newbery) COCCINELLID^: Aldbury Subcoccinella 24-punctata, L. and Tring Hippodamia variegata, Goeze. Aldbury, rare