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 A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE DASCILLID^E Dascillus cervinus, L. Aldbury, rather plentiful on the hills about the village Helodes minuta, L. Tring Microcara livida, F. Near Bovingdon, in a moist wood Cyphon coarctatus, Payk. Tring nitidulus, Thorns. Tring ; New Barnet (Newbery) variabilis, Thunb. ) . . padi, L. J ' Prionocyphon serricornis, Mull. Felden (PifFard) Scirtes hemisphsericus, L. Wihtone, scarce, by the reservoir MALACODERMID^ LAMPYRINA Lampyris noctiluca, L. Tring and Aldbury ; the females are constantly met with in dead leaves and moss in winter, and I have occasionally seen the males fly in some numbers to a lamp when sugaring for Lepidoptera Phosphsenus hemipterus, Geoff. Felden (Piffard) ; this species was at one time considered to be an accidental introduction to these islands, and it has only been found in two or three localities in Sussex ; Mr. Piffard's capture is most interesting as an additional proof of the fact, now accepted, that this insect may be re- garded as indigenous TELEPHORINA Telephorus fuscus, L. Hertford, abun- dantly (Stephens) rusticus, Fall. lividus, L. pellucidus, F. Tring nigricans, Mail. lituratus, F. bicolor, F. Tring ; New Barnet (New- bery) hsemorrhoidalis, F. Tring, fairly com- mon flavilabris, Fall. Wihtone, common, at the reservoir thoracicus, Ol. Wihtone, scarce, at the reservoir Rhagonycha fuscicornis, Ol. Tring ; New Barnet (Newbery) ; Hertford (Ste- phens) fulva, Scop. Tring, very common in July, limbata, Thorns pallida, F. ! Tring Malthinus punctatus, Fourc. J fasciatus, Ol. Tring, rather common balteatus, Sufrr. Aldbury, rare TELEPHORINA (continued) Malthodes marginatus, Latr. 1 ^ . - minimus, L. } **** fibulatus, Kies. Tring, not uncommon in some of the woods atomus, Thorns. Wihtone, scarce MELYRINA Malachius bipustulatus, L. Tring; New Barnet (Newbery) viridis, F. Puttenham, scarce, by the canal Axinotarsus ruficollis, Ol. Hertford (Stephens) Anthocomus fasciatus, L. Miswell, rare ; Hertford (Stephens) Dasytes aerosus, Kies. Hastoe Phloeophilus edwardsi, Steph. Aldbury Common, rare, one knocked off an old oak bough ; Ashridge (PifFard) CLERID.E Tillus elongatus, L. Hemel Hempstead (PifFard) ; Hertford (Stephens) unifasciatus, F. Hertford (Stephens) Necrobia ruficollis, F. Tring, rare, in dry horse's skin violacea, L. Tring, with the preced- ing Corynetes caeruleus, De G. Tring, occa- sionally seen in old houses ; Hertford (Stephens) PTINID.E PTININA Niptus hololeucus, Fald. Tring, scarce, as far as I know, in the town crenatus, F. Baldock, one in a nastur- tium flower (Wood) Hedobia imperialis, L. Tring, Duckmore Lane, etc., frequently to be found, in and flying about old hedges ; Hert- ford (Stephens) ANOBUNA Dryophilus pusillus, Gyll. Hastoe, not common, in fir plantation Priobium castaneum, F. T ' Anobium domesticum, Fourc. / fulvicorne, Sturm. Tring, rare, in old hedges paniceum, L. Tring, frequently seen in the house. This species seems to be one of the most omnivorous of in- sects. I have seen poisonous drugs, such as aconite root, infested and spoilt by it, and it is not deterred by hot aromatic substances, as the rhizome of ginger and capsicum fruits Ernobius mollis, L. Tring, scarce ; New Barnet (Newbery) 102