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 A HISTORY OF KENT BuPRESTlD>« {continued) oak, birch, etc. ; very local. Darenth Wood Agrilus angustulus, III. As the preceding ; very local. Darenth Wood Aphanisticus pusillus, Ol. By sweeping, in moss, etc. ; rare. Chattenden, Strood, Deal, Folkestone Trachys minuta, L. On sallows and hazels ; local. Chattenden, Chatham, Darenth Wood — pumila, 111. By sweeping short herb- age ; in moss and at roots of Marru- bium vulgare, etc. ; very rare. Cob- ham Par-^, eight examples in 1897-8 — troglodytes, Gyll. In moss and on flowers ; rare. Cuxton, one speci- men (J. J. W.) ; Chatham ; Folke- stone (Waterhouse) ThROSCIDj^ Throscus dermestoides, L. Often com- monly found by evening sweeping ; generally distributed and common — carinifrons, Bonv. By evening sweep- ing ; very local. Cobham Park, Chat- tenden, St. Marys Island (rather plentiful, J. J. W.), Sheppey, Chisle- hurst, Tonbridge (in numbers, A. C. Horner) — elateroides, Heer. At roots of grass; often in salt marshes, and by evening sweep- ing ; very local. Rainham, St. Mary's Island, Chatham, Sheerness, Cowley — obtusus. Curt. In moss, haystack refuse, etc. ; not common as a rule and very local, but occasionally in numbers. Lee, Sheerness, Darland Hill, Chatham EUCNEMID^ Melasis buprestoides, L. In decaying beech and hornbeam ; local. Cobham Park, sometimes plentiful (J. J. W.) ; Seven- oaks, Darenth Wood, Tonbridge ElateriDj* Lacon murinus, L. On grassy hillsides, under stones, etc. ; common Cardiophorus asellus, Er. Sandy places, at roots of grass and by sweeping ; very local and as a rule rare. Faver- sham, Darenth Wood, Birch Wood Cryptohypnus quadripustulatus, F. Damp grassy places ; scarce. Lee, Cowley Elater sanguinolentus, Schr. At roots of heath, on nettle flowers, etc. ; rare. Darenth Wood — pomonas, Steph. Very rare. Darenth IFood (Stephens), but this record re- quires confirmation — elongatulus, F. In decaying oaks ; very rare. Darenth Wood (Power) ELATERiDii: [continued) Elater balteatus, L. On birches ; occasion- ally in rotten wood of oak and birch ; not uncommon. Darenth Wood, Birch Wood, Abbey Wood, Shooters Hill, and probably general Ischnodes sanguinicollis, Panz. In rotten wood and fungus ; rare. Greenwich, Blackheath, Sheerness Ludius ferrugineus, L. In decayed trees ; very rare. Darenth Wood; the species has not been taken for many years Melanotus punctolineatus, Pel. Sandy places, at roots of grass, etc. ; rare. Pegwell Bay, Deal, Dover — rufipes, Herbst. In rotten wood and on the wing ; common var. castanipes, Payk. In rotten wood; rare. Cobham Par k{]. ]. W .), Tonbridge (Horner) Athous rhombeus, Ol. In decaying trees and logs ; also on bracken ; very rare. Cobham Park, one specimen, (H. A. Maling) — niger, L. By sweeping in woods ; not uncommon — longicollis, 01. By sweeping in woods ; not uncommon — difFormis, Lac. By sweeping, especially at night ; not common. Eastry (Got- ham) ; Ramsgate,'m alders(Stephens) ; Sandwich (Waterhouse) ; St. Peter's, Isle of Thanet (T. Wood); Deal (Hull) — hasmorrhoidalis,F. On bracken, !;szels, birches, etc. ; very common through- out the kingdom — vittatus, F. As the preceding, but local. Darenth Wood Limonius cylindricus, Payk. By sweeping in damp places ; rare. Birch Wood — minutus, L. On flowers, etc. ; local, but not uncommon Adrastus limbatus, F. By sweeping in grassy places in woods ; local. Sheerness, Chatham, Sevenoaks — pusillus, F. By sweeping long coarse grass in open ground. Sandwich (E. A. Waterhouse), Deal and Dover (Hall) Agriotes sputator, L. Under stones, at roots of grass, etc. ; common and generally distributed — obscurus, L. As the preceding ; very common — lineatus, L. As the preceding ; very common — sordidus. 111. Sandy coasts and banks of rivers, under stones and in flood refuse ; very local and usually rare.