208 THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
It is curious to note that although my observations have been
made in a garden, up to the present not one example of the
group Phytophaga has been found, every other group of the
British Coleoptera (with the exception of the rare Strepsiptera)
being represented in the list. I was rather surprised to find
Bembidium littorale and B. lampros in some numbers, as members
of this genus delight in damp situations, preferably by running
water, whereas my garden is rather sandy and dry. Colymbetes
fuscus undoubtedly made a mistake during night migration
from one pond to another, as is common with many other aquatic
forms. Close proximity to the forest accounts for visits from such
species as Melanotus rufipes, Clytis arietis, Niptus hololeucus,
and Ernobius mollis, which are wood borers either in the
larval or adult stages.
The lull list is as follows:—

Carabus nemoralis
C. violaceus.
Notiophilus biguttatus
Nebria brevicollis
Bradycellus verbasci
Pterostichus madidus
Calathus cisteloides
C. flavipes
C. melano-cephalus
Bembidium littorale
B. lampros
Trechus minutus
Dromius quadrinotatus
Metabletus foveola
Colymbetes fuscus
Cercyon haemorrhoidalis
Cercyon unipunctatus
Aleochara fuscipes
Ocypus olens
Necrophorus humator
Silpha sinuata
S. rugosa
Choleva tristis
Adalia bipunctata
Halyzia 22-punctata
Coccinella 7-punctata
Rhizobius litura
Hister cadaverinus
Omosita discoidea
O. colon
Aphodius fimetarius
A. contaminatus
A. fossor
Geotrupes stercorarius
Melanotus rufipes
Athous haemorrhoidalis
Agriotes sputator
Telephorus lividus
T. pellucidus
Malachius bipustulatus
Niptus hololeucus
Ernobius mollis
Clytus arietis
Tenebrio molitor
Apion sp. ?
Phyllobius pyri
P. argentatus
Hypera nigrirostris