The Brachelytra have not had much attention paid to them in the Midlands, the group being a very large one, and the species mostly difficult to determine. These insects are plentiful in the district and many rare forms occur. A few only, comparatively, can be here specified:--_Ischnoglossa corticina_, Olton, Sutton Park, Old Hill; _Thiasophila angulata_, Hopwas Wood, Bewdley (Ants’ Nests); _Dinarda Markelii_, Bewdley (in Ants’ Nests); _Atemeles emarginatus_, Bewdley (in Ants’ Nests); _Ilyobates nigricollis_, _Callicerus obscurus_, _C. rigidicornis_, Knowle; _Tachyusa scitula_, Bewdley; _Ocyusa maura_, Coleshill; _O. picina_, Sutton Park, Bewdley; _Oxypoda exoleta_, Smallheath, _O. recondita_, Budden Wood (Ants’ Nests, _Formica rufa_); _O. sericea_, new to Britain, Smallheath, Edgbaston, Knowle. In the genus Homalota there are 160 British species, of which the writer has, up to the present, found 93 in the Birmingham district. The following may be noted: _H. currax_ and _H. insecta_, Bewdley; _H. pavens_, Smallheath; _H. eximia_, Bewdley (previously only found on banks of Scotch rivers); _H. luteipes_, Bewdley; _H. sylvicola_, Coleshill, Cannock Chase, Bewdley; _H. monticola_, Smallheath; _H. curtipennis_, Sutton Park; _H. autumnalis_, Knowle, Old Hill, Bewdley, Middleton, near Tamworth; _Gymnusa brevicollis_ and _G. variegata_ occur on Cannock Chase, the latter also at Sutton Park; _Megacronus inclinans_ may be found at Bewdley, and _M. cingulatus_ at Sutton Park and Cannock Chase; _Staphylinus latebricola_ (in Ants’ Nests), at Sutton Park and Bewdley; _Philonthus fulvipes_, Sutton Park; _Ancyrophorus homalinus_, Bewdley; _Trogophlœus halophilus_, Hopwas Wood(!); _Deleaster dichrous_ and var. _adustus_, Bewdley; _Geodromicus nigrita_, Bewdley; _Deliphrum tectum_, Knowle; _Acidota crenata_, Coleshill; _A. cruentata_, Sutton Park; _Coryphium augusticolle_, Sutton Park, Knowle, Hopwas; _Homalium Allardi_, Smallheath; _H. punctipenne_, Edgbaston, Sutton Park, Knowle, Bewdley; _H. deplanatum_, Knowle, Cannock Chase; _H. brevicorne_, Knowle; _H. gracilicorne_, Sutton Park, Hopwas Wood; _H. salicis_, Sherwood Forest; _Phlœocharis subtilissima_ and _Prognatha quadricornis_, Sutton Park, Needwood.