58 THE BEETLES OF THE EASTERN COUNTIES. 



orbicularis, Rhizophagus perforates, Tryphillus suturalis, Dyphyllus 

 lunatus* Agrilus laticornis,* Cis kispidus, Strophosomus vetusus, Hypeva 

 plant aginis, Onthophilus striatus,* Mycaeta hirta, Monotonia quadri- 

 cottis,* and Stilicns fragilis.* I am surprised, in comparing these 

 meagre records with the Victoria History list, to find among them 

 no less than ten additions to the county list ; these are marked 

 with an asterisk. 



Since my enumeration of our Coleoptera last year, thirty- 

 three species have been added to the " Coleoptera of Suffolk," 3 

 and Mr. James Edwards, F.E.S., has added seven species in the 

 Transactions of the Norfolk Naturalists' Society, 1904, pp. 744-5, 

 to the 1,796 species which he had previously noticed from 

 Norfolk. 4 A comparison of the Essex list with these is most 

 instructive — all the following one hundred and seventy-four 

 species are hitherto quite unknown to occur in either of the more 

 northern counties. I have taken the opportunity of appending 

 a comparative table, illustrating the distribution of the various 

 groups in the Eastern Counties. The only species I have 

 excluded from the Essex list is Brachinus sclopeta, a. very doubtful 

 insect as British, which should be placed in the same category 

 as Chrysomela gloriosa in Suffolk and Cardiop horns riificollis in 

 Norfolk; nor have I included my own records, mentioned above, 

 in so unofficial a review as the present. 



BEETLES PECULIAR TO ESSEX. 



GEODEPHAGA Hydropoms rivalis 



Dyschirius cxtensus Agabus biguttatus 

 Stenolophus elegans 



Acupalpus computus PALPICORNIA 



Anisodactylus pccciloides Paracymus nigro-ceneus 



Pterostichus inaqualis Spercheus emarginatus 



Anchomenus atratus Ochthebius ceneus 



„ junc cits Hydraeua nigrita 



Benibidium paludosum 



Trechus lapidosus BRA CHEL YTRA 



Microglossa gentilis 



HYDRADEPHAGA Oxypoda cxoleta 

 Hydropoms celatus ,, lentula 



3 The Coleoptrra of Suffolk, by Claude Morley, F.E.S., &c. Plymouth, J. H. Keys, 

 Printer, Whimple Street, 3s. 6d. 



4 Fauna and Flora of Norfolk, part xii. : Coleoptera. By James Edwards, F.E.S. 

 {Trans. Norf. Soc, 1893, P- 427-50S); "Additions," lib. cit. 1S99, pp. 515-527. 



