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west coast is very close, even if it does not actually overlap. Mr. J. F. 

 Dutton has an example of C. maritima which was given to him, mixed 

 with specimens of C. hybrida, by a collector named Davies, of Birk- 

 dale, who said that he only collected locally, With regard to the 

 Norfolk coast it may fairly be| said that the two species occur on the 

 same ground. Mr. W. West and myself have both collected on that 

 pai-t of the sand-hills north of Great Yarmouth which is most 

 accessible on foot from that town ; we have each taken a specimen of 

 Cicindela there ; Mr. West's, taken in June, 1904, is C. hybrida and 

 my own, taken on June 14th, 1883, is C. maritima. A most interesting 

 specimen, if it could only be found, would l)e the one recorded under 

 the name of hybrida by the late Prof. Harker, in Proc. Perth Soc. Nat. 

 Sci. as from " Glenfarg (Tay)." Dr. Sharp writes me that Grlenfarg 

 is in the Forth district, a pass of the Ochils to Tay, and in no sense a 

 maritime locality. 



Marsham (Ent. Brit. 1802) does not include any littoral species 

 of Cicindela, but Sowerby (Brit. Misc. No. 5. t. 18. April 8th, 1805) 

 figured under the name of C. hybrida an insect of which two specimens 

 were found by L. W. Dillwyn in May, 1803, on the Crumlyn Bui-rows, 

 about three miles from Swansea. Judging from the shape of the 

 median band of the elytra this was G. maritima. Haworth, writing 

 in 1806 (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., I, 1812) said that the same insect 

 had been taken on sandy groimd near Yarmouth by W. J. Hooker (subse- 

 quently Sir W. J. Hooker of botanical fame) and the Rev. J. Burrell. 

 The latter got a single specimen of what he calls C. hybrida on the sand- 

 hills near Cley on April 24th, 1810. In 1824 Curtis (Brit. Ent. t. 1), 

 under the name of sylvicola, Megei'le, figured a Cicindela, which by 

 the shape of the median band on the elytra, would be C. hybrida ; the 

 elytra in this figure are as green as those of C. campestris, and the 

 author says that the specimen was taken in Epping Forest in June, 

 1820 ; it would be interesting to know whether C. hybrida occurs there 

 now ; although the latter is best known in this covmtry as a littoral insect 

 it is found, according to M. Bedel, at Fontaiuebleau. Stephens (Illus. 

 Mand. I t. 1. f. 1. 1827) figures under the name of riparia, Megerle, 

 a specimen of which he did not know the locality, and which might 

 well be an ordinary purple-l)rown example of hybrida. Ganglbauer 

 regards both these last-named figiu"es as representing C. hybrida. 



M. Bedel (Col. Bass. Seine, I, p. 4, 1881) calls attention to 

 certain long white hairs across the back part of the head in maritima 

 which are wanting in hybrida ; these hairs, however, are so fragile in 



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