1897.] 9 



tending to witliin a short distance of tlio anal extremity ; all these portions light 

 brown, smooth, shining, and without sculpture ; segmental rings'yellowish, rounded 

 up rather fully ; anal segment extremely blunt ; cremaster broad, with short, widely 

 divergent points. 



The pale yellowish moth is sufficiently well known to require no 

 description here ; the only exception to the monotony of its colour is 

 in the fronts of the anterior tibiae, which are dark smoky-brown ; 

 indeed, there are not many instances among the Lepidoptera of so 

 great constancy in colour from the egg to the perfect insect. 



No alarm need, I think, be felt at the immigration of the insect 



now noted ; it appears unable to maintain itself in our moist climate. 



In my own experience the moth has been taken in plenty about the 



granaries of the docks at King's Lynn, yet no instance of its spreading 



abroad among the barns or grain stores of Norfolk was, so far as I can 



ascertain, ever observed. 



39, Linden Grove, Nunhead, S.E. : 

 November tth, 1896. 



TEN DAYS' COLLECTING (COLEOPTERA) AT BRANDON, SUFFOLK 

 BT CLAUDE MORLET, F.E.S. 



On September 16th last, I met Mr. Ernest Elliott, E.I.Inst., who 

 came from the opposite direction, at Brandon Station, and we imme- 

 diately settled down to work the Coleopterous fauna of the district. 

 The weather during the second half of September was anything but 

 propitious for Entomology, being very wet and often cold, but, with the 

 elements thus against us, the appended condensed list will show that 

 deserted Suffolk (for who has collected here since Kirby's day, when 

 it was one of the most prolific of the English counties?), at least in 

 the N.W., can hold its own with most districts as far as Coleoptera 

 are concerned. 



Licinns depressus, very sparingly, from Tlietford to Lakenheath, under stones 

 and upon the roads— upon the heath and in the fen — and never near chalk. Of 

 Anchomenus several species were taken : ^. ^raciVis, swept in the marshes at dusk, 

 and at the base of willows, with A. piceus, A.viduus,var. mass^w.?, and A.fuliginosus 

 (abundantly), amongst which latter one or two curiously convex, rufous varieties, 

 with dark legs and a strong basal depression on the elytra, occurred. Amara con- 

 sularis, rarely, under stones, with A. ftilva. Harpalus picipennis*' and, on the 

 sandhills at Lakenheath, many H. anxius. Oodes kelopioides, rare, at the base of 

 -willows, in the marshes. Calathus fuscus and flavipes, abundant, with a single 



» This is, perhaps, the first British record of Harpalus piciiiennis aud //. anxius from a 

 inland locality. — G. C. C. 



