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New localities for ITt/drovafus cli/pealis Sharp. — I took several examples of 

 this rare beetle last June (1918) in the Little Sea at Studland. Eecently, 

 Mr. H. R. Dakefield showed me a specimen taken on April 27th, 1918, in one 

 of the ditches by the side of the road through Oxwich Marsh, Glamorgan. 

 As au amplification of the record, "New Forest (Sharp)," in Fowler's Brit. 

 Col. vol. vi. 211, I might mention that Mr. Gorham and I, a good many years 

 ago, took this Dytiscid in abundance in a pond adjoining the railway close to 

 Lyndhurst Road Station.— J. R. le 1j. Tomlin, Reading: May 1919. 



Colpodes splendens Morawitz, n Japanese Carabid in Berkshire. — Mr. Cosmo 

 Melvill has recently handed me a specimen of Coljwdes splendens Morawitz 

 which was taken by his sister, Miss Evelyn Melvill, crawling on the ground 

 at Hurst, Berks, in 1877. TJie genus to which this handsome Carabid belongs 

 comes between Olisthopvs and Patrohis of our lists, and the species is a native 

 of Japan. It is impossible to conjecture how it found its way into Berkshire. 

 — J. R.leB. Tomlin. 



On/pus cyaneiis Vayk. in Suffolk.— Ihis, is one of the comparatively few 

 British beetles that appears to be really rare : not merely overlooked, locally 

 common, or only rarely taken because their modns vivendi is unknown. In the 

 course of just thirty years' collecting in Suffolk, I have never seen the species 

 till May 29th, 1919 ; then, as I was brushing through a gap in the hedge, I 

 saw O, cyaneus — even at the distance of some ten feet the blue coloration was 

 unmistakable in the sunshine — run swiftly across a plain of clear sand, thrown 

 out in front of a rabbit-hole. Before I could reach the spot, it had gained the 

 shelter of the surroundiug herbage ; but I got my net hard down beyond its 

 position and a littb searching brought it to the tube in safety. This was at 

 2 30 p.m. (scientific time) just outside a belt of Scots pines at Butley, near 

 Urfurd, a couple of miles from the Suffolk coast and in the hamlet of Capel 

 Green. To the best of my knowledge four sptcimens have now been found in the 

 county : Stephens's uulocalized record, on tlie high roiui at Risby ; in Shakers 

 Lane, to the east of Bury St. Edmunds (Ent. Rec. viii, p. 312) in 1896; and 

 next the Butley specimen, which is now dry and raeasuies 18 mm. in length. 

 Some six specimens have lieen found in Norfolk : in gravel pits on Mousehold 

 Heath, at Lakenham in 1883, Urayton (Norf. Nat. Soc. Tran,s. 1893), Cromer 

 and Yarmouth {I.e. 1899). Fowler considered it " very rare"' in Britain; and 

 thPh^e two counties seem to be its headquarters. Elsewhere I find records only 

 from Yyrkshiie by Stephens ; Sherwood and '^ several " at Newark in Notts by 

 Oarr ; Colchester ; Coombe Wood by Stephens. All the British Ocypi are 

 known to occur in East Anglia ; O. pedator is at present confined to Norfolk, 

 (;. similis and O. fuscatus to Suffolk ; the last has not there been found since 

 Stephens's time, but that it still occurs is proved by its capture at Wicken, 

 two miles over the western border in Cambs, as recorded in my 1915 

 "Coleoptera of Suff"jlk : First Supplement," p. 12.— Claude Morley, 

 Monks' Sohain House, Suffolk : June 12th, 1919. 



[O. cyaneus has been taken on several occasions in recent years at Tubney, 

 Berks, by my friend, Mr. J. Collins (c/. Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. lii, p. 205), and I 

 found a very fine cT, only just dead, in this locality on August 3rd,, 1918. 

 —J. J. W.J ' 



