9» [April, 



to that period others were taken there," as well as in Scotland and 

 Ireland ; in spite of his certainly correct reference of the unnamed 

 upper figure in Donovan's British Insects, Vol. XV (1811), pi. 526, to 

 the same species in the Manual of 1839, p. 15, where it is again 

 mentioned from " Halvergate Marsh, Norf . ; Caithness, &c, Scotland ; 

 and near Dublin" in April to June. 



In Stephens' Catalogue of 1829, the reference to Haworth's 

 record is Trans. Ent. Soc. i, p. 338 ; this is the old Entomological 

 Society, which published but a single volume of Transactions, dated 

 1807 (though actually issued 1807-1812, teste Sherborn in litt.) ; the 

 first volume of the present Society appeared in 1836. A. H. Haworth's 

 recoi'd in his " A brief Account of Some rare Insects announced at 

 various times to the Society, as new to Britain," is : — 



" 32. clathratus. Carabus. apterus nigricans, elytris aeneis, 

 striatis interjectis punctis excavatis cupreis. 



" Fab. Syst. Eleut. i. 77. Panz. Faun, cum icone. 



" I first took this in a Marsh at Halvergate, Norfolk, April, 1809 : 

 since when several others have been there taken." 



This is all; and it certainly seems to describe the insect, excepting 

 the word " striatis," which would be inappropriate (as Mr. Newbery 

 very truly remarks to me, in litt.) to our modern ideas, as the coppery 

 impressions are not separated by strise but by raised costse ; and 

 Mr. Ernest Elliott suggests that some such insect as C. hortensis was 

 mistaken for it. Doubt of its occurrence in the Marsh may be gathered 

 from Samouelle (Entom. Useful Compendium, 1819, p. 364) " Near 

 Halvergate Marsh, Nor." What became of the specimens taken by 

 Haworth and his contemporaries is quite unknown ; the four examples 

 of this beetle in Stephens' Collection are, as is there usual, without 

 labels. 



II. 



Mr. Edwards, in his Fauna of Norfolk : Coleoptera (Trans. Nor- 

 folk and Norwich Nat. Soc. 1893, p. 433), quotes Stephens and adds: 

 "April, in drills, Halvergate Marshes (Curtis). Burgh marshes, 

 very rare (Paget). This well-known Scotch species was evidently 

 distributed by Bobert Scales to the collectors of his day from Halver- 

 gate, where he resided for a few years prior to 1812 ; but beyond the 

 foregoing notices there is no other record of its ever having occurred 

 in England." In the same paper (lib. cit. p. 427) Mr. Edwards reverts 

 to lib. cit. vol. IV, 1885, p. 97-109, where •• we find Eobert Scales 



