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The Scots records are much less numerous and it is said to be 

 " local, but rather widely distributed, Lowlands and Highlands, Clyde, 

 Argyle, Dee, Sutherland ; abundant in Mull, Hebrides," and not un- 

 common in the I. of Tiree, by Fowler. The northern localities are also 

 given in Sharp's Coleoptera of Scotland ; and in the British Museum 

 is one from the Orkney Isles in his collection. Grimshaw tells me 

 there is a good series in the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art 

 (for other Scots records, cf. Ent, Mo. Mag., XXXI, 1895, p. 183 

 [melanic] ; XXXVII, 1901, p. 279 ; etc.). Two of the six examples 

 in the Power Collection are from Morris Young, probably from Paisley. 

 According to Eeitter the var. jansoni is a small form occurring in 

 Scotland. 



Its distribution in the Paloearctic region is very wide, though I find 

 no records outside Europe. Seidlitz in 1891 terms it " Im. nordl. u. mittl. 

 Eur., b. uns. selten" ; the last European Catalogue by Hey den, Eeitter 

 and Weise, in 1906, gives the range of Limnocarabus clathratus, L., as 

 north and central Europe, and its six varieties from " G-ermania, 

 Dania, Lenkoran on the Caspian sea coast, the Caucasus, and Aries in 

 G-allia." Barthe, in " Miscell. Entom. Narbonne," gives Northern 

 and Central Europe as far as Upper Italy in the south, and the 

 Caucasus in the east ; and Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg, Savoy, and 

 a number of French localities as its Gallo-Bhenish distribution. In 

 " Fauna Germanica," I, 1908, Eeitter details " Saxony, Magdeburg, 

 Nassau, Upper Silesia," and a variety from Borkum. Bertolini in his 

 " Catalogo Coleott. d'ltalia," of 1904, details " Trentino, Veneto, 

 Toscana, Liguria." It is evidently common in Siberia from Heyden's 

 remarks in his " Catalog der Coleopteren von Sibirien," of 1880 ; but it 

 does not seem to extend to the Peninsula, as it is not included in 

 Oliveira's " Catalogue des Insectes du Portugal " ; nor is it found in 

 either Madeira or the Canary Islands. 



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This distribution, so far from showing that the species in unlikely 

 to occur in England, goes to prove us to be surrounded by it on all 

 sides. Certainly " the occurrence of Carabus clathratus in Norfolk, if 

 it rested on absolutely unimpeachable evidence, would undoubtedly be 

 a trace of [species' emigration from south-east to north-west], but 

 hardly sufficient to prove that this species reached Donegal and the 

 Hebrides via East Anglia," as W. E. Sharp explains (Hint, Eec, 1901, 



p. 203). 



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