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ill Norfolk. He was a Vice-President of the old Entomological Society 

 of London, of which his brother-in-law, Haworth, was President. 

 This was the Society founded in 1806 in succession to the Entomological 

 Society, 1805, and the older Aurelian Society, 1801 . Haworth doubtless 

 found Carabus clathratus for the first time in England when on a visit 

 to Scales at the latter's then recently-acquired farm at Halvergate in 

 April, 1809. 



To the general accuracy of Mr. Morley's picturesque description 

 of the Halvergate marshes I can bear personal testimony, having lived 

 for many years within easy distance of that classic spot. From the 

 list of his captiires on the occasion of his visit it would appear that 

 he did everything except search for Carahus clathratus, an insect which 

 few persons would expect to find by the most assiduous sweeping, 

 either in marsh dykes or elsewhere. 



C. clathratus does not appear to be exclusively confined to consider- 

 able altitudes ; foi- instance, in Holland, as I learn from Jkr. Dr. Everts, 

 the author of " Coleoptera Neerlandica," it is widely distributed, 

 especially in marshy places, under moss on the roots of willows, but 

 usually rare ; it is most frequently met with in the neighbourhood of 

 Amsterdam, particularly where the hayfields are lower and humid, as 

 in the neighbourhood of Broek, in Waterland, on the north side of 

 that city ; and in the latter part of the summer it is common on the 

 island of Texel in low-lying, damp hayfields, under haycocks. A com- 

 petent Danish Coleopterist residing in Copenhagen, of whom I recently 

 inquired as to his experience of the species, writes: — "With regard to 

 Carabus clathratus, it is widely distributed here in Denmark but not 

 quite common. It is found (1) on marshy commons, especially near 

 the sea-coast ; (2) in sandy places ; (3) at the shore of lakes. My own 

 specimens I have taken on a marshy place at the shore of a lake or 

 pond here in Nordsjaelland ; at this place I took the species both in 

 (J and ? , and also several larvae under moss." It would appear, 

 therefore, that C. clathratus is still found in Holland and Denmark in 

 stations precisely similar to those in which it was said to be found 

 in Norfolk and Suffolk rather more than a century since. The 

 occurrence of this insect in Norfolk would not prove that the species 

 reached Donegal and the Hebrides via East Anglia ; but if we accept 

 the geological evidence of the land-connections existing in later 

 Pleistocene times, such a thing would appear quite possible. 



Colesborne, Cheltenham : 

 December 18th, 1914. 



