86 [September, 



NOTES ON COL^OFTERA AT BEANDON, SUFFOLK. 



BY J. J. WALKER, R.N., F.E.S. 



As the Coleoptera of Brandon do not appear to have received as 

 mueli attention as the Lepidoptera , which have made this famous 

 locality a "household word" among collectors, a few notes on some 

 species which have lately fallen to my lot there, may induce other 

 entomologists to further investigate the beetle-fauna of the district, 

 which is certainly one of the most promising I have ever seen. 



My visit was on July 9th and 10th, and the weather being in 

 every respect favourable, Coleoptera were very abundant ; and, except 

 for the almost tropical heat of the sun's rays, reflected from the light 

 sandy soil, and the swarms of most pertinacious flies which followed 

 one everywhere, collecting was very pleasant and remunerative. Mr. 

 C. Gr. Barrett's interesting notes on coast Lepidoptera occurring here 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. vii, pp. 197 — 200) may, perhaps, be supplemented 

 by the mention of some familiar sea-side beetles, such as Broscus, 

 Crypticus, Cteniopus, Sitones griseus, CneorJiinus geminatus, &c., which 

 turned up in more or less abundance, with others to be presently 

 mentioned. Indeed, from the general aspect of the localit}", as well as 

 of the plants and insects, it was not difficult to imagine oneself ati 

 Deal or some other favoured spot on the coast, instead of being some 

 forty miles inland. 



Among many others taken, the following species seem most note- 

 worthy : — Ha^yaJus discoideus: this rare species was, oddly enough, 

 the only one of its genus observed, and it occurred sparingly by 

 grubbing at roots of various plants, in company with swarms ofi 

 Amara fidva ; Amara consularis and Calathus fuscus, with the 

 preceding ; Olihrus miUefolii, in profusion, on Achillea millefolium ; ; 

 Malthinus frontalis, by sweeping ; Malachius rufcollis, locally abund-- 

 ant on short grass just outside the town ; Dryophilus pusilluSj 

 swept up commonly under fir trees ; Cass Ida sa^iguinolenta, by 

 sweeping ; Cteniopus sulphureus, abundant on all sorts of flowers ; 

 Apion ruhens, in plenty by sweeping ; Hypera fasciculata, one only 

 (afterwards lost), under Erodium, as usual; Oymnetron noctis, 

 swarming in flowers of Linaria vulgaris, along with Bracliypterus 

 gravidus ; on the roots of the same plant I found many round whitish 

 galls, probably those produced by the larva of 0. linarice, but all, 

 without exception, w^ere too immature to do anything with ; Ceutlio- 

 rhynchus setosus, by sw^eeping ; C. asperifoliarum, a few specimens on 

 Cynoglossum officinale, but I could find none on the much more 



