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likely ^have overlooked them. The Cladium was certainly eaten in 

 places, but my examination of it produced nothing but cut fingers, 

 while I was unable to find any signs of larval work in the Sparganium. 

 I may add that the pupae seem very delicate, so that, though I 

 carefully avoided touching them, and kept the stems moist in a tin 

 box, only seven moths emerged out of a dozen pupae in all, and of these 

 two were hopelessly crippled. The typhce, on the contrary, came out 

 as though they knew they were common things, until I grew tired 

 of setting them ; I was, however, rewarded by a few fine dark varieties. 



Paragon House, Norwich : 



November, 1885. 



HAEPALUS CALCEATUS, STURM, EE-ESTABLISHED AS BRITISH, 

 WITH NOTES ON OTHER HARPALL 



BY EEV. W. W. FOWLEE, M.A., T.L.S. 



A few years ago, when comparatively a beginner at collecting, 

 while hunting for Nehria livida at Bridlington, I turned a large Har- 

 palus out of a sandy place on the cliffs. For a long time I have had 

 it in my collection as my sole representative of H. tenehrosus ; on 

 comparing it, however, a short time ago with specimens of H. tenehrosus 

 taken by Mr. J. J. Walker at Whitsand Bay, near Plymouth, and given 

 me by Mr. Champion, I at once saw that it was a distinct species, 

 which opinion was endorsed by Dr. Sharp ; Mr. C. O. Waterhouse 

 kindly compared it for me with the European Sarpali in the British 

 Museum collection, and found that it was H. calceatus, Sturm. 



The capture is very interesting, as the species is recorded by 

 Dawson as British in the Entomologist's Annual for 1857, p. QQ, 

 where he says : " A single female example was captured near Swansea 

 as long ago as 1830 by the Eev. C. Kuper. I am surprised that this 

 species should not be common with us, and that its claim to be re- 

 corded should even now rest upon a solitary individual. It is plentiful 

 in France, and occasionally enters lighted apartments in the summer 

 evenings ; moreover, it is a large and conspicuous insect, and very 

 unlikely to be overlooked." 



Schaum (Insect. Deutsch., I, 585) says, that the species is rather 

 abundant over all G-ermany and the whole of mid-Europe, but that it 

 is not found in England or Sweden. Fairmaire and Laboulbene 

 (Faune Entomol. Franc, p. 132), from whom Dawson probably got 

 his information, mention it as common everywhere in France, and as 

 often flying into rooms at night, attracted by light. Bedel (Faune des 



