A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



have not been taken here for a considerable period. Though several of our three hundred species of 

 weevils are rare, few claim special notice here. Dorytomus va/idirostris, generally a scarce insect, is very 

 abundant with us beneath the bark of aspen trees during the winter ; I have upon occasion taken a 

 hundred examples beneath a single small piece of bark 1 Two specimens of Bagous digiyptus, of 

 which only two others have been found in Britain, have at diflFerent times occurred to me on the 

 banks of the Gipping near Ipswich ; and the late G. C. Barrett found the larva of the very rare 

 Gymnetron linariae at the roots of toadflax at Brandon, where it has recently again turned up spar- 

 ingly. Stephens* ancient record of Cryptorrhynchus lapathi has recently been confirmed by the 

 capture of fresh specimens by Mr. E. A. Elliott and others, at Barton Mills and Tuddenham Fen. 



The above epitome will show, I think, how many rarities may be found in one ' 'onty by 

 assiduous collecting. The results of much of my own — some 8,500 specimens — were pre- 

 sented a short time ago to the Bury St. Edmunds Museum and form a fairly representative 

 illustration of the local fauna of this group. I will conclude with a catalogue of those species 

 which have been added to the 1,763 ennumerated in my CoUoptera of Suffolk, since its appearance in 

 May 1899 until Oct. 1 907, many of which had already been forecasted as of probable, though un- 

 instanced, occurrence in the footnotes. A full list is given, since the majority are rare kinds. 



Additions, i 899-1 907 



Harpalus serripes. At roots of plants on crag cliffs at 

 FeRxstotve 



Lemostenus complanatus. Three beneath bark of 

 felled tree at Ipswich ; Fel'txstotve 



Anchomenns oblongus. Bentley IVoods, in grass tufts 



Bembidium doris. On margin of ditch in Tuddenham 

 Ten in July 



Demetrias monostigma. Not rare on banks of Little 

 Oust River at Brandon 



Dromius longiceps. Swept by Mr. Chitty by the 

 Ouse at Brandon, in May 1 906 



Brachinns crepitans. Fourteen examples near Land- 

 guard Fort, FeJixstoae 



Haliplus immaculatus. Several captured upon one 

 occasion in the borough of Bury St. Edmunds, 

 in June 1 903 (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1907, p. 4) 



Deronectes depressus. Bamby Broad; Bury St. Ed- 

 munds; and Bungay 



Hydroporus discretus. Two at Tostock in July 



— bilineatus. Two slightly doubtful females at Tos- 



tock in July 

 Rhantus bistriatus. Tostock and Bury St. Edmunds; 

 not rare 



— grappii. Found singly at OuJton Broad and Tos- 



tock 

 Dytiscus circumcinctus. One dimorphic female at 

 Tostock in May. 



— pnnctulatus. Bungay and Bury St. Edmunds ; very 



scarce 

 Hydaticus transversalis. One male at Bamby in April 

 Helochares punctatus. Curiously rare ; only found 



at (Vherstead in 1904 

 Limnebius nitidus. Taken at Brandon by the Ouse in 



June 

 Helophorus mulsanti. Found at Tw/wi, 23 May 1902 

 Ochthebius exaratus. One in a brackish ditch at 



Bawdsey 

 Cercyon terminatus. Found at Tostock in May 1902 

 Aleochara cuniculorum. Lotoestoft, Staverton and 



Brandon; common in rabbit-holes 



— spadicea. Taken in moles' nests at Ipswich by 



Prof. Beare 

 Oxypoda misella. Not rare in rabbit-holes about 



Brandon (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1 904, p. 60) 

 Ischnoglossa prolixa. Found at Oulton Broad (cf. Ent. 



Mo. Mag. 1906, p. 12) 

 Ocyusa incrassata. Once found in Ou/ton Broad in 



December 



One specimen taken with the 

 a cossus tree at Ou/ton Broad 



Ocyusa maura. Probably common ; Bixley Decoy in 

 refuse in spring 



— picina. Brandon and Bixley Decoy, in damp spots 



— nigrata, Fairm. Levington, in martin's nest. 



New to Britain (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1904, 



p. 251) 

 Ilyobates propinquus. One specimen found at Jps- 



tvicA in April 

 Callicerus rigidicornis. 



last 

 Thamiaria hospita. In 



in Aug. 

 Homalota caesula. In rabbit-holes about Brandon and 



Tuddenham 



— cuspidata. Not rare under bark, Bentley IVotds in 



Feb. 



— hepatica. Once found jbout Mercurialis in Bent- 



ley Woods 



— immersa. In rotten wood ; Trimley Marshes and 



Bentley Woods 



— intermedia. A somewhat doubtfiil specimen at 



Oulton Broad 



— mortuorum. Swept singly at Tostock in June 



— ravilla. Found in an old wasps' nest at Tostock in 



March 



— vilis. Two males in Tuddenham Fen in June 1903 

 Tachyusa atra. Taken by the Little Ouse at Brandon 



in June 

 Xenusa uvida. One beneath seaweed by the Orwell 



at Wherstead 

 Lamprinus saginatus. Taken at Foxhall in April 

 Hypocyptus seminulum. One swept in Tuddenham 



Fen, Aug. 1905 

 Megacronus inclinans. One in dead leaves in Wool- 



verstone Park 

 Quedius longicomis. Found in a mole's run in 



garden of Monk Soham House, Mar. 1905 

 Staphylinus fulvipes. One flying in Bentley Woods in 



June 

 Philonthus fulvipes. Taken in Tuddenham Fen in 



middle of June 



— fiimarius. In flood refuse at Benacre Broad 

 Cryptobium fracticome. Several in reed refuse at 



Oulton Broad 

 Paederus fuscipes. Easton and Covehithe Broads, not 



uncommon 

 Evaesthetus ruficapillus. By the river at Brandon in 



June 



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