SPREAD OF A RARE ROVE BEETLE IN SCOTLAND 99 
SE AD) OPA RARE ROVE. BEE (PAY LL O- 
DRA OLD ERAS (YEE LE like OL) (GRID IN-AILA, GIRIAN =), 
INESCODEAND: 
By ANDERSON FERGUSSON, F.E.S. 
A FEW years ago I made, for my own information, some 
notes upon the distribution of Phyllodrepotdea crenata, a 
little beetle belonging to the Homaliinz, a sub-family of 
the large group Brachelytra or Rove beetles. Recent 
captures of the beetle induced me to return to these notes, 
and as it seemed to me upon reading them over that the 
history of its occurrence in Scotland presented several 
points of interest, I have ventured in this paper to collect 
and narrate the facts, so far as they have been ascertained, 
regarding our knowledge of crexaza as a Scottish insect. 
In this country P. crenata has its headquarters in 
Scotland, but there is also a record of its occurrence in one 
locality in Ireland, to which I shall refer later. Hitherto 
it has not been recorded from England. In Europe it 
ranges from the middle to the south of the continent and, 
so far as I have been able to ascertain, is regarded as 
rare by continental coleopterists. 
The history of crenata as a Scottish insect starts with 
its introduction to the British list of Coleoptera by G. R. 
Crotch! upon specimens taken by Turner, the professional 
collector, in Scotland, probably about 1866 or 1867. In 
the original record no details as to the actual place of 
Gdotine or the habitat’ are given: 9c Sharp) im) (aihe 
Coleoptera of Scotland,’ referred the Scottish record to 
the Tay faunal area with the remark that the insect was 
very rare. As Turner collected extensively at Rannoch, 
which is situated in “Tay,” it is probable that his capture 
was made there, but I have not been able to discover that 
there is any published record of the exact locality. 
After its discovery by Turner nothing more was heard 
1 Entomologist, xxvii., 60. 2 Scottish Naturalist, iii., 133. 
