1898.] 85 



We have received the following additional note from Mr. C. 

 Morley. — Eds. 



Foxhall is a tiny little village upon a gentle acclivity on the banks of a small 

 stream, a tributary of the River Deben. The parish includes a part of the sandy 

 heath, upon the border of which is the "Plateau" on the north, and some poor 

 marsh land on the south. Parallel with the stream through Foxhall and Brightwell, 

 but extending in the north to Waldringfield and Martlesham, runs a narrow strip 

 of the Eed Crag from the Deben to the Orwell, resting at this point upon the London 

 Clay at a depth of forty-two feet from the surface, and capped by the Glacial Drift 

 and rubble. In this neighbourhood is a wide stretch of sandy soil, of which there 

 is little in the county, and wherever the crag is present the soil appears of a light 

 and unstable nature. Beyond the Deben the crag broadens out, reaching as far as 

 Dunwich and Southwold, and throughout this district it is quite probable S. 

 Frcelichi is to be sought with tolerable chance of success. The particular spot of 

 capture is a field just 100 feet above sea-level, upon which many attempts have been 

 made to raise corn, but all have failed dismally, and copious manuring has raised 

 nothing but fine crops of bracken ! The major part of the field, as a last resource, 

 has just been ploughed and planted with Coniferce, much, I fear, to the detriment 

 of the propagation of our Harpalus. A curious fact is that I have searched the 

 same spot for several consecutive seasons, and in 1896 turned over the same stones 

 beneath which H. Frcelichi occurred last year without obtaining a single specimen, 

 Mr. Elliott and I secured in all fifteen specimens, twelve males and three females, 

 two of the former are now in the British Museum, and I hope to obtain it and dis- 

 tribute it among my friends again this year. Sandhill species, such as Sitones 

 griseus, Cneorhinus geminatus, Calathus flavipes, Broscus cephalotes, Coccinella 

 11-punctata, &c., occur on the " Plateau," and it was my friend Dr. Taylor's opinion 

 that marine plants are attracted by the soda which enters into the drift sand of the 

 felspar, and hence the occurrence of such species at a distance of six miles from the 

 sea at its nearest point. About a mile distant Kirby first took Cicindela sylvatica 

 in Britain.* 



Harpalus Froelichi, Sturm, would appear to be a somewhat scarce species 

 upon the continent. Fairmaire says it is rare on sandhills in Northern France, but 

 Bedel has found it occasionally in numbers, especially in April, in the Seine basin. 

 It is recorded from a number of localities throughout Grermany, though occurring 

 apparently commonly nowhere. Its southern distribution seems to be limited by the 

 Austrian mountain ranges, whence it is recorded by Sturm in his original description 

 ("Deutschlands Insecten," 1815), and Dr. Seidlitz mentions Transsylvania. It is 

 included in Thomson's " Skandinaviens Coleoptera," but does not probably occur 

 much further north than the Riga district. The three specimens of this species 

 (females) in the British Museum have the margins of the thorax red ; they were 

 taken at Stettin, and acquired in the collection of the late Herr Braasche in Octo- 

 ber, 1857. t — Claude Moelet, Ipswich : March, 1898. 



* " Capta in ericeto dicto Martlesham Heath, juxta "Woodbridge, in Suffolcift, Septembre 

 ineunto, 1797, D Kirby."— Marsham. 



t Dr. Seidlitz (Fauna Baltica ; die Kaefer, 1891) says : — Frdlichii, Sturm., = segnis, Dej., = 

 tardus, Bedel ; ;ind adds, " Panzers Beschreibung u. Abbildung des C. tardus giebt durchaua 

 keinen Anlass ihn auf FrOlichii anstatt auf die bisher von alien Autoren als tardus, Pz., beschrie- 

 bene Art zu bezichen. 



