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tremely rare species. It was taken beneath some fallen boulders at 

 the base of the cliffs near Gorton, a village some two miles north of 

 Lowestoft, Suffolk, on July llth, 1898. 



The species was first introduced as British by J. F. Dawson 

 in the Entomologist's Annual for 1857, under the name " Agonum 

 elongatum, Dej. ;" a ? example of which was captured as long ago as 

 1831 by Eev. C. Kuper on the banks of the Wisbeach Canal, near 

 Lowestoft. Dawson states that the insect, being a native of Greece, 

 and met with in none of the intermediate districts (at that time), is 

 probably only an involuntary visitant. Bedel includes it, however, 

 among the Goleoptera of the Seine basin, but only on the strength of 

 a single specimen taken on the wing in the E,ue de Medicis, Paris, on 

 July 5th, 1872. In the Entomologist's Annual for 1860, p. 96, there is 

 a very good description of the insect by Mr. E. W. Janson, drawn from 

 a $ specimen taken by Mr. Brewer in the spring of 1859 near South- 

 wold, Suffolk. Mr. Janson goes on to add that a supposed example 

 of this species was taken by Mr. Bissell at Hornsea, Yorkshire, in 

 June, 1859. The latter specimen, however, is, as Fowler says (Col. 

 Brit. Isles, vol. i, p. 91), very doubtful, as it was lost soon after it was 

 captured, before it had really been identified. 



Mr. Edward Saunders took {cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. i, p. 75) one 

 specimen at roots of grass near Kessingland, a village about three 

 miles south of Lowestoft (and six north of Southwold) ; and his 

 father found a second beneath a stone about a mile north of Lowestoft. 

 These two specimens, one of which, Mr. Saunders informs me, is now 

 in Mr. Champion's collection, and the other he gave to Mr. Janson, 

 who named it for him, were taken at the end of June, ]861, since 

 which time it has not occurred in England, though the Eev. W. F. 

 Johnson includes " one specimen on estuary shore under stones " 

 among other Goleoptera taken at Ardara, Co. Donegal [cf. Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., vol. xxviii, p. 311 (1892)]. May I be permitted to ask Mr. 

 Johnson in a spirit " la plus courtoise " if he is quite sure of his 

 Irish record ? There is, as far as I see, no reason why it should not 

 occur in that locality, and particularly in the environment mentioned, 

 and it is only in the selfish hope that we may possibly claim all the 

 British examples as having occurred in Suffolk that I put the perhaps 

 unnecessary question. 



These would appear to be the only British examples, and, excepting 

 the accidental specimen referred to above, the insect does not seem to 

 have occurred in France. I am inclined to fear that the British 

 records are, in every case, those of "involuntary visitants," but it 



