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Collier, M. — (1) Some notable Norfolk Coleoptera, including four new county 

 records (*). Acupalpus consputus (Duft.), Stanford MOD, 22. ix. 1993. *Perigona 

 nigriceps (Dej.), Rockland St Peter, 23. ix. 1993, in garden compost heap. *Scydmaenus 

 rufus M. & K. and *Scraptia testacea Allen, Santon Downham, adults found emerged 

 on 29. vi. 1993 from rotten alder collected 6.H.1993. Tachinus flavolimbatus Pand., 

 Caudlesprings, Watton, 10. ix. 1993, sieving fen/meadow cuttings. Soronia 

 punctatissima (111.), Surlingham, 4.vii.l993, first modern county record. *Uleiota 

 planata (L.), Stanford MOD, 22. ix. 1993, under bark of birch log. Tetratoma 

 desmaresti (Lat.), Stanford MOD, 10. iv. 1992, beating branches of dead standing oak, 

 first modern county record. Tropiphorus terricola (Newm.), Stanford MOD, 5.vi.l993, 

 evening sweeping. Hypera dauci (Ol.), Stanford MOD, 16.V.1992, pair in cop crawling 

 outside rabbit burrow, near Erodium.. 



(2) French specimens of beetles now considered very rare or extinct in Britain. 

 Diachromus germanus (L.) and Brachinus sclopeta (F.), Burcin, 18. v. 1993, in wet 

 meadow beside reed fen., Platycerus caraboides (L.), Foret de la Cantiniere, 19. v. 1993, 

 on umbel in forest meadow. Trichodes alvearius (F.), Charnay, 14. v. 1993, common 

 on roadside umbels. Hippodamia 13-punctata (L.), Etang Fontain, St Eloi, 10. ix. 1991, 

 sweeping lakeside vegetation. Acmaeops collar is (L.), Foret de la Cantiniere, 19. v. 1993, 

 on hawthorn blossom in forest clearing. Agelastica alni (L.), Grenoble, 17. v. 1993, 

 crawling up trunk of poplar. 



Copestake, D. R. — Some interesting beetles found during 1993. Elaphrus 

 uliginosus F., Luccombe Chine, I.o.W., 24. iv. 1993; Bembidion obliquum Sturm, 

 Powdermill Reservoir, East Sussex, 21. ix. 1993; Platyderus ruficollis (Marsh.), Horsell 

 Common, Surrey, 1 l.viii. 1993, under log; Harpalus melleti Heer and H. 

 schaubergerianus Puel, near Cheam Golf Course, Surrey, 1 l.viii. 1993, in moss; 

 Badister bullatus (Schr.), B. meridionalis Puel and B. unipustulatus Bon., Otmoor, 

 Oxfordshire, 27.x. 1993, all three species in same grass tussock; Odacantha melanura 

 (L.), Pevensey Level, East Sussex, 15. iv. 1993, in reed litter; Lacon querceus (Herbst), 

 Windsor, Berkshire, 21.viii.1993, beating oak; Ampedus cardinalis (Schiod.), Windsor, 

 Berkshire, vi.1993, bred; A. pomorum (Herbst), Brocton Coppice, Staffordshire, 

 24.iii.1993, in birch log; A. nigerrimus (Lac), Windsor, Berkshire, 20. ii. 1993, in red- 

 rotten oak log; Ischnodes sanguinicollis (Panz.), and Procraerus tibialis (Boisd. & 

 Lac), Windsor, Berkshire, 17. v. 1993, on hawthorn blossom; Megapenthes lugens 

 (Redt.), Windsor, Berkshire, 17. v. 1993, in baited trap; Ischnomera sanguinicollis (F.) 

 and Grammoptera ustulata (Schall.), Windsor, Berkshire, 17. v. 1993, on hawthorn 

 blossom; Chrysolina sanguinolenta (L.), near Cheam Golf Course, Surrey, 

 1 l.viii. 1993, in moss; Platystomos albinus (L.), Crump's Wood, Little Horsted, East 

 Sussex, 16. iv. 1993, in moss; Brachytarsus nebulosus (Forst.), Windsor, Berkshire, 

 3. vi.1993, beating oak; Otiorhynchus raucus (F.), near Cheam Golf Course, Surrey, 

 1 l.viii. 1993, in moss; Cathormiocerus myrmecophilus (Seidlitz), Ecclesbourne Cliff, 

 Hastings, East Sussex, 14. iv. 1993; C. socius Boh. Red Cliff, Sandown, I.o.W., 

 24. iv. 1993; Brachysomus echinatus (Bons.), Oakley Wood, Cirencester, 

 Gloucestershire, 23. v. 1993, swept; Cneorhinus plumbeus (Marsh.) and Tanymecus 

 palliatus {¥.), Eype Mouth, Dorset, 12. vi.1993, swept; Limobius borealis (Payk.), 

 Huish, Wiltshire, 6. vi.1993, on Geranium pratense L.; Magdalis barbicornis (Lat.), 

 near Waterperry Wood, Oxfordshire, 8. vi.1993; Trachodes hispidus (L.), Crump's 

 Wood, Little Horsted, East Sussex, 16. iv. 1993, in moss; Cryptorhynchus lapathi (L.), 

 Merthyr Mawr Warren, Glamorgan, 21. v. 1993, on poplar; Acalles roboris Curt., 

 Crump's Wood, Little Horsted, East Sussex, 16. iv. 1993, in moss; Bagous collignensis 

 (Herbst), Balmer Lawn, Brockenhurst, South Hampshire, 7. vi.1993, on muddy pond 

 bank; B. glabrirostris (Herbst), Pevensey Level, East Sussex, 15. iv. 1993, in reed litter; 



