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demonstrated was that they had existed in the county fifty, 

 sixty, or sevent}' years ago. Now we know that many of them 

 still occur and in localities of which the older coleopterists knew 

 nothing-, Mr. J. W. Carter, F.E.S., has drawn attention (ante, 

 pp. 148-150) to some of these. Another striking- instance is that 

 of Blethisa multipiuictata L. Respecting- this species Messrs. 

 Johnson and Halbert, in their ' Beetles of Ireland,' say it is 

 a northern species occurring- over Northern and Central Europe, 

 Siberia, and in North America.'"" They further state that in 

 Ireland it is found in Ulster, Connaug-ht, Leinster, and Munster. 

 It is ' rare, frequents very marshy places, and unless the season 

 is a dry one it is usually difficult to obtain.' In France it occurs 

 in the North and South-west, and in Anjou. Its distribution 

 in Great Britain, so far as recorded by Samouelle, Stephens, 

 Dawson, Fowler, Edwards, Ellis, and Morley, is as foUows : — 

 Scotland : Rare and local ; less frequent than in Eng-land. 



Lowlands, also taken at Braemar. 

 England : Near Carlisle ; Liverpool district, near Crosby ; 



Askham Bog, York ; Repton, Lincoln ; Norfolk, 

 Suffolk, Essex, rare in the London district ; 

 common on Whittlesea Mere and in the 

 Cambridgeshire Fens ; Slapton Ley, Devon- 

 shire. 



The localities printed in italics are ancient records, and it 

 would be well if coleopterists in their respective counties would 

 endeavour to find whether the species is still to be found in its 

 former haunts. So far as Yorkshire is concerned this has now 

 been done. In Mr. Hey's list there are only two records, dated 

 30th November 1830 and i6th May 1836, both referring to 

 Askham Bog. Indeed, Mr. Hey says of it : ' Another of the 

 Askham Bog rarities, but not taken for many years.' In the 

 cabinet of specimens collected and arranged by W. Spence 

 (joint author with Rev. W. Kirby of ' An Introduction to 

 Entomology'), now in the Hull Museum, there are several speci- 

 mens which may have been taken in the Hull district, but in the 

 absence of any evidence this can be no more than a surmise. 



On 7th November 1902, while rambling with Mr. G. Parkin, 

 of Wakefield, and Mr. W, Hewett, of York, we came to Ryhill 

 reservoir, a large sheet of water about four miles from Wakefield 



■* I am inclined to think that for 'species' we should read 'g-enus,' So 

 far as North America is concerned I am not aware that this species does 

 occur there, but the g-enus is represented by B. qiiadricollis Hald, and 

 B. jidii Lee, 



1904 September i. 



