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numerous, as the author had access to the notes of that indefatigable 
and most successful collector, the late Dr. Power, who is believed 
to have occasionally stayed at Woodbastwick. Canon Fowler’s 
own captures were for the most part made at Hunstanton and 
Bircham Newton. 
It will be seen that the records for many species are taken from 
tlio older authors, and that therefore confirmation of their occurrence 
is desirable ; but these records are not to be approached with initial 
distrust on that account. It is true that very few Beetles are 
actually rare, but it should be borne in mind that the circumstances 
which must be coincident in order to favour the capture of a given 
species by a given collector are both numerous and complex, and 
that the chances of its capture in a given area are in direct 
proportion to the number of collectors engaged in its pursuit. 
Moreover, the records given on the authority of the old writers 
are for the most part those of large and easily recognised species, so 
that the probability of errors in determination is comparatively 
small. 
I am indebted to the liev. C. T. Cruttwell, sometime Rector of 
Denton, for the opportunity of examining his extensive collection, 
from which I took notes of his Norfolk captures, exclusive of 
the Brachelytra, for which, unfortunately, time did not serve. 
Mr. Frank Norgate, whilst living at Sparham, gave me from time 
to time many interesting species taken by himself in Foxley Wood 
and his immediate neighbourhood. My friend Mr. G. C. Champion 
spent a few weeks in 1890 at Waxham, and he has furnished me 
with a list of his captures in that district, and also in short 
excursions to Ranwortli and Honing ; species from all or any of 
these places are included in the phrase “ Waxham (Champion).” 
The Rev. Theodore Wood kindly sent me, in response to a printed 
appeal for information to non-resident collectors, an extensive list 
of his captures in this county; and Mr. J. B. Bridgman allowed 
mo to inspect and take notes of a collection of Beetles formed by 
his late father, and also furnished information as to the Stylopidse. 
Although the records standing under his name are not numerous, 
I must nevertheless express my obligations to the late Mr. T. P. 
Dossetor, with whom I became acquainted about the time of his 
settlement in Norwich in 1876. A coleopterist of the old school, 
and a contemporary of the late E. W. Janson and Dr. Power. 
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