MR. C. MORLEY ON THE COLEOPTERA OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK. 707 
hands across the Waveney and Little Ouse it is often a matter 
of difficulty, and in some cases even speculation, to tell in which 
county the capture of a rare species was effected, nor, geographically, 
is it of great importance. Hence many Brandon Coleoptera are 
claimed by both ; Dytiscus eircumjl exus at Burgh Castle rests in the 
Norfolk list, Curtis’ record of Ptinus liclienmi from “Thetford” in 
the Suffolk list, Carneys found Monohammus mtor “ near Bungay,” 
and Fowler occasionally mentions insects from “Ditchingham, 
Suffolk.” Exclusiveness is, however, well to maintain when the 
exact locality is indicated, Rev. William Kirby took Homuloplia 
rurieola at the Devil’s Ditch at Newmarket in 1797, and Dr. Power 
Chhrnim holosericeus at Isleham, which is in Cambridgeshire, but 
only half a mile over the border of Suffolk, whence neither is 
yet recorded, though both occur in Norfolk. 
It cannot, of course, be supposed that every one of the old 
records — some of over a century ago — are entirely free from error ; 
in the days before English text-books, or even from Stephens’ 
unwieldy volumes, it was very difficult to correctly identify so 
extremely closely allied species as are to be found among our 
Coleoptera. Our Carol ms clathratus is regarded by Mr. Newbery, 
than whom no one is more fitted to judge, as extremely doubtfully 
English, and he tells me he suspects C. granulatus was mistaken 
for it or that some other error gave rise to the record. Anthrenus 
pimpinelhe, Crypt ore pliatus ilecennnaruh.it us, and Harpalus obsrurus 
have, perhaps, never really occurred in Suffolk, though the last is 
still found at the Devil’s Ditch, a few miles over the western border; 
in like manner, Norfolk can hardly lay good claim to Rhayium 
imlayator or Corcinetta i/uinquepunrtata, though Rhinomacer 
aftelaboides has been found at Ipswich, and other well-known 
northern species have recently turned up, probably through the 
transportation of timber, so far south as the New b crest. Other 
kinds, such as Astynomus in I it is, G norim us nobilis, and Carabus 
auratus, are imported in a similar manner ; and perhaps the lovely 
Culosoma sycoplianta belongs to the same category. 
We have also a few kinds which find no place in the British 
Catalogue, but which have reached our shores by various 
artificial agencies, and have not been included in the figures 
below. The Norfolk list shows three of these interlopers, and 
Mr. James Edwards, who has done so much good work in the 
