I06 MR. J. EDWARDS ON BAGOUS LUTOSUS, GYLL., IN NORFOLK. 
then Mr. Thouless has found amongst his 
West Norfolk material four specimens of this 
rarity, and two of these, with my one, were 
exhibited at the meeting of the Entomological 
Society of London, held on the 2nd November, 
1904, where their determination was not 
questioned by any of the Coleopterists present. 
Sine ira ! 
[Mr. Claude Morley having perused the above, requests the insertion of the 
following reply to Mr. Edwards’ remarks. — En.] 
Through the courtesy of the Journal Committee, I have 
been allowed the pleasure of perusing an advance copy of 
the above paper, and am much gratified that my little article 
there referred to should have elicited such interesting and 
useful details upon some of the rarest of Norfolk’s beetles. 
To call forth discredit upon the List or its Compiler was not 
thought of and is quite out of the question ; but where 
discussion was deemed necessary possibly doubtful records 
were instanced, I trust in a manner la plus sincere et la plus 
courtoise. The Limnichus, Bytliinus, and Anomala were mere 
personal captures, for which nothing remarkable was claimed. 
It is very satisfactory to learn that Pledroscelis sahlbergi 
is correct. Concerning Bagous lutosus, Gyll., no more need 
be said ; I was wrong, and my error arose from the fact that 
I overlooked the confirmation of this species as British 
(E.M.M. 1902, p. 240). It is, however, extremely improbable 
that any one would have the temerity to question the 
authenticity of so closely allied a form during a Meeting of 
the Ent. Soc., especially as this species and Bagous glabrirostris, 
Hbst., are both very variable and the variation runs upon 
somewhat parallel lines — close microscopic examination would 
be indispensable to a reliable determination. With respect 
to the Leptura, I should perhaps have substituted the word 
