MR. CLAUDE MORLEY ON THE INSECTS OF THE BRECK. 5S1 
lands away from it. Of these I have made out a list of eighty 
species of Beetles all taken by myself in the Breck ; their 
number will show how analogous must be these inland sands 
with those of the shore, and suggests that for such species 
as A mar a fulva (which also is found on the Crag-sands at 
Foxhall, in south-east Suffolk), Hypera jasciculata on Erodium 
cicutarium, Crypticus quisquilins , Harpalus auxins and 
II. picipennis there must be a great deal of natural salinity 
still exhaled by this necromantic tract of country. The 
last named beetle was first here found inland in Britain (cf. 
Entomologists’ Monthly Mag., 1807, p. 9), but recently Mr. 
Holland has found it on a much older formation — the 
Lower Calcareous Grit which is also sandy, intersected by 
thick calcareous bands containing rounded nodules, belonging 
to the Oxfordian Oolite group. Several very local Hemiptera 
are also to be found on the open Breck, where Verlusia 
rhombea, Pseudophlceus Fallenii and Systcllonotus triguitatus 
are frequent in August, with Asiraca clavicornis and the 
usually coast-frequenting Orthotylus rubidus, var. Moncreatfi. 
Yet a third group of species is everywhere to be found here, 
though very rarely on the coast ; those exclusively attached 
to heath country, either on account of its peculiar flora or in 
connection with the animals which alone there find scope for 
their wild habits. Among these may be enumerated Gcotrupcs 
typhceus, Psammobius sulcicollis, Pyrrhus dorsalis and 
B. murinus , Outhophilus sulcatus and Ortlwcerus muticus, 
belonging to the latter ; and Trachyplilceus scabriculus, 
Hydnobius punctatissimus, Mecimis circulatus, 8cc., to the 
former. Probably this common attraction for such usually 
diverse insects accounts for the number of rare things met 
with, a large proportion of which, more especially among 
the phytophagous heath-dwellers, such as A grot is valligera 
and Eupelix cuspidata so closely resemble their surroundings 
as to frequently defy detection, which is most difficult in 
the case of Gronops lunatus. 
No notes on Breck insects can be complete without some 
passing mention of the many rare denizens of the marshes 
which intersect it. The most prolific of these are probably 
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