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 A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK have not been taken here for a considerable period. Though several of our three hundred species of weevils are rare, few claim special notice here. Dorytomus va/idirostris, generally a scarce insect, is very abundant with us beneath the bark of aspen trees during the winter ; I have upon occasion taken a hundred examples beneath a single small piece of bark 1 Two specimens of Bagous digiyptus, of which only two others have been found in Britain, have at diflFerent times occurred to me on the banks of the Gipping near Ipswich ; and the late G. C. Barrett found the larva of the very rare Gymnetron linariae at the roots of toadflax at Brandon, where it has recently again turned up spar- ingly. Stephens* ancient record of Cryptorrhynchus lapathi has recently been confirmed by the capture of fresh specimens by Mr. E. A. Elliott and others, at Barton Mills and Tuddenham Fen. The above epitome will show, I think, how many rarities may be found in one ' 'onty by assiduous collecting. The results of much of my own — some 8,500 specimens — were pre- sented a short time ago to the Bury St. Edmunds Museum and form a fairly representative illustration of the local fauna of this group. I will conclude with a catalogue of those species which have been added to the 1,763 ennumerated in my CoUoptera of Suffolk, since its appearance in May 1899 until Oct. 1 907, many of which had already been forecasted as of probable, though un- instanced, occurrence in the footnotes. A full list is given, since the majority are rare kinds. Additions, i 899-1 907 Harpalus serripes. At roots of plants on crag cliffs at FeRxstotve Lemostenus complanatus. Three beneath bark of felled tree at Ipswich ; Fel'txstotve Anchomenns oblongus. Bentley IVoods, in grass tufts Bembidium doris. On margin of ditch in Tuddenham Ten in July Demetrias monostigma. Not rare on banks of Little Oust River at Brandon Dromius longiceps. Swept by Mr. Chitty by the Ouse at Brandon, in May 1 906 Brachinns crepitans. Fourteen examples near Land- guard Fort, FeJixstoae Haliplus immaculatus. Several captured upon one occasion in the borough of Bury St. Edmunds, in June 1 903 (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1907, p. 4) Deronectes depressus. Bamby Broad; Bury St. Ed- munds; and Bungay Hydroporus discretus. Two at Tostock in July — bilineatus. Two slightly doubtful females at Tos- tock in July Rhantus bistriatus. Tostock and Bury St. Edmunds; not rare — grappii. Found singly at OuJton Broad and Tos- tock Dytiscus circumcinctus. One dimorphic female at Tostock in May. — pnnctulatus. Bungay and Bury St. Edmunds ; very scarce Hydaticus transversalis. One male at Bamby in April Helochares punctatus. Curiously rare ; only found at (Vherstead in 1904 Limnebius nitidus. Taken at Brandon by the Ouse in June Helophorus mulsanti. Found at Tw/wi, 23 May 1902 Ochthebius exaratus. One in a brackish ditch at Bawdsey Cercyon terminatus. Found at Tostock in May 1902 Aleochara cuniculorum. Lotoestoft, Staverton and Brandon; common in rabbit-holes — spadicea. Taken in moles' nests at Ipswich by Prof. Beare Oxypoda misella. Not rare in rabbit-holes about Brandon (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1 904, p. 60) Ischnoglossa prolixa. Found at Oulton Broad (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1906, p. 12) Ocyusa incrassata. Once found in Ou/ton Broad in December One specimen taken with the a cossus tree at Ou/ton Broad Ocyusa maura. Probably common ; Bixley Decoy in refuse in spring — picina. Brandon and Bixley Decoy, in damp spots — nigrata, Fairm. Levington, in martin's nest. New to Britain (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1904, p. 251) Ilyobates propinquus. One specimen found at Jps- tvicA in April Callicerus rigidicornis. last Thamiaria hospita. In in Aug. Homalota caesula. In rabbit-holes about Brandon and Tuddenham — cuspidata. Not rare under bark, Bentley IVotds in Feb. — hepatica. Once found jbout Mercurialis in Bent- ley Woods — immersa. In rotten wood ; Trimley Marshes and Bentley Woods — intermedia. A somewhat doubtfiil specimen at Oulton Broad — mortuorum. Swept singly at Tostock in June — ravilla. Found in an old wasps' nest at Tostock in March — vilis. Two males in Tuddenham Fen in June 1903 Tachyusa atra. Taken by the Little Ouse at Brandon in June Xenusa uvida. One beneath seaweed by the Orwell at Wherstead Lamprinus saginatus. Taken at Foxhall in April Hypocyptus seminulum. One swept in Tuddenham Fen, Aug. 1905 Megacronus inclinans. One in dead leaves in Wool- verstone Park Quedius longicomis. Found in a mole's run in garden of Monk Soham House, Mar. 1905 Staphylinus fulvipes. One flying in Bentley Woods in June Philonthus fulvipes. Taken in Tuddenham Fen in middle of June — fiimarius. In flood refuse at Benacre Broad Cryptobium fracticome. Several in reed refuse at Oulton Broad Paederus fuscipes. Easton and Covehithe Broads, not uncommon Evaesthetus ruficapillus. By the river at Brandon in June 26