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A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE Mr. Ellis within about ten miles of Leighton Buzzard. Dr. Power lived in Bedford during the last years of his life ; if he had been younger and able to collect, even for a few weeks, our knowledge of the beetles of the county would be very much enlarged, for he always seemed to know intuitively where to find the scarcest species. ClCINDELIDJE Cicindela campestris, L. Carabid^e Cychrus rostratus, L. Carabus catenulatus, Scop. — nemoralis, Milll. — violaceus, L. — granulatus, L. Notiophilus biguttatus, F. — aquaticus, L. Leistus spinibarbis, F. — fulvibarbis, Dej. — ferrugineus, L. Nebria brevicollis, F. Elaphrus riparius, L. — cupreus, Duft. Loricera pilicornis, F. Clivina fossor, L. Dyschirius globosus, Herbst Broscus cephalotes, L. Dawson (Geod. Brit. p. 114) has the following note on this species : ' It is not, as has been commonly supposed, exclusively a coast species, for it has been taken by T. V. Wollaston, Esq., on a sandy common near Twigmoor in the north of Lincolnshire, forty miles from the sea ; and I myself have captured specimens near JVoburn in Bedford- shire, more than double that distance from the coast ' Badister bipustulatus, F. Acupalpus meridianus, L. Bradycellus distinctus, Dej. — verbasci, Duft. — harpalinus, Dej. Harpalus rufibarbis, F. — ruficornis, F. — aeneus, F. — rubripes, Duft. — discoideus, F. JVoburn ; also recorded by Dawson from Sandy — latus, L. — tardus, Panz. Stomis pumicatus, Panz. Platyderus ruficollis, Marsh. Pterostichus cupreus, L. — versicolor, Sturm — madidus, F. — niger, Schall. — vulgaris, L. — nigrita, F. — minor, Gyll. Carabid^ (continued) Pterostichus strenuus, Panz. — diligens, Sturm — picimanus, Duft. JVoburr, — vernalis, Gyll. — striola, F. Amara fulva, Dej. — apricaria, Sturm — ovata, F. — similata, Gyll. — lunicollis, Schiodtc — familiaris, Duft. — trivialis, Gyll. — communis, Panz. — plebeia, Gyll. Caiathus cisteloides, Panz. — flavipes, Fourc. — mollis, Marsh. — melanocephalus, L. var. nubigena, Hal. — piceus, Marsh. Pristonychus terricola, Herbst Anchomenus angusticollis, F. — dorsalis, Milll. — albipes, F. — oblongus, Sturm — marginatus, L. — parumpunctatus, F. — viduus, Panz. var. mcestus, Duft. — micans, Nic. — fuliginosus, Panz. — gracilis, Gyll. — piceus, L. — thoreyi, Dej. Olisthopus rotundatus, Payk. Bembidium rufescens, Gu6r. — obtusum, Sturm — guttula, F. — mannerheimi, Sahib. — biguttatum, F. — riparium, Ol. — aeneum, Germ. — articulatum, Panz. — lampros, Herbst var. velox, Er. — decorum, Panz. — nitidulum, Marsh. — quadriguttatum, F. — quadrimaculatum, Gyll. — femoratum, Sturm — littorale, Ol. — flammulatum, Clairv. 72