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A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK Harplphorus hpldus is sometimes seen. In the genus Emphytus we are rather poor, only being enabled to claim E. tegatus at Bentley, E. serotinus at Bungay and Bramford in October, and E. grossulariat rarely in Assington Thicks and Finborough Park ; but E. calceatus and tener are somewhat common, and Mr. Tuck has recently added E. cinctus and tibialis from Tostock. Fenella nigrita is rare at Belstead, Fenusa melanopoda local at Barnby Broad and Tostock, F. pygmaea at Bramford and Brandon, and F. hetulae at Barton Mills. I took Kaliosysphinga ulmi at Foxhall in May 1507. Athalia annulata is the only unobserved kind or the genus, for A. rosae abounds everywhere, A. spinarum is recorded by Curtis in his Farm Insects as most destructive about Cove- hithe, and I have recently found it there, as well as in the Breck district ; A. ancilla is local, A. Scutellariae has only been taken in Tuddenham Fen and A. lugens is represented by a single female captured at Southwold by Mr. Tuck. Selandria serva is abundant, 5. stramineipes local at Ipswich, Brandon, and Assington ; S. morio widely distributed and 5. aperta only noticed at Barton Mills, Lowestoft, Brandon, and Ipswich. Strongylogaster cingulatus is common among bracken, including two of the rare male ; and I have taken Stromboceros delicatulus rarely in both Assington and Staverton Thicks. At Dodnash, Tuddenham, and Lowestoft Taxonus equiseti, which is certainly not common, has been met with ; T. glahratus is, however, abundant with Poecilosoma excisa at Henstead and Reydon. P. luteolum occurred to me at Southwold in 1900, P. immusa at Barton Mills and in Bentley Woods in June, with P. pulveratum once at Foxhall, and P. tridens once at Barnby Broad. Of P. longicornis I took a single male in Reydon marshes in June 1905. Of the diflScult Dolerina we have Loderus palmatus at Tostock and Bramford, Dolerus madidus at Ipswich and Tostock, D. palustris widely distributed but not common, D. liogasterax East Bridge, D. haematodes at Foxhall and Tostock, D. nigratus at Monk Soham, D. rugosulus at Blakenham, D. ravus at Stoke-by-Clare and Lavenham in the south, D, fissus in the Bentley Woods, with D. coruscans and picipes ; while D. pratensis, gonager, anthracinus, aeneus, and Loderus vestigialis are widely distributed and most of them common. Tenthredopsis campestris, litterata, dorsalis, and coqueberti are frequently met with in the spring ; T. tiliae is not rare at Tostock and Bentley, T. ornata is recorded from near Yarmouth by Paget, and has turned up at Belstead, Lavenham, &c.; and Mr. W. H. Tuck has found T. dorsivittata at Tostock. Rhogogastera lateralis, aucupariae, and viridis are all common and widely distributed. Pachyprotasis rapae is abundant, but P. antennata, so common in the south of England, has not occurred with us. Of the handsome genus Macrophya, the marsh-loving M. 12-punctata is even commoner than M. neglecta, M. blanda and rufipes have occurred at Copdock, M. rustica at Bungay and Wooipit in July, while at Brandon I once found M. alhicinctOy and once at Belstead M. ribis. Allantus scrophulariae and arcuatus are abundant, though A. marginellus is rare, and ^. an^/ttw doubtfully Suflfolcian. In the typical genus Tenthredoy four kinds — livida, rufiventris, bicincta, and mesomela — are abundant in the woods ; T, velox, T. solitaria, and T. maculata are all very rare indeed at Bentley, though T. atra is occasionally met with there, and T. punctulata has only been seen in Assington Thicks ; at Brandon alone 7". picta has occurred to Mr. Chitty and me in some numbers. In all one hundred and ninety-one species have been noticed in Suffolk out of the nearly four hundred which inhabit Britain. COLEOPTERA Beetles At the time of the publication of Canon Fowler's recent work on the beetles of the British Islands, very little indeed appeared to be known of the Suffolk species ; but a careful and systematic study of various books and periodicals issued during rather more than the last hundred years reveals the fact that it was only in comparatively recent times that they had been neglected. In the very first British book on beetles, the Entomologia Britannica of Marsham, which appeared in 1802, we find some twenty species recorded from Suflfolk, mainly upon the authority of the Rev. William Kirby, M.A., F.R.S. The earliest of these records takes precedence, perhaps, of any in Britain, and refers to Scarabaeus {Geotrupes) vernalis, L., which was found commonly near Woodbridge in 1795. And in the same year the rector of Barham gave his classical Monographia Apum Angliae with a local mention of the curious Stylops which bears his name and has since been adopted as the permanent seal of the Entomological Society. During the following twenty years John Curtis collected extensively in various parts of the county and many of his better captures are brought forward in the British Entomology of 1823-40. Denny enumerates several of Kirby's Pselaphi and Scydmaen: in his Norwich Monographia of 1825 ; and nine years later many beetles are recorded, though without author's' names, from the north-east corner of the county by the Pagets. Stephens's Manual in 1839 condenses the records set forth in the same author's Illustrations, with many additions; and 122