58 THE BEETLES OF THE EASTERN COUNTIES.
orbicularis, Rhizophagus perforatus, Tryphillus suturalis, Dyphyllus
lunatus,* Agrilus laticornis,* Cis hispidus, Strophosomus retusus, Hypera
plantaginis, Onthophilus striatus* Mycetota hirta, Monotoma quadri-
collis,* and Stilicus fragilis.* I am surprised, in comparing these
meagre records with the Victoria History list, to find among them
no less than ten additions to the county list ; these are marked
with an asterisk.
Since my enumeration of our Coleoptera last year, thirty-
three species have been added to the "Coleoptera of Suffolk,"3
and Mr. James Edwards, F.E.S., has added seven species in the
Transactions of the Norfolk Naturalists' Society, 1904, pp. 744-5,
to the 1,796 species which he had previously noticed from
Norfolk.4 A comparison of the Essex list with these is most
instructive—all the following one hundred and seventy-four
species are hitherto quite unknown to occur in either of the more
northern counties. I have taken the opportunity of appending
a comparative table, illustrating the distribution of the various
groups in the Eastern Counties. The only species I have
excluded from the Essex list is Brachinus sclopeta, a very doubtful
insect as British, which should be placed in the same category
as Chrysomela gloriosa in Suffolk and Cardiophorus ruficollis in
Norfolk ; nor have I included my own records, mentioned above,
in so unofficial a review as the present.
BEETLES PECULIAR TO ESSEX.
GEODEPHAGA Hydroporus rivalis
Dyschirius extensus Agabus biguttatus
Stenolophus elegans
Acupalpus consputus PALPICORNIA
Anisodactylus paeciloides Paracymus nigro-aeneus
Pterostichus inaequalis Spercheus emarginatus
Anchomenus atratus Ochthebius aeneus
„ junceus Hydraena nigrita
Bembidium paludosum
Trechus lapidosus BRACHELYTRA
Microglossa gentilis
HYDRADEPHAGA Oxypoda exoleta
Hydroporus alatus ,, lentula
3 The Coleoptera of Suffolk, by Claude Morley, F.E.S., &c. Plymouth, J. H. Keys,
Printer, Whimple Street, 3s. 6d.
4 Fauna and Flora of Norfolk, part xii.: Coleoptera. By James Edwards, F.E.S.
(Trans. Norf. Soc, 1893, p. 427-508); "Additions," lib. cit. 1899, pp. 515-527.