Suffolk Coleoptera: Corrigenda

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SUFFOLK COLEOPTERA: H.

CORRIGENDA

MENDEL

U p to the death in 1951 of Claude Morley, founder and for m a n y years insect recorder for the Suffolk Naturalists' Society, the C o u n t y List of Coleoptera was kept up to date, by the publication of frequent notes relating to the discovery of new species. Very many of these notes referred to specimens collected by, or given to Morley, and this voucher material is to be found in the Morley Insect Collection now housed (with the exception of the Ichneumonidae), and available for study, at Ipswich Museum. V o u c h e r specimens are particulary important as they provide a Standard against which published records can be tested. Examination of Morley's Coleoptera, has enabled the a u t h o r to correct the following records which have appeared in these Transactions. 1) Agabus

biguttatus

(Olivier)

B u r t o n (1941) reported the collection of two species of water beetle from Suffolk; one new to the County. Morley, as H o n o r a r y Editor, attached to this report a note of his own referring to the capture of A. biguttatus, new to Suffolk, from Framlingham in September 1941. The specimen corresponding to this note, labelled '13.ix.41 stones and mud of a ditch b o t t o m Apsey, Framl.' is present in the Morley Collection a n d , suspecting that it was not biguttatus, I sent it to Dr. G . N. F o s t e r who has identified it as *Agabus guttatus (Paykull). T h e r e do not appear to be any other records of either Agabus biguttatus or guttatus for Suffolk, and so the former species must now be removed from the County List, and the latter added. 2) Arhopalus

tristis (Fabricius)

In the Proceedings of this Society for the year 1949 (7:xvi-xvii), it is reported that Morley exhibited specimens of the longhorn beetle Arhopalus tristis, under the synonymous n a m e Criocephalus polonicus Motschulsky, at a meeting held on the Ist O c t o b e r . These had been taken late in June that year at Fritton Warren, and were said to represent a species new to Suffolk. N e w to Suffolk — for index


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