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I have the following additional modern records for B. ephippium: 19–26 August 2003, 1 ex. in pitfall trap, East Scrape, R.S.P.B. Minsmere Reserve (TM 4766). G. Lyons. 12 September 2003, 3 exx. on saline lagoon edges, R.S.P.B. Havergate Island Reserve (TM 4147). M . Telfer. 25 September 2003, abundant on mud by saline pool, Shingle Street (TM 3743). 21 June 2004, abundant on muddy margins of most saline pools, Orfordness (TM 4449). N. Cuming. Also recorded from Havergate Island in a survey carried out in 1992–3 but without precise date of occurrence (Jones, n. d.) Tachys scutellaris is another local, coastal species and occurs from Norfolk to north Devon. It is associated with muddy conditions in saltmarshes or around brackish water. I have the following modern records for T. scutellaris: 18 September 1997, R.S.P.B. Havergate Island Reserve (TM 4248). R. Key. 19–26 August 2003, 5 exx. in pitfall traps, East Scrape, R.S.P.B. Minsmere Reserve (TM 4766). G. Lyons. 12 September 2003, common on edges of saline lagoons, R.S.P.B. Havergate Island Reserve (TM 4147). M. Telfer. 21 June 2004, abundant on muddy margins of most saline pools, Orfordness (TM 4348). N. Cuming. Also recorded without precise date in the 1992–3 Havergate Island Invertebrate Survey (Jones, n. d.). Morley appears not to have taken B. ephippium in Suffolk and never to have found T. scutellaris. Harpalus serripes (Quensel in Schoenherr) Nb Luff , in his “Atlas” (1998), shows that this very localised ground beetle is now apparently confined to the south coast of England and South Wales but refers to older, inland records northwards into East Anglia although none for Suffolk are shown on the map for the species. H. serripes was first found in the county by E. A. Elliott who discovered it in June, 1903 whilst grubbing at plant roots on the crag cliffs at Felixstowe, VC25 [TM 33] (Morley, 1915). It was next reported in the Suffolk Breck by Horace Donisthorpe who discovered it on 17 May 1920 in some recently dug sand pits at Freckenham, VC26 [TL 67] (Donisthorpe, 1920a). Against serripes in Morley’s own copy of his 1915 “First Supplement” is added “Covehithe sandhills, 26. vii. 1924 (C. M.)”. No specimen of serripes from this date is present in his collection. Elliott in his “Critical Notes” (1936), however, refers to a beetle from that date and locality which that year Morley had re-determined as Harpalus Frolichi (sic). It is highly likely that this was the “serripes” referred to by Morley in his annotation as well as in his diary for 1924 but the specimen is not present in Morley’s series of froelichi. Examination of two Harpalus taken under stones on Covehithe cliff on 10
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