COX, L.G.

Published 'Obrium brunneum (Fab.) new to the British List' with P.Harwood, in EMM., 72, 1936, p.149. I have seen specimens collected by him in the E.C.Bedwell collection at the Castle Museum, Norwich, and in the general collection at Doncaster Museum (dated 1919). Hancock and Pettit (1981) record that Britten's collection at Manchester includes Cox specimens. Mackechnie Jarvis, (1976) p.109, notes that Cox's main collection was acquired by L.Christie. I assume that this is the same Cox who is recorded in the Insect Department Register at Cambridge as giving G.W.Nicholson's collection of Coleoptera, including notebooks, to the Museum on 11 July 1957. Peter Hodge published a note on the Beetles-British Isles web site (21 November 2003) concerning some photocopies from a diary sent to him by Jonathan Cooter in the early 1980s which he believed may have belonged to Cox. The entries concerned collections of beetles at Bexhill-on-Sea in 1967/68, Glasgow University grounds in 1967 and at Bangor on 19 October 1968, but it was subsequently suggested by John Bratton after a comparison of the Bangor material with Joan Morgan’s records, that these referred to G.J.Jackson. I assume that this is the same Cox who is recorded in the Insect Department Register at Cambridge as giving G.W.Nicholson's collection of Coleoptera, including notebooks, to the Museum on 11 July 1957. (MD 4/02, 1/07)