86 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



SOME RECORDS OF COLEOPTERA FROM 

 NORTHERN SCOTLAND. 



By D. Sharp, M.A., F.R.S. 



DURING his stay in the North of Scotland in the year 191 1, 

 Colonel Yerbury collected some species of Coleoptera. His 

 attention was chiefly devoted to the Diptera, so that the 

 beetles he met with do not give anything like an idea of the 

 extent of the Coleopterous fauna of the spots he collected at. 

 Yet as records from the North of Scotland are very scanty 

 as regards Coleoptera, I think it is worth while publishing a 

 complete list of those he sent to me. 



The localities are Dingwall in May, Inchnadamph in June, 

 Lochinver in July, and Nethy Bridge in September. The two 

 localities in West Sutherland (Inchnadamph and Lochinver) 

 are the most important, because knowledge of the entomology 

 of that region is very limited. Nethy Bridge is better known ; 

 still even there Colonel Yerbury met with two species of great 

 interest, viz., Amphicyllis globus, which is a very unexpected 

 addition to the Scottish fauna, and Leptura sanguinolenla, 

 which appears in Britain to occur only in Moray, where it is 

 extremely rare. 



Notiophilus pains tris and N. biguttatus, Inchnadamph ; 

 Carabus glabratus, Nethy Bridge and Lochinver; C. catenu- 

 latus, Nethy Bridge ; Leistus rufescens, Nebria brevicollis and 

 gyllenhali, Inchnadamph; Calathus cisteloides and melano- 

 cephalus, Nethy Bridge; Pterostichus niger, Inchnadamph 

 and Nethv Bridge; P. nigrita, Inchnadamph; Amara aulica, 

 Inchnadamph and Nethy Bridge; Harpalus latus, Patrobus 

 clavipes, and Trechus obtusus, Inchnadamph ; Bembidium 

 paludosum and littorale, Nethy Bridge ; B. guttula, Dingwall. 



Colymbetes fuscus, Nethy Bridge; Anaccena globulus, Inch- 

 nadamph ; Limnebius truncatellus, Dingwall ; Sphceridium 

 scarabccoidcs, Inchnadamph; Cercyon luemorrhoidale and 

 laterale, Nethy Bridge. 



Aleochara lanuginosa, Homalota fungi, Bolitobius atrica- 

 pillus, and Tachyporus hypnorum, Dingwall ; Tachinus 

 proximus and pallipes, Nethy Bridge ; T. rufipes, Dingwall 



