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ColeopUra from Wensleydale (Yoredale), Yorkshire. — To one whose col- 

 lecting- had previously been conllned aiiunst entirely to the South (Sussex), a 

 short lioliday at Aysgarth was very productive of useful insects. Fortunately 

 the weather favoured us, and thougli I was the only entomological member of 

 the purtv, we all spent nearly the. whole ot' everyday out on the moors. On 

 August 28th I arrived at Leyburn late in the afternoon, armed with a sleeping- 

 bag, etc., walked to Agglethorpe and there "camped" for the night beside a 

 small pond. Searching the banks of the pond produced nothing beyond Nebria 

 brevicoUis and Agonum albipes by the score. The next day I walked by a 

 circuitous route to the river near Swinithwaite. Under a half-submerged 

 stone I got a nice series of Dianous caerulescens, and in a dog washed high 

 up into a tree by the winter's flood a remarkable specimen of Necrophorus 

 humator was found ; it is very small and narrow, and on the left elytron are 

 two small dark red spots, corresponding in poriition to the bands on N. vespillo, 

 etc. I next walked to Aysgarth to meet the rest of the party. During our 

 two weeks spent there the following were found : — 



Nehria gyllenliali, Carperby, under stone near a "beck," and on the bank 

 of R. XJre (Yore). Calatlius melanocepludns was abundant everywhere, but on 

 the top of Penhill it was replaced by C. micropterus. Pati obus excavatus, 

 top of Addlebrough Hill. Pterostichus vitreus [adstrictus], top of Penhill : 

 P. aetlnups, Aysgarth. Bembidion tibiale, Carperby, by beck ; B.atrocoeruleum, 

 on banks of R. Ure, with B. litforale and femovatum. Hydroporua umhrosus, 

 yylleiilinii, and celatus (?), peat ponds on Penhill. Qi/edius auricomus and 

 nmbrinus, in moss by waterfall in Gill Beck, the former in plentv ; Q. boops, 

 Harland Hill. Lathrobmm fuhyipenne, common on Penhill. Silplia atrata 

 ab. hruniiea, Thoralby, under stone. Trijfltyllus (Pseudo/ripJiyllus) sufnralis, 

 Swinithwaite, in Polyjwrus. S'modendron cijlindriciun, several in ;ish log. 

 Freeholder's Wood. Aphodius lapponum, Harland Hill, cow droppings; 

 A. putridus (foetidus), Addlebrough Hill, m dercore oviiio. Serica brunnea, 

 one in dry flond-retuse, R. Ure. Niptus crenatus, Aysgarth, in house. Lonyi- 

 tarsiis sticcineus. Aysgarth. Phytlodecta riteUtnae, near R. Ure. Otiorrhynchus 

 ovalus and O. rugifrons, under stones by R. Ure and Gill Beck respectively 

 Metoccm paradoxus, at Penhill a fine 5 fl«w in front of me and alighted on a 

 tree-trunk over a hedge ; I, luckily, climbed over and caught it before it got 

 out of reach.— Georgk Ryle, 28 Soutlimoor Road, Oxford : November 30th, 

 1920. 



A Note on Co/eoptero hi drift pii/t-toys.—'Reft'.i'riug to my record in the 

 " Ent. Mo. Mag." for June 1918, p. 1.37, of the capture of numbers of specimens of 

 Acanthocimts aedilit from pine-logs washed up at Murtehoe, N. Devon, I am 

 now able to supplement the above note by recording various other species 

 taken under the same conditions. These beetles have been identified by 

 Mr. J. H. Keys of Plymouth, who also submitted them to Mr. E. 

 A. Newbeiy, to both of whom my best thanks are due. Thana&imns formi- 

 carius L., Stereocorynes tninconim Germ., Hylastes aier Pk., Pissodes pini 

 L., Tomieus sexdentatus Born, and the following, which are not on the British 

 List : — Hypophloeus fraxini Kugel. ? or K. pini Panz., whicli lives in the borings 

 of T. sexdentatus ?i\\A preys upon its larva; Tomieus erosus WolL; Hyluryus 

 ligniperda F. ; Platysoma oblonymn F. As a factor in the dispersal of insects 

 the above is of interest. — Chas. Bartlett, Morweustow, Portishead, Somerset : 

 December 6th, 1920. 



