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Notes on further additions, etc., to the Coleoptera of the 

 Northumberland and Durham district. 



By RICHARD S. BAGNALL, F.E.S. 

 Owing to our northern counties having been so well worked by 

 Messrs. Bold and Hardy, almost any addition is sure to be (to some, at 

 least) of more than ordinary interest, and with this idea in view I have 

 pleasure in recording some recent additions. The species obtained by 

 Mr. Gardner were mostly captured by sweeping the railway embank- 

 ments near Hartlepool, and were amongst a parcel he sent me of very 

 interesting, but undetermined, beetles. Before commencing I would 

 acknowledge my indebtedness to Messrs. Donisthorpe and Newbery 

 for the more than kindly help they have given me in identifying and 

 confirming the identification of the more difficult species. Nebria 

 GYLLENHALi, Sch., var. RUFESCENs, Stroom. — Derwent Valley, etc. 

 Abiara anthobia, Villa. — Mr. Willoughby Ellis records the capture of 

 one example at Hartlepool, May, 1892 (/v»i. Mo. Ma;/., 1905, p. 161, 

 Eev. G. A. Crawshay). To what extent this new British beetle 

 occurs at Hartlepool, I do not yet know, but hope shortly to examine 

 Mr. Gardner's series of the allied species, A. fainiliaris and A. lucida. 

 Anchomenus gracilis, Gyll. — Near Burnopfield. Agabus conspersus, 

 Marsh. — In a pond near Winlaton. Platambus maculatus, L., var. 

 IMMACULATUS, Donis. — I have taken a few of this form unaccompanied 

 by type from a stream running into the Derwent at Gibside. Cercyon 

 LiTTORALis, Gyll., var. binotatum, Steph. — Eare, with type at Eoker. 

 Mr. Eoutledge has taken it at Long Houghton, near Alnwack. 

 Leptusa analis, Gyll. — I took two examples of this Scotch "staph" at 

 Egglestone, in Teesdale, June, 1905. Conosoma pedicularium, Gr. — 

 By sweeping, South Hylton, June, 1905. Megaceonus inclinans, 

 Gr. — One specimen from beneath a log of oak, Gibside, October, 

 1905. Heterothops dissimilis, Gr. — By sweeping near Winlaton 

 Mill, June. Quedius longicornis, Kr. — This very rare Quedius 

 has been taken at Hartlepool and in Teesdale by Mr. Gardner, 

 and has occurred to me in the Derwent Valley, June. Quedius 

 MiCROPS, Gr. (cHRYSURUs, Kies.). — One example from Gibside. 

 Quedius obliteratus, Er. — I am very glad to give this species 

 — added to the British catalogue by Mr. Keys two years ago — a 

 place in our list. Mr. Donisthorpe netted an example on the wing 

 at Gibside, this October. Curiously enough, I had taken the true Q. 

 siitinolis, Kies., in the same district. Quedionuchus l^vigatus, Gyll. 

 — Professor Beare and I took this Scotch species from beneath beech 

 bark, Gibside, in June, 1905. I had the species unrecognised in my 

 collection, and have since taken a nice series and larvae — all from 

 under beech bark. Owing to its occurring exclusively from pine and 

 fir bark both in Scotland and on the continent, I may have more to say 

 about the Gibside capture. Cafius xantholoma, Gr., var. variolosus, 



