1915.] 311 



Patrohus septeyitrionis Dej., in Yorkshire. — Some time ago when looking 

 over an old box of duplicate Coleoptera — a liox which had been packed away 

 with other things and foi-gotten — I noticed an insect which struck me as very 

 unusual. On examination, I found it labelled " Jrizinghall, Bradford, 1889." 

 About this time 1 was only just beginning to pay some little attention to the 

 Coleoptera, and doubtless the specimen was then regarded as a somewhat 

 immature example of the common P. excavatus Payk. After a more recent 

 examination, however, I came to the concliision that the insect was tlie much 

 rarer P. septeritrionis, and Mr. Tomlin has kindly confirmed my determination. 

 There is only one previous Yorkshire record for the species, and this has always 

 been considered doiibtful by our Coleoptorists. — J. W. Carter, 1.5, Westfield 

 Road, Bradfield : October lith, 1915. 



Lesteva luctuosa Fanv., in Yorkshire. — During May last I had the pleasiire 

 of visiting the locality in N.-W. Yorkshire where I took, in July, 1913, three 

 specimens of Lesteva luctuosa Fanv. (Ent. Mo. Mag., March, 1915, p. 125). I 

 am glad to be able to record this species as fairly common, but extremely local. 

 All my examples were captured by shaking moss — since named for me by my 

 friend Mr. Huxley, Eurhynchium rusciforme — which was growing on the sub- 

 merged boulders in the mountain stream. Altliough so early in the season a 

 large number, thirty to forty i^er cent., were imperfect, having lost portions 

 of their legs or antennae, so that, pi-esumably, they have some formidable 

 enemy to contend with. L. luctuosa was introduced to the British fauna by 

 Mr. Donisthorpe (Ent. Record, 1911, j). 301), on the strength of a single 

 specimen taken by him " in the Isle of Eigg, a small island near the Isle of 

 Mull, in the inner Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland." Other beetles 

 ' which I noticed in company with the Lesteva were Platamhus maculatus L., 

 Lesteva longelytrata Goeze, one L. p^ihesceiis Mann., and an abundance of Ehnis 

 aeneus Miill. — J. W. Carter. 



Carahus arvensis Herbst, i»i, Yorkshire. — In refci'ence to Mr. Bayford's note 

 on the occurrence of C. arvensis in Yorkshire (Ent. Mo. Mag., October, 1915, 

 p. 293), I may say that tlie species is found on Baildon Moor, not more than 

 two or three miles away from the City of Bradford. I have two specimens that 

 were taken there, one labelled April, 1897, the other 1898. — J. W. Carter. 



Carabus arvensis in Yorkshire. — In reference to Mr. Bayford's note on the 

 occurrence of this species in Yorkshire {antea p. 293), the insect is apparently 

 more widely distributed in the county than these records seem to show. 

 Mr. M. L. Thompson records its occuiTence on Stanghow Moor, near Saltburn 

 (Proceedings of the Cleveland Naturalists' Field Club, Vol. II, p. 186;, and I 

 have myself taken it in smjill numbers for several years in succession under 

 stones on a grassy part of Eston Nab, an outlier of the Yorkshire Moors in the 

 immediate neighbourhood of Middlesbrough. — Geo. B. Walsh, 166, Bede Burn 

 Road, Jarrow : October 4:th, 1915, 



