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tional localities for many of the local species, testifies to the excellent 

 work done in recent years by the Yorkshire lepidopterists. The niira- 

 ber of species now recorded for Yorkshire is 1B79, i.e. 6-1-4 per cent, 

 of the British fauna. We congratulate the author on so useful a piece 

 of work. 



Mr. Champion separates Catnps sericeus, Panz., from <!. sencatns, 

 Chaud., and states that both occur in Britain, The same coleopterist 

 asserts that Ehi/ncJntes sericeim, Herbst, is not British. 



Will any lepidopterists who are rearing any British species of Alucitids, 

 Hepialids, Cossids, Zeuzerids, Nolids, Liparids, Notodontids (common 

 as well as rare), send us notes (for use in our work Bn'tish Lepidoptera) 

 on the following points : — Ovum : When laid — where laid — when 

 hatched. Measurements of axes (2 in upright, 3 in flat eggs). Appear- 

 ance — shape — colour — sculpturing, near base, at centre of egg, round 

 micropyle — character of micropyle. Colour changes. Larva: (a) When 

 hatched {lf<t instar) — naked eye appearance — markings- -subsegments 

 — colour — pattern, {h) Measurpinents and structural characters — par- 

 ticular notice of head structure — of thoracic segments — of 8th abdo- 

 minal — fusion of 9th and 10th abdominals — prolegs. Date of moult- 

 ing (2nil instar) — a and h as above. Date of moulting {3rd instar) — a 

 and h as above. Date of moulting {4th inatar) — a and b as above, etc. 

 PuPAEiUM : Position — structure — measurements. Attachment of pupa. 

 Date of pupation. Appearance of newly-formed pupa. Changes in 

 appearance till mature pupal colour is reached. Eggs, larvae, and pupae 

 for description are badly needed, and should be sent to Mr. A. W. Bacot, 

 154, Lower Clapton Road, London, N.E. 



iirOLEOPTERA. 



CoLEOPTEEA IN CUMBERLAND IN 1903. — In working through the 

 fairly numerous species taken in this county last year, not a few turn 

 out to be additions to our steadily increasing fauna ; and although the 

 weather could not well have been much worse for field work I invariably 

 found that beetles were by no means uncommon, and, indeed, upon 

 one or two occasions, my captures were more than I could conveniently 

 set. To run briefly through the list, I may mention that at the height 

 of summer Carabus glabratiis, Payk., was exceptionally common in a 

 particular part of the Scawfell district, and I found that there was 

 nothing like a good soaking rain to bring this beetle out of its hiding- 

 places. On such an occasion thirty fine specimens were taken in an 

 hour or so. Of course, it is the slugs which the rain brings out, that 

 the beetles are after, and several times I saw a (./labratiis carrying off a 

 black Arum much bigger than itself. On the Solway marshes 

 Di/schiriiifi nitidus, Dej., again occurred sparingly, and on the Pennine 

 uplands BradijceUiis fognatits. Gyll., B. collaris, Payk., and the other 

 usual mountain Geodephaga. Harpalus rubripea, Duft., I took for 

 the first time at Silloth, a single specimen. I also took a single 

 Auisodactijltis binotatiis, F., var. spvrcatirornis, Dej., with the 

 typical form. Another single capture was Pturustichus minor, Gyll., a 

 new county record. Ancliotnenua tiiicans, Nic, was also a new record. 

 It occurred not uncommonly in flood-refuse and muddy places. Hydra- 

 porus ubsulettia, Aube, was found in two different parts of the Eden 



