30 [February, 



On July 10th I watched some hali'-dozen whirling round a tree, 

 catching scores of small flies ; they kept well out of the reach of my 

 net, and finally disappeared at seven minutes to 9 o'clock, but this 

 time hardly conveys a fair idea of how late they may remain on the 

 wing, inasmuch as it was just as dark on this evening at a quarter-past 

 nine as it was on the previous day at a quarter to ten p.m. I was 

 sorry I had to leave the locality on the next morning, or otherwise I 

 think I might have had some good evening sport with this very local 

 JEschna. 



Ivy House, New Maiden, Surrey : 

 November 6tk, 1905. 



NOiES ON SOME COLEOPTERA IxMPOKTED INTO OUR 

 NORTHERN PORTS. 



BY RICHARD S. BAGNALL, F.E.S. 



Owing to the large amount of timber which comes into the 

 chief northern ports, Newcastle, Hartlepool, and Sunderland, many 

 interesting beetles of foreign origin have been discovered about our 

 quays and timber yards. This imported timber, which is chiefly used 

 for " pit-props," comprises pine, fir, larch, birch, and sometimes alder, 

 and is shipped from the Baltic ports, &c. Jn the light of the recent 

 remarkable captures in Britain of certain Longicorns (previously 

 unknown as indigenous), 1 think a list of these imported insects will 

 prove to be interesting, as many of the Longicorns herein recorded 

 may yet be found breeding with us, and perhaps owe their origin to 

 the Hartlepool " pit-props," which are used in collieries far and wide. 

 The species recorded from Hartlepool ^vere mostly captured by 

 Mr. Gardner, to whom I am greatly indebted for his kindly help in 

 preparing these notes. Mr. Donisthorpe has been kind enough to 

 identify several of those recorded in the following list, which also 

 includes those recorded by Bold. 



MacTonychus {?) parumoculatus, Hardy : an evidently exotic species found by 

 Hardy in an old collection of beetles, said to have been made in the Newcastle 

 district. Chrysohothris chrysostigma, L. : Mr. Grardner has taken an example of this 

 European Buprestid at Hartlepool. Nitidula flexuosa, V. : sands at South Shields 

 (Bold). Sinoxylon cinaie, Lesne : an Indian Bostrichid injurious to bamboos, &c. ; 

 several examples were recently found in some furniture (at Newcastle) which originally 

 came from India. Semanotus^indatus,Ij. : Hartlepool, two examples. Tetropium 

 luridum, L., var. ? : Hartlepool, several specimens. Callidiwn violaceum, L., 

 Phymatodes variabilis, L. : several specimens of each species have occurred at 



