A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



COLEOPTERA 



Beetles 



In the county of Durham, the Coleoptera rank next after the Lepidoptera in the attention 

 they have received from local entomologists, but with two or three notable exceptions that 

 attention has been very slight. Fourteen species were recorded for the south of the county in 

 Hogg's Natural History of the Ficinity of Stockton in 1827. The Rev. George Ornsby gives a 

 list of 194 beetles in his sketches of Durham in 1846, but as some are included which have 

 not since been recorded they must be looked upon as somewhat doubtful. In the middle of 

 last century, Mr. J. T. Bold of Newcastle began issuing his lists of insects, mostly beetles, of 

 Northumberland and Durham, which he revised and completed in 1870. His catalogue, 

 omitting the species with only Northumberland localities, forms the foundation of the following 

 county list. The work was then carried on by Mr. J. Gardner of Hartlepool, who worked 

 hard for many years and added several new records for the county. And now, when failing 

 eyesight has compelled him to desist, the work has been taken up in the northern part of the 

 county by a most promising young entomologist, Mr. R. S. Bagnall of Winlaton, who has 

 not only confirmed several hundreds of Hold's records, but has added a considerable number of 

 new and rare species to the list. To both of these gentlemen, and also to Mr. C. S. Robson of 

 Birtley, I am indebted for a large amount of information which renders the following list, 

 though hurriedly compiled, a fairly correct record of the county species as at present known. 

 The order is that followed in Beare and Donnisthorpe's Catalogue of British Coleoptera published 

 last year (1904). The names of the authorities for the records are appended, as they give a 

 general indication of the locality, Bold's name standing for the north of the county in the 

 middle of the i gth century, Gardner's for the south of the county in the later half of the same 

 century, and Bagnall's for the north of the county in the beginning of the 2Oth century. 1 



CICINDELID^E 



Cicindela, L. 



campestris, L. (Bold, Bag- 



nail, Gardner) 



CARABID^ 



Cychrus, F. 



rostratus, L. (Bold, Robson, 



Bagnall) 

 Carabus, L. 



catenulatus, Scop. (Bold, 



Bagnall, Gardner) 



nemoralis,Mull. (Bold) Near 



Blanchland, Apr., 1903, 

 by Mr. Campbell (Bagnall) 



violaceus, L. (Bold, Robson, 



Bagnall, Gardner) 



nitens, L. (Bold, Bagnall 



Gardner) 



v. niger, Sem. Teesdale 

 (Gardner) 



granulatus, L. (Bold) 



monilis,F. (Corder,Gardner) 



arvensis, Hbst. (Bold, Corder) 

 Notiophilus, Dum. 



biguttatus, F. (Bold, Robson, 



Bagnall, Gardner) 



substriatus, Wat. (Bold, 



Gardner) 



aquaticus, L. (Bold, Bagnall, 



Gardner) 



palustris, Duft. (Bold, 



Bagnall) 



Leistus, Froh. 



spinibarbis, F. (Bold, Bagnall, 



Gardner) 



fulvibarbis, Dj. (Bold, 



Bagnall, Gardner) 



ferrugineus,L. (Bold, Bagnall, 



Gardner) 



rufescens, F. (Bold, Bagnall, 



Gardner) 

 Nebria, Lat. 



brevicollis, F. (Bold, Gard- 



ner) Also Red variety 

 occasionally (Bagnall) 



gyllenhali, Sch. (Bold, Gard- 



ner) 

 Elaphrus, F. 



riparius, L. (Bold, Bagnall) 



cupreus, Duft. (Bold, Bagnall) 

 Loricera, Lat. 



pilicornis, F. (Bold, Bagnall) 

 Clivina, Lat. 



fossor, L. (Bold, Bagnall, 



Gardner) 



collaris, Hbst. (Bold, Bagnall, 



Gardner) 

 Dyschirius, Bon. 



globosus, Hbst. (Bold) 

 Broscus, Pz. 



cephalotes, L. (Bold, Bag- 



nall, Gardner) 

 Badister, Clair. 



bipustulatus, F. (Bold, Bag- 



nall, Gardner) 



sodalis, Duft. Rare. Castle 



Eden Dene (Bold) 



Licinus, L. 



depressus, Pk. Very rare 

 (Bold, Gardner) 



Stenolophus, Dj. 



vespertinus, Pz. Near Ryton 



(Perkins) 

 Bradycellus, Er. 



placidus,Gyll. (Bold, Bagnall, 



Gardner) 



cognatus,Gyll. Rare. On the 



mountains (Bold, Bagnall, 

 Gardner) 



distinctus, Dj. Very rare 



(Bold). West Hartlepool, 

 one specimen (Gardner) 



verbasci, Duft. (Bold, Bag- 



nail, Gardner) 



harpalinus, Dj. (Bold, Gard- 



ner) 



collaris, Pk. (Bold, Gard- 



ner) 



similis, Dj. (Bold, Bagnall, 



Gardner) 

 Harpalus, Lat. 



puncticollis, Pk. (Bold, 



Gardner) 



ruficornis, F. (Bold, Bagnall, 



Gardner) 



aeneus, F. (Bold, Bagnall, 



Gardner) 



tenebrosus, Dj. Very rare 



(Bold) 



rubripes, Duft. (Gardner) 



latus, L. (Bold, Bagnall, 



Gardner) 



1 For further list of Coleoptera see Addenda at end of this article. 



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