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 YORKSHIRE COLEOPTERA IN 1917. 



W. J. FORDHAM, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., F.E.S , 



Bubwith. 



In the preliminary note for publication with the Annual 

 Report of the Y.N.U., it was stated that the list of new species 

 was not great. Since this was written many fresh records 

 have come to hand and the following list includes eleven 

 additions to the county list and the confirmation of a doubtful 

 record, together with an imported species at Middlesbrough. 

 Of these additions perhaps the most interesting to Yorkshire 

 coleopterists is Lissodema cursor Gyll., which was added to 

 the British list under the name of L. heyanum Redt., on 

 specimens taken in Derbyshire by the late Archdeacon Hey. 

 There are many new vice-comital records — 14 for V.C. 61, 3 

 for V.C. 62, 12 for V.C. 63, 36 for V.C. 64 and i for V.C. 65. 

 The large number added to V.C. 64 is incorporated through 

 the kindness of Mr. E. C. Horrell, who has permitted me to 

 extract them from the record book of the Leeds Naturalists' 

 Club. Following a severe winter the past season has been 

 marked by an abundance of beetles, though the writer has 

 found that their duration has been shorter than usual. Mr. 

 M. L. Thompson notes that certain species have occurred this 

 year which are somewhat irregular in their appearance, some- 

 times several years elapsing between their advent, for some 

 reason at present obscure and inexplicable. 



Mr. E. G. Bayford remarks that Pterostichus madidus and 

 Ocypus olens are increasingly common in the Barnsley district, 

 and communicates the following interesting observation : — 

 ' On Whit-Tuesday I was in Wentworth Park and for quite a 

 long time watched a specimen of P. madidus busy destroying 

 a species of Andrena which had numerous burrows in the hard 

 footpath. Its habit was to wait until the bee had gone into 

 its burrow, when it followed, and I suppose there was a tragedy 

 as I did not excavate the burrow to make sure. The beetle 

 went to work in a very business-like manner.' 



The breeding out of Aleochara bilineata Gyll. by Mr. Parkin, 

 of Wakefield, from the pupa cases of the Cabbage Fly, confirms 

 Mr. Wadsworth's researches.* The beetle larva penetrates 

 the puparium and feeds on the enclosed pupa of the fly. Very 

 little has been published during the year relating to Yorkshire 

 Coleoptera, but a note on additional Coleoptera in 1916 (which 

 contains three new county records) in The Naturalist, 1917, 

 p. 160, should be not be overlooked. As in former years, the 

 members of the committee are much indebted to Messrs. E. A. 

 Newbery, W. E. Sharp and J. R. le-B. Tomlin for help in the 



* Journ. Econ. Biol., 1915, June, pp. 1-27. 

 1918 Mar. 1. 



