189. 

 WESTMORLAND COLEOPTERA. 



F. H. DAY, F.E.S. 



Hitherto, I believe, no list of the beetles of Westmorland 

 has been published, although at various times a few notes of 

 captures by visiting coleopterists have appeared in the 

 entomological magazines. 



In and about the year 1905, Mr. T. Bowman, of Tebay, 

 collected extensively in that district, submitting his captuies 

 to Mr. H. Britten, then resident at Great Salkeld, for names. 

 On his removal to Oxford, Mr. Britten placed in my hands the 

 records so obtained, supplementing them later with numerous 

 notes from his own observations in various Westmorland 

 localities. I have also done a little collecting in the county, 

 and think that the accumulated notes now in my possession 

 are of sufficient interest for publication as the basis of a more 

 complete county list. 



I have added a few records on the authority of Rev. T. 

 Blackburn {E.M.M., 1864-5, PP- 145" i47. and 1865-6, pp. 

 87-88) ; of Rev. T. Wood {E.M.M., 1899, p. 213) ; of J. E. 

 Black {Ent. Record, 1904, p. 246) ; and of M. L. Thompson 

 ( The Naturalist, 1913, p. 235) and Mr. Thompson has favoured 

 me with a few additional notes in Hit. I have also used the 

 Westmorland records in Fowler's Coleopteva of the British Isles, 

 which, however, are not numerous, but probabh' include all 

 the information available at the time. With regard to Mr. 

 Black's paper mentioned above, it should be pointed out that 

 the localities referred to are in Westmorland and not Cumber 

 land as stated. 



I shall be glad to hear from any coleopterists who have done 

 any collecting in the county, with a view to incorporating their 

 captures in the list as its publication proceeds. The nomen- 

 clature and arrangement is that of Newbery and Sharp's 

 recently published ' Exchange List,' which is based on the 

 European Catalogue of 1906. 



Geodephaga. 

 Cicindela campestris L. Shap (Day). 

 Cychnis rostratus L. Tebay (Bowman), Witherslack (Day), 



Melkinthorpe (Britten). 

 Carabus violaceus L. var. exasperatns Duft. Tebay (Bowman), 



Kirkby Stephen (Thompson). 

 C. catenulatus Scop. High Str.et (S. Gordon) Ulleswater 



district (Rev. T. Wood). 

 C. nitens L. Tebay, common on the moors (Bowman), 



Brack enber Moor (Day), Kirkby Stephen 



(Thompson). 



1918 June 1. 



