140 Fordham : Yorkshire Coleoptera in 1920. 



probably refer to pennatus, which is not uncommon in the Bubwith 

 district. Also Lathrobium geminum Kr. (boreale Brit. Cat.) should 

 be noted as the species previously recorded as elongatum L.). 



Stichoglossa corticina Er. still stands in our list on a record from 

 Filey, E. C. Horrell (Y. C. C. Report, 1914). 



Oxypoda spectabilis Mark. Carter Tvnowle, Sheffield, 10/19, J ^I- B., 

 ♦63. This rare species is only on record from Studley and Scar- 

 borough district. 



Phlfpopora tesiacea Mann, (reptans Or.). Bubwith, 10/17, ^^'- J- F., 

 *6i. Wykeham, G. B. W.. *62. 



Atheta aqitaiica Th. Bubwith, 6/17, in dead hen, W. J. F., *6i. 

 f/l. palustris Kies. Bubwith flood refuse, Jan., 1915, W. J. P., a 



moderately common species. 

 ^A. {Plagiarthrina) fordhamiana Keys. Described as new to science by 

 Mr. J. H. Keys on specimens taken in flood refuse. Bubwith 

 {E.M.M., 1920, p. 131). 



A. crassicornis F. (fimgicola Th.). Bubwith, in flood refuse, and 

 Ellerton, in fungus, W. J. F., *6i. 



A. trinotata Kr. See W. Falconer, The Naturalist, 1920, Aug., p. 248, 

 for notes on the supposed parasitism of this species, on a dipterous 

 puparium. Members of the closely related genus Aleochara have 

 been frequently bred out from dipterous pupai and the extension 

 of the habitat to Atheta opens up a wide field for observation. 

 t^ . luleipes Er. Flood refuse, Bubwith, 9/ig, J. H. Keys. Most o 

 the records for this species are from the Southern half of England, 

 but it has occurred in the Isle of Man and Ireland. It is a river 

 bank and marsh loving species, 

 f/l. decipiens Shp. Bubwith, flood refuse, G. B. W. .\nother marsh 



species only previously taken rarely in the South of England. 

 f Atheta granigera 'Kies. {crassicorms Gyll.). A male and female taken 

 bv J. M. B. in Sept., 1910, at Millhouses and Carter Knowlc, Sheffield. 

 This is a rare northern species, but has occurred on Chat Moss, near 

 Manchester. 



Quedius nigriceps Kr. Ecclesall Woods, Sheffield, J. M. B. 



Ontholestes tesselatus Geoff. Deerhill Reservoir, Meltham, C. A. 

 Cheetham (]. W. C). 



Dianous coerulescens Gyll. Not uncommon under stones in brook in 



Ecclesall Woods, Sheffield, 5/20, J. M. B. 

 'rStenus fuscicornis Er. Two in wet moss, Brignal! Banks, Sept., M. L. T. 

 New to north of England ; only known from London district pre- 

 viously, but very common in France. 



Lesteva heeri Fauv. Forge Valley, not uncommon in moss, G. B. W. 



Homalium septentrionis Gh. Scalby beck, one in flood refuse, G. B. W. 



Bythinus burrelli Den. Scalby, G. B. W. (one of Lawson's Scarborough 

 captures). 



Stenichnus scutellaris Miill. Ecclesall Woods, Sheffield, J. M. B., *63. 



Catops watsoni Spence. Raincliffe Woods, among dead leaves, G. B. W. 



NecYophorus humator Goeze. Mr. G. B. Ryle records a small narrow 

 aberration taken at Aysgarth with two small dark red spots on left 

 elytron [E. M. M., 1921, 15). 



Xylodrepa ^-punctata L. Ecclesall Woods, on oaks, not uncommon in 

 early summer, J. M. B. This species also occurs in several woods in 

 Derbyshire (near Sheffield). 



Silpha tyrolensis Laich var. nigi'ita Crentz. Bilton, near Harrogate, 

 6/20, A. E. W. 



Liodes cinnamomea Pz. Raincliffe Woods, end of October, 4 examples 

 in rain water pools on road, G. B. W. and A. E. W., *62. 



L. rugosa Steph. Raincliffe Woods, one by night sweeping in late 

 October, G. B. W. 



Epurcua angusiul(\ Er. Ecclesall Woods, April and May, in birch 



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