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YORKSHIRE COLEOPTERA IN 1902. 



M. LAWSON THOMPSON. F.E.S.. 



Saliburn-by-the-Sea ; 



Hon. Secretary Yorkshire Coleoptera Committee. 



The season 1902 has not been a very favourable one for the 

 coleopterist. there being- few warm, sunny days during- the 

 summer to bring- beetles under observation. Nevertheless a 

 few really interesting species have been met with. Members 

 of the committee attended the meetings of the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union at Coxwold, Bawtry, Baugh Fell, and Brim- 

 ham Rocks. At Coxwold (on May 19th) I met with 38 species, 

 a list of which is included in the Rev. T. Ainsworth Brode's 

 account of the meeting."" The coleopterists present at the 

 Bawtry meeting (on July loth) were Messrs. E. G. Bayford and 

 H. H. Corbett, who did a little collecting in spite of the heavy 

 rain ; 18 species were found. t Mr. H. Ostheide and the writer 

 visited Baug-h Fell on August 2nd and 4th, and our joint list 

 contains 50 more or less common species. Brimham Rocks, on 

 September 24th, proved a fairly good locality, and I met with 

 35 beetles. 



Mr. H. H. Corbett has done some good work in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Doncaster, and kindly furnishes me with some 

 notes on the results of his collecting. 



The following is a list of the most interesting coleoptera 

 taken during 1902. I have selected from material before me 

 only such species for which the Yorkshire records are at present 

 deficient. Those marked with an asterisk seem to be altog-ether 

 new to the county. B. = E. G. Bayford, C. = H. H. Corbett, 

 H. = W. C. Hey, O. = H. Ostheide, T. = M. L. Thompson. 

 Notiophilus substriatus Wat. Cusvvorth, near Doncaster (C). 

 Blethisa multipunctata L. RyhiU Reservoir, near Barnsley, one speci- 

 men in September (B.). 

 Badister sodalis Dutt. {humeralis Bon.). Edling-ton, near Doncaster (C). 

 Chlaenius vestitus Payk. Eight specimens on the cliffs between Brid- 

 ling-lon Quay and Sewerby (H., 'The Naturalist' for 1902, p. 259). 



Bradycellus placidus Gyll. Wheatley Wood, near Doncaster (B. and C). 



Amara similata Gyll. Doncaster (C). 



Anchomenus marginatus L. Carrhaze Pond, Filey (H.). Cusworth, 



near Doncaster (C). Worsboroug-h Reservoir, near Barnsley (B.). 

 Bembidium atrocasruleum Steph. Hebblethwaite Gill, near Sedbergh 



(O.). 

 *Aepus marinus Strom. Saltburn, on the coast ; under large stones 



embedded in shingle at high-water mark, June (T. ). 



* ' The Naturalist ' for 1902, p. 283. f ' The Naturalist ' for 1902, p. 375. 

 1903 October i. 



