74 YORKSHIRE COLEOPTERA IN 1916. 



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



Very little has been published during the year relating to 

 the Coleopterous fauna of the count}'. Ihe only excursion? 

 of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at which beetles were 

 obtained were Malton (see The Naturalist, 1916, Aug., p. 

 265 — 32 species), and Bolton Woods (The Naturalist, 1916. 

 Sept., p. .293 — 53 species, including Malthodes brevicollis Pk. 

 (nigellus Kics) new to the county). 



Mr. C. Mosley ha? an interesting note (wth photograph) 

 on Brachycerus cinereus 01., an impoited Weevil at Sheffield 

 (The Naturalist, 1916, May, p. 174). 



In The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for 1916 are 

 several notes of interest to Yorkshire Coleopterists, including 

 in March, an Obituary Notice of Edward Alexander Water- 

 house. When a young man, Mr. Waterhouse was Museum 

 Curator to Earl de Grey at Fountains Hall, and added many 

 rare and interesting species to the Yorkshire list from Studley 

 and neighbourhood, as the list of Yorkshire beetles in the 

 Victoiia County History, Canon Fowler's ' British Coleoptera,' 

 and the early volumes of the E.M.M. testify . The Waterhouse 

 Collection cf British Coleoptera, which probably contains 

 main Yorkshire species, is now in the Museum of the Entom- 

 ological Department of Eainburgn University. 



Mr. E. G. Bay ford notes that during the past year, the 

 most noticeable thing has been the profusion of Pterostichus 

 madidus F., which has swarmed all over the Barnsley district. 

 The capture of a specimen of Leptura. sanguinolenta L. has 

 already been recorded. He has seen a specimen oi Blethisa 

 multipi'.nctata L. taken on August 19th by the side of a stream 

 running through a field at Beeston, near Leeds, thus providing 

 a fresh locality for this very local and uncommon insect. A 

 few specimens of this beetle have also turned up again in Mr. 

 Bay for el's original locality. 



Mr. J. W. Carter contributes the following list of species 

 from the Bradford district : — 



Coleoptera. 

 Synuchus (Taphria) nivalis Panz. Grassington. F. Rhodes. 

 Oxypoda opaca Gr. Addingham. F. Rhodes. 

 O. haemorrhoa Mann. Bingley. F. Rhodes. *64. (There is 



only one previous record. Scarborough. 1865). 

 Aleochara maesta Gr. Sunnydale. J. Ashworth. 

 Atheta insecta Th. Bradford. T. Stringer. ^63. 

 \Atheta aterrima Gr. Bingley. F. Rhodes. 

 Conosoma littoreum L. Frizinghall. F. Rhodes. 

 Tachinus laticollis Gr. Bingley. F. Rhodes. *64. 

 Philonthus longicomis Steph. Frizinghall. F. Rhodes. ^63. 

 Stilicus rufipes Germ and S. erichsoni Fauv. (orbicularis Er.). 

 Addingham. F. Rhodes. 



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