The New ‘ Fowler’ and Yorkshire Coleoptera. 257 
These comments were quite correct when published, they are incorrect 
now, but as they are not corrected in the Supplement the work now 
conveys to the reader a false impression of the distribution of these species 
in the British Isles. The following records are from the list in the Victoria 
County History unless otherwise stated :— 
Blechrus maurus, Humber Bank, T.S. (The Naturalist, 1909, 352). 
Atemeles emarginatus, Near Doncaster (H. H. C.) (47th Ann. Rep. 
YUNA, “pp: 20). 
Pyognatha quadricornis, Raincliff Wood, near Scarborough (R.L.), 
Croft (G. T. Rudd), near Doncaster (H.H.C., E.G. B.). 
Dorcus pavallelopipedus, Studley (E. A. W.), Huddersfield (G. T. 
Porritt), Conisborough (H. H.C.), near Doncaster (H. H. C., 
i. Gree), 
Saperda populnea, Askham Bog (M.L.T.), near Selby (C.D.A.), Mean- 
wood, near Leeds (W.D.R.), Askern (A. R. Heath). 
Further evidence of lack of Teutonic thoroughness is on page 283, 
where Leptidea brevipennis is recorded from ‘ Huddersfield (Mosley).’ 
In The Naturalists’ Journal for 1898 is an article on this species by Mr. 
E. A. Newberry [stc} I had communicated to Mr. Mosley that I had 
taken the species, along with Gracilia minuta, in a fruiterer’s warehouse 
in Barnsley, and in consequence he appended a note, ‘ L. brevzpennts is 
not uncommon in some of the fruit shops in Barnsley ’ (italics mine). Mr. 
Newbery repeated the remark (E.M.M. for 1899, page 292), and there 
is little doubt that it is this record which in the Supplement is given to 
Huddersfield. Frankly, this portion of the work, which is about one- 
third of the whole, cannot but be disappointing to Yorkshire Coleopterists, 
because they know that a large body of useful material has been ignored. 
They know of Yorkshire specimens of Corymbites metallicus, Pyvopterus, 
Crypticus, Heliopathes, Phaleria, and Clinocava, and a host of others. 
which this book ought to record and does not. It must also disappoint 
those Coleopterists who, while not in our county, are endeavouring to 
gain a thorough knowledge of the distribution of species in these isles, 
and naturally expected to find the space devoted to records which would 
bring the recorded distribution up to date. The value of this part of the 
book will be found in what may be called the ‘ asides ’ of Mr. Donisthorpe, 
an illuminating remark here and there which marks him as a keen observer 
of differentiating distinctions. This is his metier, and he does it succinctly 
and well. The remainder of the work, the foundation of it in fact, for 
which Canon Fowler is responsible, is quite in keeping with, and a fitting 
continuation of the preceding five volumes. That it has been possible 
to preserve the spirit of the work after an interval of over twenty years 
is of itself sufficient indication that when Coleopterists have become 
accustomed to its necessarily disconnected arrangement they will prize 
the Supplement as they have hitherto done the original work. 
It may be as well to point out that two species not hitherto known to 
occur in the county are given Yorkshire records, viz ° 
Panageus crux-majoy 1., Eastoft, Yorks (Crawshay) (p. 203). 
Grammoptera holomelina Pool, Yorkshire (E. A. Waterhouse). One 
specimen taken thirty years ago (p. 157). 
This last would probably be in the Ripon district, where it is known 
Mr. Waterhouse resided for some time. 
2O:; 
Under the head of ‘ Where to find it,’ in a recent Nature Study publi- 
cation, we notice two entries, as the editors feel ‘sure workers will be glad 
to be directed to what they want.’ The second entry reads ‘ Cumberland 
and Westmorel’d (sic) Carb. Succ. Pls. mps. OQ. J. Geol. Soc., December.’ 
We certainly think a prize should be offered to the beginner who can say 
what it is he has found! 
1913 July 1. 
