416 The Coleoptera of Bishopdale, Yorks. 
was an almost useless implement, common roadside beetles 
being conspicuous by their absence, but this paucity must be 
ascribed less to the poverty of the locality than to causes 
beyond our present knowledge which seem to have operated 
over the whole of this country during the summer of the 
present year. In fact the only species noted in the sweep- 
net were Anaspis frontalis, Liosoma ovatulum, Apion hema- 
todes, and A. humile, Malthodes mysticus, Sitones hispidulus, — 
S. sulcifrons, and, where fir trees overhung the road, Cyphon 
padi. Beating was, if possible, still more futile; in fact 
the only bushes to be beaten were the sallows and alders 
of the stream, and these produced nothing. The methods of 
collecting, indeed, ultimately resolved themselves into shaking 
out over large sheets of brown paper the lower layers of the 
haycocks which studded the mown grass-land all down the 
dale, searching among the shingle and in the wet moss of the 
stream, and finally,, tearing in pieces the still thicker moss 
which bordered the mountain rivulets in the higher levels of 
the valley. 
All these methods yielded beetles, principally of the most 
abundant and universally distributed species. For instance, 
one pulled a haycock to pieces, shook out its damp lower . 
parts, and found Pterostichus vulgaris and P. strenuus, Amara 
communis and Trechus obtusus, Patrobus excavatus in abundance, 
Philonthus decorus, Stenus speculator, S. similis and S. unicolor, 
Tachinus rufipes, Choleva tristis and C. grandvcollis, and such 
smaller beetles as Typhea fumata, Cryptophagus affinis, 
Atomaria ruficornis and A. fuscata, Enicmus minutus, Megas- 
ternum bolitophagum, Homalium rivulare, such common Homa- 
lote as H. circellaris, H. atramentaria and H. fungi, and among 
the Rhynchophora,. Erirhinus acridulus and Rhinonchus peri- 
carpius, while perhaps not quite so familiar to the eye of the 
southern coleopterist were Tachinus collaris in abundance. 
Barynotus elevatus, B. schénherri, and Tropiphorus tomentosus. 
Then we attacked the stream, and here perhaps the most 
interesting capture of the expedition was made. In one 
locality, where the bank was a little steep and formed of 
light soil, one noticed the subterranean burrows and little 
heaps of ejected sand, like the tracks of some microscopic 
mole, made by a Bledius. Carefully excavating these with 
the point of a penknife, the beetle was discovered within 
perhaps half an inch of the surface. It proved to be Bledius 
gulielnu Shp., a species hitherto only recorded from the banks 
of a stream near Middlesbrough and added to the British 
list from those examples. 
Searching among the shingle produced none of the Bembidia 
usually common in such localities, but Helophorus arvernicus, 
H. brevipalpis, H. viridicollis, and H. aquaticus, Dryops 
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