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NOTES— COLEOPTERA. 



Aphodius tessulatus at Huddersfield. — It may be of interest to record that 

 we have found this somewhat rare beetle in some numbers in cows' dung in the 

 fields near here, but it is very local. — Florence Mosi.ey, Beaumont Park 

 Museum, Huddersfield, Jan. 2nd, 18S9. 



Coleoptera at Ingleton. — During a few hours spent in the delightful neigh- 

 bourhood of Ingleton during last June, when engaged in arranging an excursion 

 for the Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club, I found the following beetles — the record 

 of which may be useful as a contribution towards the insect fauna of the West 

 Riding of Yorkshire. 



Bembidium monticola 



,, tibiale 



Nebria gyllenhalii 



Homalota currax V Amon S shingle on the bank of the 



Stenus guttula 

 Geodromicus nigrita 

 Trogophlants arcuatus 



Eusphalerum primula \ 



Sericosomus brunneus 



Dolopius maiginatus t» , * 11 . ., 



T,ifs,u™, ,•„„,■,„„,. v. Beaten from shrubs, etc. , in the 



1 elephants nigricans > , ' ' 



7 i -j t I woods. 



,, hcemorrhoidalis .1 



, , pallidus 



Strophosomus coryli J 



Corymbites pectinicomis, on heather. 



Haltica ericeti, abundant on heather on the (so called) Cuckoo Island. 

 — John W. Ellis, 3, Brougham Terrace, Liverpool, Dec. 23rd, 1888. 



Coleoptera in Kingsdale, Mid West Yorkshire. — As a further contri- 

 bution towards the fauna of the West Riding of Yorkshire, I send you the 

 following list (extracted from my diary) of the very few coleoptera I was able to 

 obtain by sweeping during a walk, on September 29th. 1886, from Dent to 

 Ingleton, by way of Kingsdale. 



Pterostichus strenuus. Stenus picipes 



Philonthus decorus Lathriniicitiu unicolor 



Tachinus collaris Liosomus ovatiilns 



Tackyporus tersus Sciaphilus mm icatits 



Stenus impressus Chrysomela staphylcea 



Stenus bninnipes Phcedon tumidulum. 

 Stenus nitidiusculus 

 — John W. Ellis, 3, Brougham Terrace, Liverpool, Dec. 23rd, 1888. 



NOTE—ARA CHNIDA. 



Parasites on the Water Vole. — On the 28th October last, my cat brought in 

 a fine adult male Arvicola amphibia just killed and warm. While handling it a 

 large number of small objects were noticed to leave the skin and wander on the fur 

 as if wishful to escape. A lens showed them to be acari. Some were killed wiih 

 hot water and sent to Dr. C. F. George, of Kirton-in-Lindsey. He considers the 

 mite to be a Lcelaps — possibly Leslaps hilaris Koch, but living specimens are 

 wanted to clear up the question. In the January number of ' Science Gossip ' 

 (p. 6) he describes and figures them as new, under the name of Lcelaps arvolica. 

 A bit of moistened blotting-paper should be put with such things when they are 

 sent. They then often "keep alive a long time.— Jas. Eardley Mason, 

 The Sycamores, Alford, January 2nd, 1889. 



Naturalist, 



