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XERIS SPECTRUM AT LEEDS: 



AN ADDITION TO THE BRITISH LIST OF HYMENOPTERA. 



W. DENISON ROEBUCK, F.L.S. 



While g-etting together material for the Hst of Yorkshire 

 H3'menoptera, to be very shortly published in the first volume 

 of the Victoria History of the County, I had some specimens 

 sent me for names by Mr. W. E. L. Wattam, and I am indebted 

 to the Rev. F. D. Morice, of Woking, for identifying one of 

 them, which is Xcr/s spec f rum (L.), ^, one of the family 

 Siricidffi. 



Mr. Wattam informs me that it was captured by a friend of 

 his in May 1905, in the workroom of the Yost Typewriter Co., 

 in Leeds. 



Mr; Morice says he does not know whether it has ever been 

 recorded from Britain ; that it might no doubt turn up anywhere 

 in imported timber, and that it may be indigenous, but he should 

 doubt its being so. 



It is always a difficulty to state the real home of these wood- 

 feeding Sirices, and it might be just as well entitled to a place in 

 the British list as in that of other countries from which it is 

 placed on record. Mr. Morice states that W. F. Kirby (Brit. 

 Mus. Cat.) g-ives x)nly 'Munich, Transbaikal, Algeria' as 

 localities, that Konow localizes it for ' Europa,' Andre for 

 Germany, and Thomson gives it as a Scandinavian form, 

 occurring sparsely in pine woods. 



COLEOPTERA 

 Broscus cephalotes L. etc. near Doncaster. — My atten- 

 tion was called a short time ago, by Mr. Tonkinson of this town, 

 to the fact that this maritime species was to be found in a sandy 

 lane about two miles east of Doncaster. On visiting the spot 

 I found the insect fairly common. It has also recently been 

 taken by Mr. Tonkinson at Edenthorpe, and by myself at 

 Finningley. It would therefore appear to be widely dis- 

 tributed and well established in the district. Other Geodephaga 

 taken in the same lane as Broscus, are Cychrus rostratus, 

 Carabus neinoralis, C. inonilis, Xcbria brcvi'collis, Harpalus 

 ceneus, H. tardus, H. latus, H. ruficornis, Ptristichus madidus, 

 PL uiger, Amara fulva, A. apricaria, A. tibialis, A. plebia, 

 Calathus cistcloides, C flav'ipes, C. nielanocephalus, Pristonycha 

 terricola, Aiichoinenus dors(dis, Treclius miuutus, and Lebia 

 chlorocephala. — H. H. Corbett, Doncaster, June i6th, 1906. 



1906 July I. 



