A LIST OF 

 THE COLEOPTERA OF YORKSHIHE, 



By the Rev. W. C. HEY, M.A., 



Vicar of St. Olave's, York ; Vice-President of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 



Union ; Honorary Curator in Entomology to the Yorkshire 



Philosophical Society. 



It is with much diffidence that I have undertaken to write a Hst 

 of the Coleoptera of this county, and I do so more from the 

 consideration that everything must have a beginning, than 

 because I can hope to produce anything at all complete. Some 

 districts (as the records will show), have been thoroughly 

 investigated by first-rate Coleopterists ; others are almost 

 unknown ; and though it is not perhaps likely that a very large 

 number of species will be added to the list now published (except 

 in the case of the more obscure genera), there can be no doubt 

 that localities, even for many of the scarcer species, will be 

 largely multiplied. On the other hand, extended cultivation 

 and extended building operations are hastening the extinction of 

 not a few species included in the list, especially among the 

 Hydradephaga. 



In a county of such extent and of such varied character as 

 Yorkshire, I thought it imperative to classify the records of 

 captures under the heads of districts. However, not to make 

 the list too lengthy, or (as some might think) needlessly 

 elaborate, I have contented myself with adopting that simple 

 division into five districts in accordance with which the 

 excursions of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union are arranged, 

 viz : — 



1. South East. — The Wolds and Holderness. 



2. North East. — The Cleveland Hills and Upper Vale of 



Derwent ; including also such portion of the Vale of 

 Mowbray as lies east of the rivers Wiske and Swale. 



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