350 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION AT COXWOLD AND BYLAND. 
was obtained” on some: nettles, together with Chrysomela staphylea. 
The stone-heaps by the road-side; as. usual, well repaid the 
trouble of investigation, Anchomenus oblongus and A. dorsalis, 
Pterostichus vulgaris, P. madidus, Bembidium monticola, Ane 
parumpunctatus and Philonthus marginatus being found there, whilst 
the pretty and lively little Bemdbidium quadrimaculatum was 
unusually common. Séfones lineatus, Apion eneum, A. violaceum, 
Phedon cochtearia, P. tumidulus, and a variety of Halyzia 22-punctata, 
only showing 20 spots (one on each elytron being confluent with an 
adjacent spot), were obtained by sweeping the long grass, etc., by 
the road-side, between Coxwold and Byland Abbey. Under a stone 
by the side of ‘Long Beck,’ Wotiophilus aquaticus was found, but 
the beck itself was too swift for any of the ordinary aquatic 
beetles. By the stone wall at Byland, Auchomenus dorsalis, Calathus 
melanocephalus and Loricera pilicornis were found. 
the grounds of Byland Abbey were found Xantholinus 
glabratus and Medon brunneus. Dung-beetles, in the fields 
surrounding the Abbey, were the next to attract attention, a little 
heap of mould, by some cow-dung, showing where the common 
Dor-beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius) had made its burrow. Digging it 
out proved an easy task, as owing to the stony nature of the ground, 
the hole was not more than four inches deep. Aphodius ater, 
A. fimetarius, A. inquinatus, Philonthus eneus, Spheridium scara- 
beoides and S. bipustulatum were also found in dung, the PAilonthus 
being, perhaps, one of the swiftest beetles we have, whilst the 
Spheridium has a most peculiar waddling kind of walk. On the 
road-side between Byland and Wass was a specimen of Geotrupes 
stercorarius, blinded by the daylight and vainly endeavouring to 
climb a small shrub. How it had got there at that time of the day 
must be left to the imagination, for it is a nocturnal beetle. 
Leaving Wass to the right hand and going up the Hambleton 
hills, a very swift little beck yielded several Dianoiis caerulescens, 
clinging to the under side of some moss-covered stones, although 
the stream was very rapid indeed. This stream empties itself 
into a pond at the bottom of the hill, but the pond hardly 
repaid the trouble of searching; Agabus guttatus, Deronectes 
depressus, Llybius fuliginosus and Haliplus rujficollis being all that 
were found there. Afton wneum and the blue variety of Ha/tica 
Pusilla were obtained by sweeping near the pond. In the wood 
on the left-hand side, was a rabbit, freshly killed, probably by 
a stoat, as it had no other marks on it besides a hole at the 
back of the neck, through which its slayer had doubtless sucked 
its blood. In the cavity thus made, although the body was scarcely 
“Naturalist 
