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Laccobius alutaceus. Filey, in company with the foregoing. 
Laccobius bipunctatus. Very common in ponds at Ayton. 
Limnebius truncatellus. In the river at Ayton and in ponds 
Limnebius nitidus. Puddle at Cornelian Bay. 
Helophorus nubilus. Filey Cliffs. 
Helophorus aquaticus. Common and general. 
Helophorus brevipalpis. Common and general. 
Helophorus arvernicus. In the river Derwent in Forge Valley. 
Henicocerus exsculptus. Under stones in the river at Ayton. 
Scarce. 
Ochthebius pygmzus. Cornelian Bay, and at East Ayton. 
Ochthebius bicolon. With the foregoing. 
Hydrzna palustris. As this species has always been considered 
peculiar to stagnant water, I was much surprised at taking 
a specimen under a stone at the mill-dam at Ayton. Hitherto 
are i was the only locality known for this rare insect in 
the Nor 
oo seecis Of this almost equally rare oe 
ook one example in the river at West Ayton in Apri 
hee gracilis. The commonest species of the genus in this 
district. I have taken it: at el aaaase End, Lowdales, and Ayton. 
Cyclonotum orbiculare. Pool near White Nab. 
This list contains fiye species not (to my knowledge) hitherto 
recorded for Yorkshire, viz., Hydroporus discretus, Laccobius alutaceus, 
Lelophorus arvernicus, Hydrena angustata, and Ochthebius bicolon. 
June 22nd, 1894. 
THE BIRDS OF WEST CHESHIRE. 
Birds of West Cheshire, Denbi ghshire, | and Flintshire: | Being a List of 
Species orate in the District of the Chester | Society of Natural 
Science. | — | By W. Henry Dost, M.B., M.R.C.S., | Memberofthe British 
Ornithologists’ Hola |... Proceedings of the Chester Society of Natural 
Science and Literature, Part 4, 1893, pp. 281-351, and map 
Tue writer of this excellent list, of which a reprint (which it is 
Satisfactory to know has not been re-paged, as it is the habit of 
many philistine printers to do when not watched) from the Chester 
Society's proceedings lies before us, is to be warmly congratulated 
n its production. It adds another link to the completion of the 
chain of county avifaunas for our northern area, of which, middle 
and southern Lincolnshire and eastern Cheshire are the only 
Portions that still remain without their lists of birds. The district 
July 1894. 
