22 MONOCHAMMUS SUTOR IN YORKSHIRE, 
J. STANLEY TUTE. ihe rk Mid W. 
Microscopic Fauna and Flora of Markington, Mid-Wes' 
ez 
orkshire 
diffluens, Actinophrys viridis, Arcella vulgaris, A. oie “Dileptus 
folium, Stentor polymorphus, Vorticella microstoma, Ophrydium versatile, 
asses aoe Semmes Vaginicola it Gergen , Epistylis anastatica, Loxodes 
burs. vramecium aurelia, and Peridinium cinctum enumerated, with 
asides. | Meh ieee 1890, p pp. 151-152. 
— RoBertT V Linc. N. 
de: Putyion found | at Cleethorpes in 1875 1879, and 1882 [with 
ing the torma of Foraminifera 
most Pla et met with]. Nat., Jan. 1892, p 
CHA his H. sorte Cheshire. 
Micr copical Notes [on the Cheshire side of Mersey, 25th May; 
Vorticella nebialiverel, Young Nat., Sep. 1889, p. 186. 
NOTE—COLEOPTERA. 
onoch: Yorkshire.—A male specimen of this hand- 
beetle, which had Theed cong aa in the workshop of one - as sacral 
some 
merchants in Le given August 14th, this yea kept 
alive for over a mo am Mine feeding t on oa canal cubes of cabbage, cut | ‘rom then midrib 
of the leaf, which enabled me t ept 
it under a large bell-glass, up the sides of which it could travel ‘with casts falling 
only when it got too far on the rounded dome of its prison. By some accident 
it, and one witnessed, when it was not asleep or feeding, a constant but unsuccess- 
ful attempt, on its part, to climb the bell- sate Be substituting the middle foot for 
the oecsrent sgn foot. It fed well, rated — Pa 8 and died apparently 
becau _ its period of li erfect insect was short. When feedin 
the long sachin i e tips— ~enaly four inches apart—were 
in constant sacihoe: though the cube of cabbage on which it fed was more than an 
inch away from them. When walking on my hand it sometimes paused to bite it. 
on the middle and posterior pairs. e weig the insect, the shifting of its 
equilibrium, and the — : kagg sa pads of the right mid- foot effectively, 
pial pro’ e mus could not ascend a glassy 
X: nin 
them, as the insect aa, sufficiently valuable to preserve entire, I made out 
t. S 
arply gly curved 
joint was dee eeply ilobed, its distal portions somewhat enwrapped and supported 
the iu rs joi pa 
ily and that each of these an average of eight conical spines, there must 
have been over mee i spines on the feet of the beetle I was examining. Small 
need to wonder at the ease with which it went up a wall o glass. Aso er As ou 
half-a-dozen records of the occurrence of this beetle are known in Britai 
far as I can learn none for Yorkshire, this record rank note may Bei o 
interest to coleopterists. HENRY CROWTHER, F.R.M.S., The Museum eed, 
November 19th, 1894. 
Naturalist, 
