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NOTES—COLEOPTERA. 
Recent Captures of Geodephaga on the Moors of East Yorkshire.— 
During ioe past summer I have frequening yg across the mass of segguiene 
which lies between eral Mg d the Vale of Pickering. lwa se 
collecting-bottle in my pocket, ant eta sa turned my eyes to the sandy << 
i ha 
eyes 
I was traversing. By this means I have met with four very inteneltig species of 
nning on the sand—one preaptn of each :— 
Pierostichus lepidu is fine species has not, to wledge, been 
rr sly taken in Yorkshire. I took it on Sawdon Moor, anne 15th, 1894. 
Pterostichus aethiops Pz. is been taken in the mountainous parts 0: 
shire, not, I believe, in the eastern half of the county; inde 
t to) hardly of a character to lead one to look for such a thoroughly 
Alpine species. I too ecimen in the summer on Hutt uscel Moor. 
Ca ee arvensis Fa ot ie Yorkshire, but seldom recorded. lways 
a spring insect, but I took a fine example on a wet October day, as 
ries devouring a worm, Souk t to the ‘ moor dyke.’ 
Sh aaiing communis Gyll. Itooka et black Amara on the moor in July, bogtn 
looks at first sight is poe curt a, but Canon Fowler thinks it must be a 
riety o 
W. C. Hey, 
Derwent I Hine. West Ayton, York, Jan. 3rd, 1895. 
Monochamm in Y ire. — Mr. Crowther’s interesting note 
(‘ Naturalist,’ Jan. 1895, p. 22) of ag occurrence of MZ. sutor L. at Leeds, reminded 
me of a Monochammus which 1 saw 8 s ago in Doncaster, in the collection 
of Mr. Paterson. My note on ths ae made at the time, is as follows :-— 
‘A fine male JZ, sartor F. i Mr, Paterson’ s 5 collection. Taken by the joiners in 
the Plant works while sa up timber. Circa 1885.’ Its owner was then and, 
to the best of my kno owledge, is still pote laa at ‘the G.N.R. Plant, and being an 
ardent cgi secured the specimen. <p eget he was not a coleopterist, 
and the mn, altho er a remarkably one, was pinned through the 
scatter with x age household _ pin, thus malin it impossible to appreciate the 
chief distinction between J/. sartor F. and M7. sutor L. In ing it AZ. sartor ¥. 
the only thin t as a criterion, i.e., its satciee size, pores an Lake guide, 
I did so with hesitation. Th ch, howe a ken for certain—that 
a Monochammus was taken in yagi g some ten years ; that it is — 
: in years age 
whether it is 1/7, sutor L. or A. ut that more probably it is the latte 
E. G. Bayro ath 20, Eldon Keel Barly, pen 5th, 
onohammus sutor and other Timber-imported feistiie at Hartlepool. 
AReetine to Mr. Crowther’s eae Nata, ~ 1895» P p- 22), of the occur- 
rence of a specimen of Monohammus sutor 
may be of general interest 
to mention that this beetle is Me n0 2 ‘ent of rare nkat 
Hartlepool, hence it is imported 
here every yea is timber se ent to all 
Lancashire, as well as to the collieries in Northumberlan 
trham ; hence 
it is not at all strange to anyone wi s the manner of their introduction 
distribution to read r urrence of rare British s from so m 
different places in the ki - I have also in my cabinet two specimens of the 
much rarer tle ohammus sartor an of _ Z ees e@dilis, 
Saperda scaluris, Pogonocherus ~ peninpetorge Molorchus minor ral species 
not yet recorded as British and no 
named, all taken ese: at "Hartlepool 
J. GARDNER, Hartlepool, 14th January, 1895. 
Ni OTE—H YMENOPTERA é 
Sirex juvencus at Hartlepool.— Another insect very common at Hartlepool 
is Sirex juvencus, which i commoner tha larger r ; the 
numerous records of this insect from all parts of the country during the | w 
whi n Monohammus sutor more especially referred, must 
ed ery reader of our ent 1 mag; 
little doubt whatever that ninety-nine out of every hundred were im an 
fori must in the way ee d in connection with Monohammus sutor. 
t large quantities of pit props are im 
o other ports as well as Harttepoat ed Cardiff.—J. GARDNER, Jan. rath. 
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