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THE 
YORKSHIRE COLEOPTERA COMMITTEE. 
M. L. THOMPSON, 
Hon. Secretary for the Yorkshire ama Committee, 
Diamond Street, Saltburn-by- the- 
SOME years ago the Rev. W. ( C. Vey. M.A., commenced the 
work of compiling a List of Yorkshire Coleoptera, and the first 
instalment was published in the Transactions of the Yorkshire 
Naturalists’ Union in 1886. Three other parts appeared in 
duty shall be to prepare the continuation of the list under his 
direction as chairman. 
n behalf of the committee I am at present engaged in 
collecting local record-lists for the next group to be dealt with 
—the Clavicornia—and arranging the several localities for the 
Yorkshire species, so that the members may have submitted to 
them for consideration and scrutiny a mass of observations 
presenting something like order. We purpose following the 
arrangement and nomenclature contained in Canon Fowler’s 
recent and admirable work of five volumes, ‘The Coleoptera of 
the British Islands.’ The catalogue which the student will find 
as that in which this arrangement is most closely followed is 
the one compiled by Dr. Sharp and Canon Fowler in 1893, an 
published by Messrs. L. Reeve & Co., London. 
The Clavicornia contain many beetles familiar to ordinary 
observation in insect-life, and as only small portions of the 
county have been systematically scventraned by good 
coleopterists, I venture to direct the attention of Yorkshire 
entomologists to a field of research in which much good work 
can yet be done. I will briefly mention just some of the genera 
which are to make up the next part of our List. Among the 
first are Agathidium, Anisotoma, Hydnobius, and Colon, insects 
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