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SNAINTON BRICK-PONDS AND THEIR BEETLES. 
Rev. W. C. HEY, M.A., 
Derwent House, West Ayton, York. 
NeEAsR Snainton Station, on the Be bbeoagh and Pickering 
Branch Line, lie two ponds. One of them is of considerable 
size, and was formerly, I am told, quite extensive. These 
ponds clearly occupy the site of an old brickfield. They have 
now been converted into a receptacle for the village refuse, and 
will in time be extinguished like too many similar pieces of 
water. I have paid these ponds a couple of visits this spring, 
and found them not uninteresting to the coleopterist. I append 
a list of the beetles I collected in the water and on the banks. 
Bembidium biguttatum F. 
Haliplus obliquus Er. 
Haliplus flavicollis Sturm. 
Haliplus ruficollis DeG, 
Laccophilus obscurus Panz. 
hipaa ovatus L. This species, which is decidedly local 
N.E. Yorkshire, swarmed. 
SEE versicolor Schall. Rather plentiful. I have not 
found this in any other locality in this district. 
Ceelambus inzxqualis F. 
Coelambus impressopunctatus Schall. One example. This 
is a rare insect in Yorkshire. 
Deronectes assimilis Payk. About half-a-dozen examples of 
this somewhat local species. 
Deronectes depressus Fab. 
Hydroporus pictus F. in great numbers. 
Gyrinus marinus Gyll. — 
Laccobius alutaceus Thoms. In great numbers. 
Laccobius bipunctatus F. Equally abundant with the last. 
Hydrena riparia Kug. 
Bagous alismatis Marsh. Very abundant. 
Poophagus sisympbrii F. 
he pond also yielded Limnea stagnalis, which is not a 
common shell in this district. 
sth July 1808. 
“Naturalist. 
