224 SOME ADDITIONS, ETC., TO THE COLEOPTERA 



Notes on some Additions, etc., to the Coleoptera of the 

 Northumberland and Durham District. By Richard 

 S. Bagnall, F.E.S. 



Read March 14, 1905. 



It is more than thirty years since Mr. Bold's Catalogue of 

 our beetle-fauna was published in these Transactions, and 

 since then little locally seems to have been done in that 

 study. 



As this is the case the following notes may be interesting, 

 and, however trivial many may appear, will, I think, prove 

 useful in the compilation of a new and revised local list. 



These notes do not pretend to be in any sense complete, 

 but rather a few records and observations, which, at Mr. Gill's 

 request, I have put together in the form of a short paper, 

 hoping by so doing to stimulate a more active and local 

 interest in this engrossing branch of Entomology. 



Thirteen species (eleven imported) and one variety herein 

 noted have but recently been, or will shortly be, intro- 

 duced to the British Catalogue, and such are marked 

 with a double asterisk (**) ; several species and varieties 

 not mentioned by Bold in his local list (Nat. Hist. Trans, 

 of Northumberland and Durham, vol. iv., part i., 187 1) 

 and therefore regarded as new to the two counties, are 

 marked with a single asterisk (*), whilst those against which 

 I have placed a dagger (f) have not been hitherto, so far as 

 I am aware, recorded from the county of Durham. The 

 numbers in front of each name are those used in the latest 

 British Catalogue, and are invaluable for reference (^). 



Of course several of these species, such as ** Tetropium 

 castaneum, * Callidium violaceum, * C. variabile, f Clytus 

 arciiatus, * Monohammus sartor, f M. sutor, ** M. tittilator, 

 \ Acatithocinus cedilis, * Bruchus pisi, * Luc anus cervus, in 

 being imported, bear little faunistic value, but are interesting 



(1) Catalogue of British Coleoptera, by T. Hudson Beare, B.Sc, 

 F.R.S.E., F.E.S. , and H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe, F.Z.S., F.E.S., March, 

 1904. 



