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SOME INGLEBOROUGH COLEOPTERA. 



J. W. CARTER, 



Entomological Kcco7-der, Bradford Nat7iralists Society, etc. 



During two ascents of Ingleborough — one on the nth of April, 

 1884, in company with Mr. H. T. Soppitt, of Bradford, and Mr. J. A. 

 Butterfield of Lewisham, and again on April 3rd, 1885, also in 

 company with Mr. Soppitt — several species of coleoptera, some of 

 exceptional interest, were collected, the following list of which may 

 be of interest to some of the readers of The Naturalist. 



Those marked * are new county records. 

 Carabus arvensis F. One on the side of Ingleborough at an 

 elevation of about 2,000 ft., April 1884 (J.A.B. and H.T.S.). 

 Only once previously taken in the county, viz., at Strensall 

 Common (Ent. Trans. Y. N. U.). 

 Notiophilus aquaticus L. In boggy ground at the foot of Ingle- 

 borough, April 1885. A blue-black variety occurred with the 

 type. 



Notiophilus palustris Duft. One at the base of Ingleborough, 

 April 1885. This and the preceding species are new to the 

 north-west portion of the county. 



Notiophilus biguttatus F. Common about Ingleborough and 

 the neighbourhood, 1884 and 1885. 



Nebria gyllenhalii Sch. Very abundant on the summit of Ingle- 

 borough, April 1884. Amongst them were three or four 

 examples with the elytra ' entirely rust-red,' a form mentioned 

 by the Rev. Canon Fowler in his admirable work on ' British 

 Coleoptera.' 



Clivina fossor L. At the base of Ingleborough, 1885. 



*Patrobus assimilis Chaud. In great abundance on the summit 

 of Ingleborough, April 1884. I think that everyone who has 

 examined large numbers of this form from varying altitudes 

 cannot but agree with Mr. Fowler in regarding it as ' merely a 

 highland variety ' of P. excavatiis Payk. I have taken it at an 

 elevation of from 900 to above 2,000 ft., those taken at the 

 highest point being the most pronounced assimi/is, while at 

 lower elevations, forms not agreeing exactly with either, but 

 partaking of the characters of both, are often met with. 



Pterostichus nigrita V. Common in the neighbourhood of 

 Ingleborough, 1884 and 1885. 



Aug. 1888. . 



