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NOTES on COLEOPTERA. 



Adimonia tanaceti near Louth, Lincolnshire. A few days ago 

 Mr. C. S. Carter took three specimens of Adimonia tanaceti at Rodhill, in 

 the parish of Gouleeby. It has hitherto been supposed that the range of 

 this beetle in this district was confined to a meadow, known as the Greasy- 

 held, adjoining Maltbv W ood. R. W. GQULDING, Louth, 6th Nov. 1900. 



Alianta incana in Yorkshire: An Addition to the List of 

 Yorkshire Coleoptera. When the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union visited 

 Askham Bog 1 , York, on 4th June 1900, I took an Alianta from the stems of 

 lords in that rich locality. A short time ago, Mr. E. A. Newbery, of 

 London, kindly examined this inseet and pronounced it Alianta {Homalota) 

 incana Er. According- to Fowler (British Coleoptera, Vol. 2, p. 64) this 

 local species had not been previously found in the North of England. 



A second Yorkshire locality must also be added, 'asA. incana is contained 

 in a .MS. list of Beetles met with in the neighbourhood of Scarborough 

 by the late Robert Lawson, and at present in my hands. — M. LAWSON 

 Thompson. 35, Levon Street, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, 17th April 1901. 



NOTES on MAMMALIA. 



Albino Hare near Horncastle. -A white Hare (Lepus europaus) with 

 pink eyes has been recently shot in Fulsby Wood, by the keeper of Su- 

 fi. M. 1 law Icy, of Tumby Lawn, near Horncastle. -j' CONWAY WALTER, 

 Lang-ton Rectory, Horncastle, 1 6th October 1900. 



Seal in the Tees. A Seal (P/ioca vituliria) was shot in the River 

 Tees on the 28th January. It measured 3 feet 9 inches in length, and was 

 said to weigh about 8 stones. The colour was silvery grey, with a few 

 black spots" on the back. -R. LOFTHOUSE, The Croft, Linthorpe, Middles- 

 brough, 26th February 1901. 



Badger in County Durham. — In the month of August, a year or two 

 ago, a voting Badger {Meles meles) was caught in a young fir plantation, 

 called the Black Banks, in the Browney Valley, between the hamlets of 

 East and West Butsfield and the village of Satley, in the county of Durham. 

 The animal was caught alive, unhurt, and was afterwards sold by the person 

 who captured it. — J. W. Fawcett, Satley, Darlington, 22nd March 1901. 



The Squirrels of Roundhay Park, Leeds. It can hardly be the 

 custom, rather the exception proving the rule negative, for this feral 

 Punchinello (Sciurus vulgaris) to hiemate, I fancy ; as I had the pleasure of 

 glimpsing two in the big beeches adjacent to the fish-hatchery and upper 

 lake verv recently ; and late in November, walking with a young cousin, in 

 • the Gorge ' we saw one on the path ahead skipping to cover in a leisurely, 

 comical, catch-me-if-you-can sort of way. Is this explained by the unusually 

 open season ? The beech-mast in the Park does not ripen its prism-fruit 

 most years. — F. A. Lees, Roundhay Road, Leeds, 14th February 1901. 



North-VVest Lindsey Mammalia Notes.- The late David Hopkins, 

 who farmed Howsham Barf from 1845 to 1870. was a naturalist in a simple 

 way, and loved the birds and beasts to be found on or around his holding. 

 He left the following stuffed specimens behind him ; they are now in the 

 possession of his daughters at Brigg-, having been moved just a year ago 

 from this parish : — 



A Badger (Meles meles) from Searby, close by. One has been killed on 

 the railway line in this parish since his time, and is now in the possession of 

 Mr. John Sanderson, of Howsham. 



A Squirrel {Sciurus vulgaris) killed by a sharp cut of his whip as- it was 

 running up a tree. A Stoat (Puturius erniinetis). 



As these specimens have been removed from this parish it is as well to 

 put them on record. — E. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock, Cadney, Brigg, 

 15th May 1900. 



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