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NOTES on COLEOPTERA. 

 Habrocerus capillaricornis near Carlisle.— On 2nd March last, while 

 working- flood refuse for Coleoptera on the Eden at Wetheral, I took eight 

 specimens of this beetle. They were all taken from one heap of refuse. 

 According- to Fowler's ' British Coleoptera ' this species has not been 

 recorded from further north than Scarboroug-h. — Jas. Murray, ii, Close 

 Street, Carlisle, 9th June 1902. 



Agabus congener, etc., in Upper Teesdale.— During an early visit to 

 Upper Teesdale, on the 25th April, I took a specimen of Agabus congener 

 Payk. in a mossy pool on the slope of Mickle Fell. An old and somewhat 

 doubtful Askham Bog- record appears to be all that is known of this 

 northern or subalpine species as a Yorkshire insect. 



In the same pool were numbers of Hydropoms gyllenhali Schiodt., 

 a common moorland water-beetle in the northern portion of the county. — 

 M. Lavvson Thompson, 35, Leven Street, Saltburn-by-the Sea, 22nd May 

 1902. 



Chlaenius vestitus at Bridlington Quay.— Canon Fowler says of 

 C. vestitus Payk. ' not recorded from the north of England,' but in hunting 

 up records for the Yorkshire List I found that Archdeacon Hey had 

 recorded in his diary taking- it at Clifton, near York, in 1842, and that 

 Mr. E. A. Waterhouse had met with it at Studley. The Wentbridge record 

 is perhaps doubtful. However, no one seems to have taken it either on the 

 Yorkshire coast or in the south-eastern district of the county, so that I felt 

 much pleasure in capturing- eight specimens of this conspicuous and 

 beautiful beetle on the cliffs midway between Bridlington Quay and 

 Sewerby. I found the insects running- upon wet slopes of gravel and boulder 

 clay. The species has a wide distribution, for the last time I saw it was 

 near Cordova, in Spain, where, on turning- over a big- stone, I found it in 

 company with a yet finer (but non-British) species, Chlcenius velutinus 

 Duftschm., and four young- snakes ! Insect-hunting- in England is, perhaps 

 fortunately, not often accompanied with such lively incidents. — W. C. Hey, 

 West Ayton, Yorkshire, 9th July 1902. 



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NORTHERN NOTES and NEWS. 



Hull Museum Publications, No. 7, contains a paper on ' East Riding 

 Geology,' by the Curator, recently read to the Hull Geological Society, 

 as well as a paper on ' Old Hull Pottery.' These publications are descrip- 

 tive of various objects in the Museum, and are sold at one penny each. 



Captain Colbeck, of Hull, who has had much experience in the Antarctic 

 Seas, and was on the staff of the ' Southern Cross ' expedition, sailed 

 earlv in July in charge of the 'Morning-,' which will act as tender for the 

 ' Discovery,' now in the Antarctic. Several of the crew are also Hull men. 



1 The Alg-a-Flora of Yorkshire,' by W. West and G. S. West, which lias 

 been issued to the members of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union in sections, 

 as Transactions, is now complete, and can be obtained, suitably bound, 

 from the Honorary Secretaries of the Union at Leeds. The price is six 

 shilling-s. 



The Report of the British Association, Glasgow meeting, has been 

 published, and contains several items of interest to Yorkshire naturalists, 

 though they principally occur in Section C. In addition to abstracts oi 

 papers on Yorkshire Geology, the volume contains reports of" the Com- 

 mittees on Erratic Blocks, Geological Photographs, and Life Zones in the 

 British Carboniferous Rocks; "in all of which Yorkshire geology and 

 g-eologists play an important part. 



1Q02 August 1. 



