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YORKSHIRE COLEOPTERA FN 1901. 



M. LAWSON THOMPSON, F.E.S., 

 Saltburn-ly-the-Sea ; Hon. Secretary Yorkshire Coleoptera Committee. 



The following- is the Report for 1901 of the Yorkshire Coleoptera 

 Committee : — 



Much good work has been done by the Yorkshire Coleoptera 

 Committee during- the past year, and the meetings of the York- 

 shire Naturalists' Union at Brough, Wykeham, Wetherby, and 

 Conisboroug-h were attended by some of its members. An 

 account of the Brough meeting is published in ' The Naturalist' 

 for 1901 (pp. 227-8), and contains Mr. E. G. Bayford's list of 

 30 species taken on that occasion. Mr. Bayford also attended 

 the Wykeham meeting-, spending the week-end there. His list 

 is published in Mr. J. Waddington's account of the excursion 

 (' The Naturalist ' for 1901, pp. 296-7), and consists of 48 species. 

 Of these Omosiphora limbata F. and *Hylastes ater Payk. are of 

 particular interest. At Wetherby I met with 47 species, of which 

 two — Microglossa pulla Gyll. and Apion spencei Kirby — are not 

 included in Mr. F. A. Lees' account of the meeting ('The 

 Naturalist' for 1901, pp. 329-30), having only recently been 

 determined. The coleopterists present at the Conisborough 

 meeting were Messrs E. G. Bayford and H. Ostheide, who 

 reported finding 16 species near Conisborough ('The Naturalist' 

 for 1902, p. 120). Of these Bibloporus bicolor Denny is worthy 

 of note. Upper Teesdale has also been visited with very 

 interesting results, as this district contains the highest land in 

 the county. 



With regard to observatipns on this subject already pub- 

 lished I must refer Yorkshire coleopterists to the list of 

 coleoptera by Messrs. T. Stainforth and H. E. Johnson in the 

 Transactions of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club for 



1901 (Vol. I., No. IV., pp. 239-243). It enumerates 148 species 

 taken in the neighbourhood of Hull and on the foreshore of the 

 Humber. Many are of extreme interest owing to the maritime 

 locality in which they are found. A previous list, which should 

 also be consulted, was published by the late Mr. C. W. Russell 

 in the Transactions for 1900 (Vol. I., No. III., pp. 129-134). 



The following notes from various parts of the county have 

 been selected from material at my disposal and certain observa- 

 tions of my own— all referring to the year 1901. Throughout 



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