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YORKSHIRE COLEOPTERA IN 1903. 



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



Hon. Secretary Yorkshire Coleoptera Committee. 



The continuation throug"hout the season 1903 of weather most 

 unfavourable for collecting has left coleopterists with but little to 

 report. Here and there, however, a few really interesting- insects 

 have been met with, as the list g-iven below will show. The 

 attendance of members of the committee at the meetings of the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union was a record one, especially at 

 Filey, where the workers in this branch of entomology were 

 never before so well represented. Sixty-five species of coleoptera 

 were met with on this occasion (see 'The Naturalist' for 1903, 

 p. 246). At the Goathland meeting- Mr. H. Ostheide and 

 I found this upland district a g-ood one for beetles, and with the 

 assistance of Mr. J. T. Sewell sixty-six were noted, one of 

 them — Doiiacia discolor — being" new to the county (see ' The 

 Naturalist' for 1903, p. 302). Nothing- was done at the Cow- 

 thorpe meeting-, the day being- too wet. At Bowes Mr. A. G. 

 Robertshaw found a few common beetles ('The Naturalist' for 

 1903, p. 355), whilst Messrs. E. G. Bayford and others reported 

 meeting- w^ith eig-ht species at Wharncliffe, including- Crypto- 

 phagiis lycoperdi Naturalist' for 1903, p. 399). 



Mr. H. H. Corbett has again been working- in the neig-h- 

 bourhood of Doncaster, and Mr. J. W. Carter has sent some 

 interesting- notes on his observations in the Bradford district. 



To the 'Transactions of the Hull Scientific and Field 

 Naturalists' Club' for the year 1903 (Vol. HI., No. i), Messrs. 

 T. Stainforth and H. E. Johnson have contributed a 'Third List 

 of East Yorkshire Coleoptera.' In this a number of scattered 

 records of localities for about two hundred species found in this 

 part of the county have been broug-ht together. 



Mr. J. W. Carter, F.E.S., has published in 'The Naturalist' 

 for May of the present year (pp. 148-150) an account of the 

 observations made by himself and others on some Adephaga. 

 It is entitled 'Some Yorkshire Coleoptera — (Adephaga),' and 

 enumerates thirty species, with notes, met with chiefly on moor- 

 land tracts in the neighbourhood of Bradford. 



The following notes are from information kindly furnished 

 by members of the committee for this report. The species 

 marked with an asterisk have not, so far as I can learn, been 

 previously recorded for Yorkshire. H.H.C. =H. H. Corbett; 

 J.W.C. -J. W. Carter; M.L.T. -M. L. Thompson. 

 Anchomenus ericeti Panz. Hatfield Chace (H.H.G.). 

 Agabus uliginosus L. Hatfield Chace (H.H.C). 

 1904 August I. 



