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Coleoptera. — The Coleoptera Committee will be officially represented 
by Mr. M. L. Thompson. 
The following notes ha\'e been supplied by Messrs. M. L. Thompson and 
G. B. Walsh, B.Sc. : — The district has always been an interesting one to the 
Coleopterist, especially Arnclilfe Wood, Glaisdale, in which a single specimen 
o( the very TSLve A gabus tarsatiis {melanarhis) was found 20 years ago Although 
August is late for most of the moorland beetles, the following may be obtained 
by sifting grass tufts and reeds in damp places : — Bradycellus similis, B. cognatus, 
B. collaris, Calathus micropterus, Olisthopus rotiindatus, Quedtus hoops and Othius 
myrmecophilus. Sweeping heather gives Haltica ericeti, H . montana, Strophosomus 
lateralis and Ceuthorrhynchus encce. Under stones in the ri\'er bed occur Bembidium 
decorum, Platamhus maculatus (abundant and very variable), Hdophorus arvernicus, 
Dianous carulescens, Stenus guttula and Platystethus arenarius. Sifting beech leaves 
in a damp spot in the gorge of the river just below the village has yielded abund- 
ance of Quedius fumatus, Q. nigriceps, Q. picipes and Q. lateralis. Other beetles 
recorded for Glaisdale are Cicindela campest-ris, Anthophagiis testaceus, Leiopus 
nebiilostts, Nebria gyllenhali, Serica brunnea, Hydroporus incognitus, H. nigrita, 
H. memnonhis, Gyrophcena minima, and Phadon ayynoracics. In the neighbourhood 
of Sleights, Stomis piimicatus, Amara communis, Donacia discolor, Aspidiphorus 
orbiculatus and Strophosomus retusus have been met with. 
ARACHNIDA. — The Arachnida Committee will be officially represented. 
Mr. W. Falconer writes : — The woods, dales and moors of North-East York- 
shire have yielded in the past several rare and welcome additions to the county 
list, and probably if the basin of the Esk were investigated more thoroughly than 
has been done up to the present a similar result might be recorded. Chiracan- 
thium carnifex Fabr. and Mengea scopigera Grube, which are apparently local 
in the county, have been taken on the Wliitby Moors, and the only Yorkshire 
examples of Theridion simile, C. L. Koch [2 females) occurred on furze in 1906 
near Goathland Station. 
PROGRAMME OF MEETINGS on Monday, August 3pd: 
4-0 p.m.. Meat Tea, 1/G each. ) 
4- 45 p.m.. Sectional Meetings. - At Sleights Hall. 
5- 0 p.m.. General Meeting. 
N.B. — Members are particularly requested to note that Tea will only be 
provided for those who write Mrs. Rennison ordering same at least two days 
beforehand, and if ordered it must be paid for if not taken. 
The Chair will be taken by the President of the Union. 
Train Service. 
Access to Sleights and Glaisdale is by York, Malton, Pickering and Gros- 
mont ; by the Bridlington, Scarboro' and Whitby coast line ; or by Northallerton, 
Picton and Whitby route. 
The following may be a guide, but members must look up their own time 
tables, as Bank Holiday alterations are common : — 
Leeds to Sleights by Picton leave 5-0 a.m. 1-52 p.m. 3-38 p.m. 5-40 p.m. 
Due Sleight^ 9-23 a.m. 6-4 p.m. 7-86 p.m. 10-8 p.m. 
York, Pickering, Sleights leave 5-43 a.m. 3-30 p.m. 6-12 p.m. 6-55 p.m. 
Whitby. 
Due Sleights 8-4 a.m. 5-32 p.m.* 8-2 p.m. 8-53 p.m. 
A B A B C 
Hull to Whitby leave .5-40 a.m. 6-50 a.m. 4-50 p.m. 5-5 p.m. 6-5 p.m. 
Due Whitby 9-51 a.m. 10-51 a.m. 7-50 p.m. 8-10 p.m. 9-4 p.m. 
Note.— Sleights is 3 miles from Whitby, and there are numerous trains both ways. 
* Fridays and Saturdays only. A By coast. B By Market Weighton and York. C Via Driffield. 
Departure Trains. 
For Hull and Whitby Leave Sleights 6-4 p.m. and 6-22 p.m. 
For Stockton and Middlesbro' 5-45^ p.m. and 8-5 p.m. 
For Pickering, Malton, York and Leeds ... ,, 7-17.p.m. and 9-18 p.m. 
NOTICES. 
The next Excursion of the Union will be to Don- 
caster, on Saturday, 19th September. 
In order that an early account of the excursion may appear in the 
"Naturalist," notes and reports should be forwarded before August 14th, to 
W. E. L. Wattam, 30 Towngate, Newsome, Huddersfield. 
