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author conjectures, and with some probability, that in addition to the 

 sepulchral character of these barrows, there is another and no less inter- 

 esting light in which they are to be viewed, viz. as parts of an amazing 

 system of vigilance and communication, in fact a species of telegraph ex- 

 tending over extensive districts. We are informed by Caesar, that the 

 Gauls, from whom the Britons descended, conveyed intelligence with 

 wonderful celerity through the fields and cantons by shouting with all their 

 might (De Bell. Gal. lib. 7, ch. 3), and the distance of 400 or 500 yards 

 which intervenes between the barrows upon this coast appears well calcu- 

 lated for a telegraphic communication of this kind; and they are uniformly 

 placed within sight of each other. I offer these remarks to the Club on 

 the subject of Tumuli, with the view of directing the attention of its an- 

 tiquarian members to this curious and interesting department of British 

 antiquities, and particularly for the purpose of endeavouring to ascertain 

 the probable date and period of such places and modes of sepulture. 



Contributions to the Entomology of Berwickshire. By P. J. SELBY, 

 Esq. and Dr JOHNSTON. 



Allanton, May 6. 1835. 

 COLEOPTERA. 



Cicindela campestris. 

 Clivina Fossor. 



collaris. 



Helobia nivalis. 



(H. Gyllenhallii, Ent. Edin.) 

 Anchomenus prasinus. 



albipes. 



Agonum parumpunctatum. 

 Pcecilus cupreus. 



rufifemoratus. 



versicolor. 

 Stomis pumicatus. 

 Amara familiaris. 

 Bradytus ferruginous. 

 Harpalus ruficprnis. 

 Trechus collaris. 



(T. fulvus, Ent. Edin.) 



' minutus. 

 Tachys binotatus. 



immunis. 

 Peryphus littoralis. 



' cnemerythnis. 

 (P. tibialis, Ent. Edin.) 

 Lopha 4-gutta(a. 

 Tachypus properans. 

 . striatus. 



Bcmbidium paludosum. 

 flavipes. 

 Notiophilus striatus , Waterh. 

 Hydroporus alpinus. 

 Georyssus pygmceus. 

 Elmis Volkmari. 

 . variabilis. 



Elmis rugosus. 

 Enicocerus viridiaeneus. 



Gibsoni. 



Oiceoptoma rugosa. 

 Meligethes seneus, Ent. Edin. 



pedicularius. 



Micropeplus porcatus. 

 Byrrhus dorsalis. 

 Cataphagus obscurus. 



lineatus. 



Hypnoidus riparius. 



4-pustulatus. 



Hylurgus piniperda. 

 Nedyus assimilis. 



(Ceutorhynchus assimilis, Ent. 



Edin.) 

 Mcrionus obscurus. 



(Barvnotus obs. Ent. Edin.) 

 Sitona tibialis. 

 Nemoicus oblongus. 



(Polydrasus obi. Ent. Edin.) 

 Phyllobius Moll. 

 viridicollis. 

 Apion flavipes. 

 Haltica nemorum. 

 rufipes. 

 Phaedon Betulro. 



t uniidula. 



- marcinella. 

 Hclodes Phellandrii. 

 Coccinella globosa. 

 Tachinus nifipes. 

 Tachypoms analis. 

 marginal us. 



