278 MR. HARDY ON THE BORDER OOLEOPTERA. 



A Letter from William Brodrick, Esq., to the Secretary. 



Belford, July 2ilh, 1848. 



My Dear Sir, 



As I shall not be present at the Meeting on Wed- 

 nesday next, I wish to tell you that I have obtained, since our 

 last meeting, a rather scarce and interesting bird, viz., a spe- 

 cimen of the Horned or Sclavonian Grebe {Podiceps cornutus), 

 in the perfect summer plumage, killed a few weeks back, near 

 Newton-on-the-Sea. As the bird is seldom met with in this 

 plumage, perhaps the circumstance is worth mentioning to 

 the Club. 



Believe me to be very truly. 

 Yours, 



Wm. Brodrick, 



Catalogue of some of the rarer Border Coleoptera, shown to the 

 Berwickshire Naturalists Cluh, at their Meeting at Grant's 

 House, 26th July, 1848. By Mr. James Hardy. 



1. Tarus basalis. Moor above Ecklaw. 



2. Lamprias chlorocephalus. Mouth of the Pease-burn. 



S. Dyschirius seneus. Swinton. The pool, on the side of 

 which it was taken, was frequented by Bledius frac- 

 ticornis. 



4. Dyschirius gibbus. Penmanshiel. Border of a rivulet. 



5. Amphigynus (Calathus) piceus. Near Nenthorn. 



6. Omaseus orinomum. Hill near Ecklaw. 



7. bulwerii. Mourne Mountains, Ireland. 



8. Pterostichus oblongopurictatus. Northampton. These 



three appear to me to constitute one species, varying 

 in lustre, and the colour of the tibiae. 



9. SteropusiBthiops , -i Penmanshiel 



= cognatus, Steph. j 



10. Miscodera arctica. Moor near Drakemire. 



11. Amarapatrici^ ^ I Moor near Drakemire. 



= Bradytus marginatus. Curt, j 



12. Ophonus puncticollis. Coast at the Ewe Lairs, near the 



Cove shore. 



13. JTrechus (Epaphius) secalis. Penmanshiel. 



