NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 227 



1843-4. Our countryman, Ray, was, perhaps, the first who 

 described its transformations. — (See his Hist. Ins., 86.) 



2. C. Blattaria, Clairv. 



Steph. Illust J Hand., iv., 18. 



" Durham." — Ornshys Durham. 



The pale green glutinous larva feeds on the leaf of Scrophularia 

 nodosa. 



302. Cleopus, Megerle. 

 1. C. PULCHELLUS, Hevhst. 



Steph. Illust. i Maud., iv,, 19. 

 On Scrophularia nodosa. Common, in the immediate vicinity 

 of Newcastle ; as at Dunston, above Winlaton Mill, &c. May — 

 June. 



303. GrMN^TRON, Schonh. 

 1. Gr. NIGER: Niger, nitidus, parce cinereo-pubescens, thoracis 



lateribus pectoreque alhido-squamosis, antennarum hasi 



ferruginea, elytris plerumque pedibusque concoloribus. 



Long. 1 — 1^ lin. 

 Gymntetron niger, Walton 3ISS. ? — Rhynchasnus Beccabun- 



gae, var. e., Gyll. Ins. Suec, iii., 123. 

 Of the same shape, but smaller, and much less pubescent than G. 

 Beccahungce; black, shining ; rostrum on the upper part, and the 

 crown with a slight, short, pale grey pubescence ; antenna? ferru- 

 ginous, or rufopiceous at the base, the club black; thorax, with 

 a faint longitudinal ridge along the middle, thickly punctate, with 

 a thickish, pale greyish, white scaliness on the sides and breast, 

 and the fore and hinder margin also somewhat pale greyish, the 

 disk nearly glabrous, and shining; elytra moderately broad, and 

 but slightly convex, black, shining, the tip sometimes ferru- 

 ginous, with a dash of the same tint on each elytron, distinctly 

 punctate-striate, the interstices thickly punctulate, with a short 

 inconspicuous ashy pile, somewhat disposed in lines ; sides beneath 

 with thickish, light greyish, white scales; legs black, the tarsi 

 and the base of the tibise, sometimes piceous. 



On Veronica Anagallis; at Gosforth, and one specimen from 



