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phaga. Hydroporus Gyllenhaiiy an exceedingly rare species, 

 has been taken at Gosforth. Prestwick Car Las furnished Ily. 

 tristis, and lly. ohscurus, both interesting from their rarity ; the 

 only locality, hitherto recorded for the latter, being a small 

 alpine tarn, on the summit of a mountain, near Killarney, in 

 Ireland. It has also been taken at Gosforth, in company with 

 Jly. angustatus. At the same time was captured a small, obscure 

 species, also an addition to our catalogue, and apparently new to 

 the British fauna. 



Cercyon centrimaculatum has been detected at Long Benton, 

 where it was found in some plenty. Limnehius Papposus has 

 occurred at Shotley Bridge and at Gosforth. The last mentioned 

 locality, has likewise furnished, Ips quadripustulata, Atomaria 

 mesomelas, and Scymnus nigrmus : the last is a very rare British 

 insect, and was beat out of the foliage of a scotch fir. Another 

 interesting addition, is Oomorphus concolor, which was taken 

 near Bothall, in July. 



I have observed one of the Fossorial Hymenoptera, Pempliredon 

 unicolor, to excavate the stems of rasps and brambles ; in which 

 it forms several oblong cells, provisioning them with a green 

 wingless Aphis. The same species has also been noticed, but 

 more rarely, burrowing in decaying white thorn stumps : and 

 then was observed to have made use of the common black Aphis, 

 which infests the bean, for provisioning its nidi. 



Notice of a New Shrimjo. By Mr. Joshua Alder. — At Culler- 

 coates, last autumn, I met with a new Shrimp which had been des- 

 cribed by Mr. Spence Bate, in the Annals of Natural History, only 

 a month or two before, under the name of Hipfolyte Barlei, from 

 a specimen got in Shetland. It is a small species, inhabiting 

 pools among the rocks, and is often very prettily coloured. The 

 prettiest variety has an opaque white carapace and a rose-coloured 

 abdomen, with blue stripes on the legs. Mr. Bate described the 

 species from a specimen in spirits which had lost its colours. 



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