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of tlie flowers, which, as well as several of the cauline leaves, are 

 rendered quite hoary with a dense long wool-like down. Aphis 

 Hederce and A, Pastinacce were noticed at Shoreston, the latter 

 on fennel ( Fceniculum vulgare), 



June 25th. — I visited the basaltic height called Budle Crag. 

 A few good insects were taken, such as : — Agathidium atrum^ 

 Atomaria fiiscipes, Stenus nigritulus, Quedius fuscipes, Aleochara 

 Morion, Stilicus a-ffinis, Lithocharis ochracea, Otiorhynchus scah- 

 rosus, and Dioctria rujlpes. In a small w^ood on the N.W. side 

 of the hill, I got Hylastes piceus, Marsh. The leaves of the elms 

 here were pouched and twisted by Aphis Ulmi. Ceutorhynchtts 

 Boraginis was met with on water-cresses, both here and at Budle, 

 at the latter place accompanied by Psylliodes Napi. I was still 

 more successful on reaching the sea-coast, within sight of the 

 Heather Houses, where the following rare insects occurred under 

 stones immersed at each return of the tide, viz : — Aepus fulves- 

 cens, Micralymma hrevipenne, Bemhidium (Cillenum) lateralej 

 Phytosus spinifer, and Ilomalota serica7is. These were accom- 

 panied by numbers of the blue, sluggish Achorutes maritima, the 

 Podicra maritima of Otho Fabricius, (Faun. GroenL 212.) Ae2:)us 

 fulvescens feeds on small Crustacea, apparently the young of 

 Orchesia littorea, which it carries about in its mandibles, like a 

 little terrier. On my return I followed a track skirting the 

 shore, but excepting Calodera longitarsis, under stones at a 

 swampy spot, where the Budle Hills terminate in the sea, I re- 

 marked nothing of interest. 



June 26th. — I traversed the coast to the south, as far as 

 Dunstanborough Castle. From the prevalence of sand links, 

 there was little diversity in this dreary tract, from what I had 

 seen on previous days further to the north. Cynips aptera and 

 Eomalota lividipennis occurred near Beadnell, as well as the 

 customary species that frequent marine rejectamenta, such as : — 

 Phytosus spinifer, Omalium Iceviusculum, Oxytelus Jlavipes, and 

 Aleochara ohscurella. After passing Beadnell, I observed several 

 of the terminal buds of Cerastium ietrandrum much tumefied by 

 the presence of Aphis Stellarice (North Brit. Agriculturist, ii., 

 788, 1850.) in their interior. Geranium sanguineum, which 



