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and have since reared it from the larvae found in decaying birches, 

 alders, and mountain ashes. Between Wooler Mill and Turvie- 

 lawSj the rare Aplotarsus ? marltimus of Curtis was found by the 

 water's edge ; as was also Df/schirius gibhus and three specimens 

 of Stenus atratulus, Erichson, a species unrecorded as British. 



July 1st. — In the morning I set out for Hedgehope. Near 

 Earl, I took Maltliinus brevicolUs and Atopa cervina. Entering 

 the vale that conducts to Langleyford, among the gravel below 

 the footbridge over Caer burn, a rivulet that joins the Wooler 

 water here, were the following rarer beetles, viz : — Tachyum 

 Jlavitarsis, Myllama dubia, Epajyhlus secalis, Blemus j^aludosus, 

 and Bembidium decorum. In the sandy places by the side of 

 Wooler water, Cryptohypnus quadripustulatus and Bledius sub- 

 terraneus were prevalent on the sands, as were Lesteva impressa 

 in marshes, and Stenus guttula and Ilelobia nivalis amongst 

 gravel. A single specimen of Monychus (Byrrhus) ceneus occur- 

 ed under a stone. I found many dead specimens of a large brown 

 Coccus on the sloe thorn (Prunus spinosa), which is closely 

 allied to a species that occurs in Berwickshire, on the Euonymus 

 europceus. Other insects worthy of notice were : — Amara tibi" 

 alts, Tachinus elongatus, Ragonycha pialudosa, Athous mttatus, 

 Podabrus alpinus, Otiorhyiichus ligneus, ApyJiodius idiginosus at 

 the foot of Cheviot, and Cionus Scrophidarice on Scrophularia 

 nodosa near Langleyford. The birches at the base of Hedgehope 

 offered only, Anoplus plantar is and Bythoscopu?, flavicollis. 

 Elmis ceneus was found on Fontinalis antipyretica in the streams. 

 Ceutorhynclius Ericoe accompanied the heath (Calluna vidgarisj 

 from the base nearly to the summit. Here Ragonycha paludosa 

 assumed a very dark colour, and I imagined, but perhaps the 

 observation was illusory, that Rhagio scolopaceus and Panorpa 

 communis were unwontedly large. There was little to interest 

 till I had surmounted the boggy ground, towards the upper part 

 of which flourished the Saxifraga stellaris and Trientalis eiiro^ 

 pcjea, the latter dwarf and single-flowered, and a profusion of 

 Chrysosplenium oppiositifolium that matted over little rills of 

 water of a crystal purity and of an icy coolness. Here Omaseus 

 Orinomus, Steropus jEChiops, and Bradycellus cognatus began to 



