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amongst which were the remains of OtiorhyncUus Maurus. A 

 solitary hive-bee was reposing in this airy region. The descent 

 by the northern side is exceedingly abrupt. At its base, which 

 is swampy, grows a bosket of scroggy alders, birches, guelder-roses, 

 and willows. Orchestes scutellaris, 0. hifasciatus and Anohium 

 castaneum were its more select inhabitants. I reached the turn- 

 pike at the agricultural hamlet of New Yeavering. About a 

 mile to the west, is Adgebrin or Old Yeavering, once, a.d. 627, 

 the palace of the Saxon Kings of Northumberland. 



July 4th. — My first object to-day was to visit Whitsunbank 

 hill to the East of Wooler. The banks by the side of the road 

 leading to it are a favourite resort of solitary bees. Those I took 

 were, Andrena cingulata. A. analis, Halictus minutics, II. niti- 

 diusculus, and a N'omada allied to quadrinotata. On the heath 

 Bradycellus cognatus and B. collaris were picked up. The 

 dredge net brought up in the moss-pools Colymbeies histriatus, 

 C. angiistior, Philhydrus testaceus, and P. A finis, all desirable 

 additions to the local Fauna. In this moss the Cranberry, Vac- 

 cinum Oxycoccos, grows in abundance. I swept up Ragonycha 

 paludosa, Telepliorus dispar, and Cyphon griseus. Cocciiiella 

 livida was met with in an adjoining fir plantation, as also under 

 the bark of decaying Scotch pines, were Phloeopora corticalis 

 and Othius alternans. Another tree, which was smutted with a 

 sooty fungus, Stemonitis fasciculata, produced Leiodes humeralis, 

 L, ahdominalis, and an Agathidium, apparently new, A. Lyco- 

 golcE, MS. I descended on the N. E. to the turnpike, where 

 Gymaetron niger, as at Wooler, was the occupant of Veronica 

 Anagallis. At Weetwood Bridge, I reached the Till, whose 

 muddy banks, as I followed its windings downwards, presented 

 a new field for inquiry. Bledius suhterraneus was equally abun- 

 dant as on the Wooler water ; but was accompanied here by 

 what I take for Heterocerus marginatus, but the specimens were 

 remarkably dark. Both burrow in the mud. Stenus guttula 

 was coursing about in the sunshine, along with the rare Tachyusa 

 chalyhea, and the equally rare and singular T. constricta. Stenus 

 hupthahmis was very abundant, and S. x>lcintaris lurked in the 

 marshes. . In the gravelly spots were Bemhidium pictludoswn, B. 



