FAUNA OF NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 63 
Mr. Waterhouse’s paper in the ‘‘ Transactions of the Ento- 
mological Society of London,” will enable the student to separate 
with ease the species of this intricate genus. 
29. Rhinoncus bruchoides, Hersst=Pachyrhinus rufescens, SrnPu. 
I have a single specimen of this beautiful creature, taken, 
I believe, at Gosforth. 
30. Pissodes notatus, Fas. 
The Rev. R. Kirwood has recently shown me a pair of 
this fine insect, which he captured in Sunderland, where it 
had no doubt been brought by some of the Scotch timber 
laden ships. Ihave specimens, taken near Elgin, in my 
own collection. 
V1I.—On the English Sea Fisheries. By the Rev. R. F. 
Wueeter, M.A. 
It is with some hesitation that I venture to bring the subject 
of our English Sea Fisheries before the members of the Tyneside 
Club; and it is rather with the hope of calling forth information 
from others, than from thinking that I can impart any of any 
particular value, that I have drawn up the paper I am about 
to read. 
There cannot be the slightest doubt as to the importance of 
our sea fisheries, Fish forms no small part of the food of all 
classes of the population, but the lower in the scale of society 
we descend, the more important does it become. Let any one 
examine the poorest neighbourhoods of any large town, and they 
will need no argument to convince them of this. They will find 
that nearly every small dealer in provisions includes within his 
stock an ample supply of red herrings and other cured fish; 
that, if the examination be made at the proper hour, there will 
also be found unnumbered itinerant dealers, whose whole object 
is to dispose of fish—perhaps none of the finest or freshest— 
which has been in vain offered to more wealthy purchasers. Or, 
if such an examination be thought unpleasant, let any one, after 
travelling up to London by the night mail, take a quiet stroll 
