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floated by a cork. The bait is put in the middle of the inside, and the 

 fish enter by the holes at the ends. These creeves or cases are drawn 

 lip once a-daj^ the fish taken out, and fresh bait put in, when they are 

 let down again for another take. The fishermen sometimes lose the 

 whole when a storm comes away during the night, or so suddenly that 

 they have not had time to get them ashore. They are placed so near 

 the land that a high sea almost invariably breaks and scatters them, 

 when they happen to be in the water at the time. 



Lobsters seldom enter a case in which crabs are. The black coats 

 do not sefem fond of the company of red coats. Perhaps the crabs eat 

 all up and give them no tithe. They also prefer different food. The 

 crab likes a showy mess, such as skate-heads and tails, cod-heads and 

 guts, and gills ; but the lobster seems to know that it is not all gold 

 that glitters ; he has a predilection for flounders and haddocks, and 

 other dainties. 



Another way of taking lobsters and crabs is called truuking. A 

 smaller case than the one described, and with a hole at the top, is 

 used more especially for lobsters ; or an iron hoop, with a net fastened 

 to the rim of it, falling down like a land net, and leaving the upper 

 part open. The bait is fastened in the middle, and after being a half 

 an hour or so in water, they are quickly drawn up, the fish taken out, 

 and then let down again. This method is used at night only. 



The crab and lobster fishing has been much more attended to since 

 the London market was opened to this part of the coast by steam com- 

 munication between London and Berwick. But the lobsters will soon 

 be harried if the fishermen continue to take them when full of eggs, as 

 they have been doing for three years past. They should cease fishing 

 at a certain season, as the Holy Island fishermen do. 



List of Coleopterous Insects collected in the neighhoiirliood of the Pease 

 Bridge. By Mr James Hardy. 



COLEOPTERA. 



No. 1. Clivina fossor. No. 10. Poecilus cnpreus. 



2. ... coUaris. 11. Anaara siinilata ? 



3. Cychrus rostratas. 12. Harpalus asnens. 



4. Carabus arveiisis. 13. Agonum parurapunctatmn. 



5. Helobia brevicollis. 14. Trecliiis dorsalis. 



6. Steropus madidus. 15. Anchomenns prasinus. 



7. Calathus melanocephalas. 16. Notiopliilus biguttatus. 



8. Omaseus melanarius. 17. ... aquations. 



9. Amara trivialis. 18. Elaphras cupreus. 



