2 SECOND FIELD MEETING. 
Panopea Biwonea, Pecten Landsburghii, Fusus Norvegicus, F. 
Turton, Fusus, a new species allied to F. corneus, Trochus 
millegranus, Natica Grenlandica, Hypothyris ( Terebratula) 
psittacea, Axinus (Cryptodon) flexuosus. Corats—Retepora 
Beaniana. Sponazrs—A new species of Halichondria. Besides 
the above-named species, Mr. King stated that he had obtained 
from time to time several dead shells, which he supposed to have 
been washed up from a tertiary shell bank situated twenty miles 
from the northern part of the coast of Northumberland, viz. :— 
Astarte Gatrensis, not found living on the east coast of England, 
but found fossil at Bridlington, and living on the west coast of 
Scotland ; Saxicava sulcata, a species nearly allied to S. rugosa, 
but much larger, only found fossil on this side of the island, but 
living in Baffin’s Bay. A species of Mya, allied to IV. truncata, 
received living from Greenland, by Mr. A. Hancock, and named 
by that gentleman J. Grenlandica ; it is found in a fossil state 
in Sweden, on the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and in the 
Isle of Bute. 
The secretary mentioned that he had noticed in a ditch at 
Marsden, Durham, Callitriche platycarpa, which had not been be- 
fore announced as a plant of this district. 
He also announced that, in company with Mr. John Storey 
and Mr. John Thompson, he had noticed new habitats for one or 
two of the rarer Northumberland plants, viz.: Pyrola minor, 
Carduus heterophyllus, and Rubus saxatilis, in Cockton wood, 
near Chesterholme. 
The insects mentioned by Mr. Hardy in his paper, as worthy 
of particular notice, are Ophonus pubescens, by the Wear, in 
Southwick Marsh, a little above Sunderland; Cateretes bipustu- 
latus, at the same place. He had found the same insect by the 
Derwent, near Winlaton Mill. On the bog below Hilton Castle 
he found Lphistemus gyrinoides, Tachyerges Salicett, Crioceris 
tenella. In old grass fields in the same vicinity he found Gym- 
naetron tricolor (first found in this vicinity by Mr. T. J. Bold). 
Of Dipterous insects he noticed Ptychoptera paludosa; Beris 
clavipes ; Chrysomyia polita and Chrysogaster viduata, and (by 
far the rarest) Vemotelus nigrinus. On the Derwent, near Gib- 
