NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 79 
“ Newcastle and Meldon Park.”—G. Wailes, Hsq. “ Twizell.” 
—P. J. Selby, Esq. In dead birds and other animals, at Prest- 
wick, and Long Benton.—7. J. B. July—September. 
3. N. mortuorvum, Jab. 
Steph. Illust., Mand., iii., 19. 
In carcases of the smaller quadrupeds, and in Fungi. “ Twi- 
zell."—-P. J. Selby, Esq. Gosforth, Long Benton, Gibside, 
Winlaton Mill, &c. June—September. 
4, N. vesprnuo, Linn. 
Steph. Illust., Mand., iii., 20. 
In dead animals. “Stockton.”—Hogq’s Stockton. “ Newcas- 
tle and Meldon Park.”—G. Wales, Hsq. “Twizell.”—P. J. 
Selby, Esq. Sides of the Tyne and Team, Washington, Hartle- 
pool, &c. April—September. 
The oldest local notice of this species is contained in a MS. 
note, in a copy of Ray’s Historia Insectorum, in the library of 
the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle. The 
writer is unknown (Isaac Thompson ?), but it may be gathered, 
that he entomologized about Newcastle from 1749 to 1760. He 
mentions R. Harrison, the distinguished mathematician, as hav- 
ing brought him the eruca of the Puss Moth (Cerura Vinula), 
“in saliceto suo in Pandon Dean deprehensam, 19 Jul. 1760.” 
In respect to WV. vespillo, he has written on the margin :—“Stri- 
dorum vexatus emittit, non multum a murino abludentem.” 
This mouse-like querulous noise, is also the token of irritation 
in others of the species.—J. H. 
85. Necropes, Wilkin. 
1. N. nrrrorauis, Linn. 
Steph. Illust., Mand., iii., 21.—Curtis, Brit. Ent., pl. 334. 
Carcases on river-banks, dc. “Meldon Park, Newcastle, sea- 
shore, Tynemouth ; common.”—G. Wailes, sq. “ Twizell.”—P. 
J. Selby, Hsq. Tyneside, Town Moor, Long Benton, &e. 
86. Orcroptoma, Leach. 
1. O. tHoractca. Linn. 
Steph. Illust., Mand., iii., 22. 
Not uncommon beneath dead moles, birds, &c., and in Fungi. 
“Meldon Park, Witton-le-Wear, &c.”—G. Wailes, Esq. “Dur- 
