2812 Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club. 



Proceedings of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club. 



A meeting of the club was held in the committee-room of the Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Society, Newcastle-on-Tyne, on the evening of the 4th of April ; the Rev. R. 

 C. Coxe, Vicar of Newcastle, in the chair. 



The President, Dennis Embleton, Esq., M.D., read two papers : one, " On the 

 Old English or Black Rat," skins of which (taken at Stockton-on-Tees), along with 

 drawings of its anatomical peculiarities, were exhibited. The other paper was " On 

 the Short Sun-fish," the specimen of which exhibited was taken off Cullercoats last 

 year. Dr. E. entered minutely into its anatomy, pointing out its more prominent 

 peculiarities, and illustrating his remarks with drawings from the pencil of Mr. A. 

 Hancock : the paper will form a valuable addition to our knowledge of these strange 

 creatures. 



' Another paper was by Ralph Carr, Esq., being the second part of his " Observa- 

 tions on Composite Names of Places, chiefly in Northumberland, of Anglo-Saxon 

 derivation ; being a contribution of materials towards the formation of an Archaic 

 and Orthographical Chart of the County." 



Mr. James Hardy contributed a paper on the habitats, &c, of some " New British 

 Homopterous Insects." In it he characterised a new genus ( Dikraneura ), and 

 described seventeen new species, viz. — 



Typhlocyba plagiata. Gibside and Penmanshiel Wood. 



exitnia. Woods near Winlaton Mill. 



rubi. On the bramble and hazel, at Gibside and Penmanshiel Wood, 



at the end of October. 



lutea. Berwickshire. 



' quadrisignata. In meadows and deans, common. 



octonotata. Beat out of willows, on the Derwent ; August. 



sexmaculata. Gibside. 



jucunda. Near Winlaton Mill, in August. 



Stachydearum. Common, being met with so late as December. 



Dikraneura variata. Abundant amongst grass, and in sea-caverns, on Geranium 

 Robertianum, in October. 



Aphodrus spilotocephala. Meadows; Newcastle, Berwickshire, and near Edin- 

 burgh. 



juvenca. Banks of the Derwent. 



melanopsis. Among short herbage, on barren banks, Berwickshire. 



marmorata. Beat out of bushes, on the banks of the Dei-went and in 



Berwickshire. 



Acucephalus adustus. In fields, late in autumn. 



Parapia pallidipennis. Bents near South Shields ; Berwickshire and near Edin- 

 burgh. 



Cixius dorsalis. Taken at Milne Garden, near Coldstream, Berwickshire ; June. 



At the conclusion of the meeting Dr. Charlton read a letter which he had received 

 from W. K. Loftus, Esq., detailing his late important Chaldean discoveries. — T. J. B. 



