In the flowers of Compositse. 



pbesident's addeess. 201 



Ocypus fuscatm, Grav. — "Wooler. 



Lina cenea, Fabr. — "Wooler. = Ifelasoma ameum, Bold, Cat. 



Adalia obliterata, L. — Neighbourhood of "Wooler. 



Hyhenopteea. 

 JYeuroterus lenticularis, Olio. — Leaves of the Quercus robur, 

 with the common spangle galls. From "Wooler to Chillingham. 

 Bombus hicoriim, Linn. 

 B. sylvarum, Linn. 

 B. lapidarius, Linn., Sm. 

 B. Derhamellus, Kirb. 

 Andrena? Af%eliella, Kirb., Sm. — Neighbourhood of "Wooler. 



Aeachntda. 

 Gamarus Coleoptratorum, L. Parasites on Geotrupes sylvatiens, 

 Fabr. 



Araneidce. — Six or seven species. 

 Phalangidce. — Two or three species. 



I have not been able to determine, in time, some species of 

 Hexapodes, and the species of Araneidce and of Phalangidce. I 

 expect to do it in a few days, and to send you a list of the 

 names. This leads me to the closing part of my note. 



IV. 



There does not exist in Newcastle any good Library of Natu- 

 ral Sciences. Students of Natural History in Newcastle have 

 no literary means of working. When an animal or vegetable 

 species is found, which is not represented in the collection of the 

 Barras Bridge Museum, there are no means of determining it in 

 Newcastle. 



It will suffice, by way of example, to say that there does not 

 exist, either in the Library of the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society, the Free Library, or in the small Library of the Museum, 

 any one book, later than 1864, with the genera of the Araneidce 

 of Europe, or even of England. Nor in any of these Libraries 

 is there found, complete, the Prodromus Systematis naturalis 

 Regni Vegetabilis of Aug. Pyr and Alph. de Candolle, and the 

 Monographies which have continued it up to date, and which 



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