82 Mr. Hardy's Entomological Notices for 1869. 



of Lapwings begin to frequent the turnip-fields, which doubt- 

 less do good service in thinning this as well as other concealed 

 vermiform marauders on our green crops. 



With regard to Butterflies: of the Painted Lady, a periodical 

 species, I did not see a single instance. In 1868 I observed 

 it on the summit of Eildon hills and along many of the sea- 

 cliffs ; and elswhere it was general. This season common 

 Blues were numerous ; Artaxerxes less common, being con- 

 fined to the region of its food-plant, the dwarf Cistus (near 

 Coldingham lough and on the Ale water) ; small Copper, 

 scarce ; Tortoise-shell, abundant ; Red Admiral, very rare ; 

 Fritillaries, almost nowhere ; Alsus, not seen ; Wood Argus, 

 frequent in woods on the Ale ; Grayling, Ringlet, Meadow 

 Brown, and Heath, copiously. 



In August I noted a new fact about the food of Steropus 

 madidus, a beetle reckoned pre-eminently carnivorous. But 

 on this occasion it was engaged eating into the pith of a 

 green but full grown bean which had been crushed, a pod 

 having fallen on a pathway and been trod upon. 



Acanthosoma dentatum, one of the finest of the larger tree- 

 bugs, was taken in autumn, under trees overhanging the 

 public road at Old Bewick. I have another Northumbrian 

 example, I believe from the Wooler district. 



Autalia puncticollis of Sharp, a Staphylinid new to the 

 district, was gathered in the Dunsdale ravine, Cheviot. 

 Hitherto it has only been found in Scotland. 



Caterpillars of the Death's Head Moth have occurred in 

 various localities. A Migratory Locust was captured at 

 Coldingham. 



Note on p. 55. — P. Richer de Bellaval was a native of 

 France, not an Italian. I was misled by Tournefort's indefi- 

 nite term " Campanum." He belonged to " Catalauno- 

 Companiensi," i.e., Chalons in Champagne. (Sprengel, 

 Hist. Rei. Herb. II. p. 107). 



