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heather, as well as on the wild rock-rose {Helianthemum vulyare). 

 " Last year the heather on my hill farms was blighted, as we 

 thought, by a spring frost ; but these larvae afterwards were 

 noticed, to a great extent, by my shepherd, feeding and destroy- 

 ing the plants. When he called my attention to them they 

 were passing away ; this year, however, we have kept a look 

 out for them ; but they are not so numerous." 



Thyamis melaxocephalus, puscicollis, and stttttkalis. On Rag- 

 wort, Humbleton dean, &c. 



Tkiplax ^enea. On the Polyporus and agarics of the Alder, 

 Broadstruther wood ; woods about Langlee, and downwards on 

 Wooler water ; and on the Lill Burn. Also on an oak fungus, 

 old Middleton wood. This is considerably farther north in 

 Northumberland, than it has been previously observed. It 

 will probably cross into Roxburghshire. It is not recorded in 

 Mr. Murray's "Catalogue of Scottish Coleoptera." 



LATiiRiDitrs nodipee. In dried-up agarics on Alders, and on 

 others on the ground under the shade of those trees. Dark 

 glen near Langlee; and more abundant in South Middleton 

 dean, where it joins the Lill Burn. Numerous ; otherwise a 

 rare insect. 



,, minutus. With the last, but much less frequent. 



Phaedon Cochlears, (= Betulse, Curt.). Marshes on Wooler 

 water. 



Rhizobius Littjra. Found by shaking moss, and Eleocharis 

 ccespitosa, over paper, in Cold Martin Moss. I suppose it is 

 there parasitic on a small white powdered Coccus, which 

 abounds about the roots of the Eleocharis or " Deer's Hair." 

 More usually it occurs on sea-side sand-hills. 



Cocci n ella 7-punctata. Of this, the common "Lady Bird," I 

 turned out one from under a stone, at the top of Hedgehope. 

 It is gifted with long wings, but one would scarce expect that 

 it would soar so high; 2348 feet. Cheviot, where I found 

 another lowland species (Sitones lineatus), is 2676 feet in height. 

 In connection with the elevation attained by this insect, 

 quite beyond the area of its food, I may mention a wonderful 

 migration of midges, which I passed through in my October 

 ascent of Hedgehope. The air, which was unusually soft and 

 balmy compared with its wonted keenness on this windy pro- 

 montory, was crowded with them ; and at first I thought I had 

 encountered the upper stratum of the clouds of Aphides that 

 then hung over the cultivated tracts, which I had been free 

 from, as soon as I got amongst the hills. They were not 

 Aphides, but an infinitude of Sciara vitripennis, mixed with 

 males of a reddish brown ant (Myrmica ruyinodis), a few of 

 Sitones lineatus, and a stray field bug or two, Lyyus campestris. 

 The Red Admiral Butterfly had also joined the trip of these 



