172 Mr. Hardy on the Entomology of the Cheviot Hills. 



minims to these dreary upland moors. But the Sciarse formed 

 the main body, which kept streaming away, in a gleeful dance , 

 like a fairy raid, over the eastmost corner of the hill, towards 

 the great gulf that intervened between it and Cheviot. If this 

 goes on in the summer atmosphere, no wonder that swallows 

 feed high. To one standing at the base, small birds would be 

 out of sight, so far aloft. On this subject Mr. R. Scot Skirving 

 furnishes me with something appropriate. In September, the 

 small dung beetle (Aphodius) appeared in myriad swarms in 

 East Lothian. " They filled the whole air, and covered all the 

 cow and horse dung on the roads and fields. They must also 

 have flown very high in the air. I saw, for a week, a cloud of 

 the Black-headed Grull darting about high in the air. They 

 did not light. At last I shot one, and found it full of these 

 beetles." 



Hemiptera. 



.ZEtorhinus angulatus. On 



Alder. 

 Lygus campestris. 

 Anthocoris nemorum. 

 Salda saltatoria. 



,, pallipes. 

 Pantilius tunicatus. One. 



Scolopotothus affinis. 

 Peritrichus luniger. Lill Burn. 

 Trapezonotus agrestis. Wooler 



water, in moss. 

 Drymus sylvaticus. Ditto. 

 ,, brunneus. Ditto. 

 Stygnocoris sabulosus. Ditto. 

 Monolocoris Eilicis. On Aspidia. 



Homoptera. 



Liburnia limbata. Acocephalus bifasciatus. 



Ulopa obtecta. Aphrophora Alni. 



IdiocerusPopuli. On the Sallow. Iassus mixtus. One. 

 ,, fruticola. Birches, ,, 6-notatus. 



&c. Eupteryx citrinellus. 



In the end of September I found the burrows of the 

 solitary bees quite deserted by the diligent population that 

 rendered them so lively in summer. Only a few of Halictus 

 Tumulorum lingered at one spot, and they deserve notice, as 

 this was their latest date. Some remnants of the yellow 

 blossom of Hypochceris radicata had kept them from starving 

 till then. Born with the spring dandelions, they perish with 

 the autumnal. But the spring and summer banks will be as 

 populous as ever, and the passer by will take these for his 

 friends of the bygone year. They were all killed off, without 

 exception ; and these are the offspring for which they toiled 

 throughout every blink of sunshine, under a terror of dark 

 clouds, and for whose preservation they expended so many 

 instinctive wiles. To observe bees that don't sting, one has 

 only to betake himself to the sunny bank of a sandy road. 



