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bright weather, and by shaking damp moss at other times. 

 Has not been taken of late. 



Oligota inflata. Barn refuse, Girrick. 



Gymnusa brevicollis. Two taken from half-submerged moss ; 

 Lurgie Loch. 



Mylljena minttta. Plentiful in wet moss ; Lurgie. 



,, brevicornis. Beside rills trickling down to Eden. 



Contjkus ptjbescens. Near Nenthorn. 



Leucoparyphus silphoides. Pastures, Girrick ; horse-droppings, 

 &c. Not common. 



Tachyporus obtustts, var. nitidicollis. Occasional near Girrick. 

 This variety seems to occupy the place of the type near Tralee, 

 Ireland. In a parcel of beetles collected there this summer, 

 indiscriminately, all the examples of this species are nitidicollis. 



Tachinus elavipes. In sheep-droppings, on farm of Blinkbonny, 

 in August ; several, 



,, laticollis. Not uncommon in Hypnum in woods 

 about Mellerstain, &c. 



Boletobitts inclinans, One in moss, fir plantation between 

 Girrick and Mellerstain, in August, 1862; found also at Pol- 

 mont in March of same year. Has not occurred at either 

 place since. New to Scotch list. This is the species taken by 

 my friend I)r Millingen in the Wooler district, in the summer 

 of 1862, and recorded by Mr Hardy in his second paper on 

 the " Entomology of Cheviot." By a slip of the pen, it would 

 appear that I had named it B. cingulatus. 



Bryoporus Hardyi. In fir plantation, Mellerstain. One speci- 

 men. New to Scotch list. 



Mycetoportjs luctdtjs. Three or four in same locality. 

 ,, punctus. One ditto in September, 1851. 



,, Keyi.=angularis. One in same plantation. 



,, clavicornis. Three, ditto. The four last names 



all new to Scottish lists, when taken and examined. 



Queditjs fulvicollis. Same place, and in Lurgie Loch in moss. 

 Also new. 



,, fuscipes. Haystack, Girrick. One in August last. 

 One formerly taken by me at Berwick. 



Othius l^eviuscttlus. Plentiful on one occasion in a plantation 

 on Girrick braes. Very ready to take wing in the sunshine. 



Leptacinus linearis. Not uncommon in barn refuse ; Girrick. 

 ,, parumpunctatus. Occasional, ditto. 



Cryptobitjm eracticorne. Frequent in wet moss ; Lurgie. 



Stilictts aefinis. Common in straw and hay stacks in August. 



Dianous ccertjlescens. Stichell Linn, in numbers. 



Syntomium jENEtjm. Woods at Stichell, &c. 



Trogophl^eus ARcrcATTTs.=scROBicuLATUs. Stichell Linn. 



Lathrim^eum unicolor. One in moss ; Lurgie. 



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