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Contributions to the Entomology of the Cheviot Hills. No. III. 

 By James Hardy. 



The pursuit of tracing the distribution of Insects among 

 the Cheviots during the past inclement year, has been some- 

 what discouraging. Many of the old localities were flooded 

 and unworkable ; long walks had to be taken with meagre 

 returns ; and there were rarely two consecutive good days 

 for collecting, so that a search was very restricted. There 

 was a scarcity of spring species to commence with ; and long 

 before autumn they were much thinned out. Still, after an 

 analysis has been made of the results, a few novelties and 

 rarities do not leave the exertions of the past year wholly 

 without reward. The quantity of decayed hay on the hills 

 made it the principal object of investigation ; but after the 

 October rains, the hay still in the swathe on the high 

 grounds was quite unproductive. There was scarcely any 

 peculiarity in the insects yielded by the highland hay, to 

 indicate the influence of elevation or a corresponding severity 

 of climate. 



COLEOPTERA. 

 Dromius meridionalis. Broadstruther wood ; July. 



,, quadrinotatus. Beneath bark of fir ; Trickley wood. 

 Pterostichtts 2Ethiops. Hedgehope ; in old hay. 

 Amara obsoleta. Ditto. 



Harpaltjs tardus. Beneath stones ; side of Wooler water, above 



Earle Mill. 

 Bradycellus harpalintts. Old hay ; Langleyford vale. 

 Bembididm Mannerheimi. Among hay above Langleyford, and 



at the base of Hedgehope. 

 Bolitochara LTTCiDA. Fungi ; Earle Hill Head. October. 

 Haploglossa erythroceras. Bottom of old hay-stack near 

 Langlee, in some numbers; October. Eare. New to this 

 district. 

 Oxypoda spectabilis. In hay, Middleton wood ; October. 



„ pallidula. Among Hyjpnum triquetrum, in Humbleton 

 wood, and in moss at Earle Hili Head. 

 „ opaca and lividipennis. Decayed hay, Hedgehope, &c. 

 ,, hxemorrhoa. Bottom of old haystack, Langleyford 

 Backwood; three specimens. Mr Janson, "Entomol. Annual," 

 1857, p. 75, says he has repeatedly met with this insect in the 

 nests of Formica rufa, near London. New. 

 Homalota clavipes. Apex of Hedgehope. 



„ gregaria. Middleton wood ; two only. 



