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Contributions to the Entomology of the Cheviot Hills. 

 No. V. By James Hardy. 



My collection of Insects in the Cheviot district, when I 

 visited it in the beginning of June, consisted principally of 

 Saw-flies. Although there were only six collecting daj^s, 

 and some of them windy and chill, and the yield conse- 

 quently appeared insignificant, several new insects to the 

 district were secured ; along with others never before seen 

 on the same well-searched tracts. In some localities, such 

 as Yeavering wood, insects were very scarce. I was pro- 

 bably too early for high lying places exposed to the north. 



COLEOPTERA. 



Carabtts nemoralis, Mull. This is common among stones on the 

 dry slopes of the Sneer hill, facing Langleyford vale ; also near 

 Earle Mill. 



Olistophtjs rotttndattis, PayJc. I have seldom seen this moor- 

 land beetle more abundant than under small stones at the top 

 of Newton Tor, where it associated with the hill Bradycelli. 



Pterostichtts orlxomtts, Steph. Several at the top of Newton 

 Tor. It hybernates, like the Carabi, in an oval cell under 

 stones at the tops of Cheviot and Hedgehope. 



Lathkobium mtjltipunctatum, Grav. One in ant's nest, at the 

 foot of Watch Law, Common Burn. 



Mycetophagus mttlttptjxctattts, Fab. One by sweeping, side of 

 Harthope burn, near Langleyford meadows. 



Melolontha vulgaris, Fab, I never till this season saw the 

 Cockchafer in North Northumberland, although Mr. Selby 

 records it for Twizell. There were only five or six examples 

 altogether on different days, which I beat from oaks in the 

 wood above Caldgate Mill, and again in Middleton wood, 

 which lies further up on the south bank of Wooler Water. 

 Nor did I ever find it abundant at Gibside, where the climate 

 is more genial. It still holds true, as in the time of Wallis, 

 that " we have few chafers, even in the hottest summers ; sel- 

 dom more than a pair being seen at a time." ("Hist. Northd.," 

 i., p. 365). A few have been taken about Chirnside, in Ber- 

 wickshire. June. 



Phyllopertha horticola, L. I was glad also to welcome this 

 small gay-coloured chafer — " the Bracken-Clock, " so abun- 

 dant about Gibside and by the Derwent — to the borders of the 

 Wooler Water, where it occurred on the trees and bushes on 

 both the Middleton Hall and Middleton sides, and followed up 

 Old Middleton dean to the top. It has been recorded for Holy 

 Island, Twizell, and the river Glen. June. 



