332 Mr. Hardy on the Entomology of the Cheviots. 



Macrocoletjs Hardyi, Bold, "Nat. Hist. Trans. Northumberland 

 and Durham," iv., p. 358 (1872).=M. mollicultts, Fall. The 

 specimens were only the last, in very fine condition. Douglas 

 and Scott, ib.. p. 185. From Tansy on the river Glen near 

 Coupland. 



Der^eocoris fornicatus, Doug, and Scott. " Brit. Hemipt.," 

 329, sp. 11. Mr. Scott in "Ent. Mo. Mag.," xi., p. 117, 

 inserts a note signifying that owing to some specimens "sent 

 by the late Mr. T. J. Bold, and taken, I believe, by Mr. Hardy 

 on or in the neighbourhood of the Cheviots, I have been 

 enabled to satisfy myself that the above insect is merely a 

 northern form of D. striatellus. The series consisted of the 

 reddish-yellow type form, with all intermediate varieties. It 

 will be necessary, therefore, to refer the name as a synonym 

 to D. striatellus." The specimens referred to were beaten from 

 oaks in Old Middleton wood. 



Orthostira macrophthalma, Fieb, This is described by Messrs. 

 Douglas and Scott in "Ent. Mo. Mag.," xi„ p. 173, from a 

 single undeveloped example, which has already appeared in 

 the Cheviot list, first, as 0. cervina, and second, as 0. nigrina, 

 with neither of which it agrees. Taken in August, 1871, 

 among moors on the top of Cheviot, and not Cold Martin Moss 

 as I had at first supposed. 



Salda vestita, Douglas. This species was recorded last year. 

 Mr. "Douglas describes it in " Ent. Mo. Mag.," xi., p. 11. He 

 refers it mistakingly to the Tyneside district; it being taken on 

 the Wooler Water, and the Glen near Coupland. 



HEMIPTERA HOMOPTERA. 



Strongylocephaltts Megerlei, Fieb. Mr. Scott describes this 

 in "Ent. Mo Mag.," xi., p. 122, from two specimens sent to 

 him by my late friend, Mr, T. J. Bold. It so happens that Mr. 

 Bold sent to Mr. Scott for determination an Acocephalus, which 

 is recorded in our lists as sp. incog., in 1871, Yol. vi., p. 263. 

 As this has not been reported on, I take it for granted that 

 there is every likelihood that these are the specimens Mr. Scott 

 has described, which, owing to Mr. Scott's absence in Spain, 

 had lain unexamined till recently. The new genus is founded 

 on Acocephalus. If I am correct, the insect was collected on 

 some of the porphyrytic hills near Wooler. 



Triecphora sangttestolenta, L. Of this rare and brightly- 

 painted insect, I took one among grass and ferns at the bottom 

 of Old Middleton wood. It has a powerful flight, and its size 

 and colouring led me, at the first glance, to imagine that it 

 was a Burnet Moth. After I had secured it, it was constantly 

 attempting to get out of the bottle, like all its kind. I saw 

 another in a bog farther up, but its motions were too rapid to 



