608 Miscellanea. By James Hardy. 



belonging to the Earl of Eavensworth, I observed that several of 

 the trunks of some old beeches were spotted white with the 

 cottony investment of Coccus Fagi, which is not recorded in any 

 of the lists of the Insects of Northumberland and Durham. It 

 was a place I knew, for I had been there entomologising more 

 than thirty years previously. On November 5th 1883, I noticed 

 that it still exists in Dalkeith Park, and as I have noticed before, 

 it occurs in Gosford Park, and near Ayton ; still more recently 

 I observed it on beech trunks and roots at Polton bank on both 

 sides of the road to the Eailway Station. 



Aneurus LiEvis {Fah.) at Gibside. This curious bug was 

 found on one occasion under the bark of paling on the low 

 grounds by the Derwent, near Gibside. I have still the specimens. 

 It is not recorded in Mr J. T. Bold's list of Hemiptera, Nat. 

 Hist. Trans. Northd. and Durham, vol. rv. It is figured in 

 Curtis' B. E. ii. fig. %Q, and Douglas and Scott, Brit. Hemipt. 

 PI. ix. fig. 8. 



BoREUS HYEMALis. I had forgottcu to register in the Club's 

 Proceedings this very singular looking insect as a Border species. 

 It occurs on the top of walls, and in moss, near Penmanshiel ; 

 crawling among mosses on rocks in Oldcambus dean ; and among 

 porphyry rocks behind Wooler. My attention was called to this 

 circumstance by a recent notice of Professor Trail in the " Scottish 

 Naturalist." My record of it is contained in a Register of the 

 Periodical Phenomena of Plants and Animals, in the Eeport of 

 the Meeting of the British Association at Edinburgh, August 

 1850. It appeared March 12th 1849, and again December 31st 

 at Penmanshiel. I have no doubt there are other localities 

 among my notes. 



Lyngbya speoiosa, Carm. Mr Batters detected this among 

 some Algse that I sent from rock pools on the Grey-wacke coast 

 at Windilaws, east of Redheugh, Berwickshire. It is not in the 

 old lists. Mr G. T. Brady found it amongst X. Carmichaelii at 

 North Sunderland, Trans. Tynes. Nat. Field Club, iv. p. 314. 



LiNN^A BOEEALis. At Lougformacus a new locality for Linncea 

 horealis has been discovered by Mrs Captain Brown. It grows in 

 one of the strips of Scotch pine, which have been damaged and 

 thinned out by the great gale of October 14th 1881. It contains, 

 like many of the planted strips, much of the PyroU minor, a 

 likely accompaniment, as at Huntlywood, to the Linncea. There 

 are three large patches of the Linnsea, one of them considerably 



