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44. Issus coleopteratus, Fab. Larval form only taken. Beaten 



out of bushes at Gosforth, in May. 



45. Ulopa obtecta, Fab. Roots of heath. Occurs not uncom- 



monly at Gosforth, in September and October. It is a 

 sluggish creature, and leaps as if its head was too heavy 

 for its heels. 



46. Eupelix cuspidata, Fab. Apparently rare. Amongst cut 



grass at Gosforth, in July. I found the larva in Novem- 

 ber, at the roots of herbage on the sea-banks, near Hartley. 



47. Idiocerus varius, Germ. Males and females in plenty, on 



the willows by the Derwent side, near Axwell Park, in 

 June. 



48. Pediopsis virescens, Germ. Same locality as the preceding, 



but much more rarely. June. 



49. P. scutellatus, Boh. Two males and two females, shaken 



out of recently cut grass at Heaton, in August. They 

 were accompanied by a queer looking creature, which I 

 take to be the larva, or pupa. It is ob-conical, yellow, 

 maculated on head, body, and legs with brown ; sparsely 

 covered with hairs, which spring from little tubercles, 

 and which are arranged in three rows on each side of the 

 abdomen ; the abdomen is triangular, compressed, each 

 segment produced into a strong tooth above. 

 Both specimens were thickly covered by small black pellets, 

 matted together with a thready substance, and which I am in- 

 clined to think was composed of their own excrement. 



50. Iassus socialis, Flor. Exceedingly abundant in grassy 



places during August and September. I have captured 

 it at Axwell, Gosforth, Little Benton, &c. 



51. I. abdominalis, Fab. Of rare occurrence. I have examples 



from Axwell, Gosforth, and Seghill, taken in July and 

 August. 



52. /. vitripennis, Flor. A single specimen, taken near Whit- 



ley, in June. 



