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63. E. sigmtipennis, Boh. Bare. Gosforth in August, and 



Axwell in September. 



64. Eupteryx Strachydearum, Hardy. On the wild sage near 



Axwell, in extreme abundance during September. Mr. 

 Hardy found it on the same plant, and so late as Decem- 

 ber. It is a most active creature, and "very difficult to 

 secure, as it jumps out of the net and is away as soon as 

 ever you attempt to bottle it. 



Note. — Some few local species having occurred more abun- 

 dantly, may deserve a passing notice. 



Acocephalus bifasciatus, Linn. 



This elegant little creature, hitherto very rare, has this year 

 occurred in great abundance. I have found it at Gibside, Ax- 

 well, Heaton, Briar Dene, Hartley, and Gosforth. At the latter 

 place, on the 2nd of July, I found both sexes quite in profu- 

 sion, in an open place in the wood, where the soil was of a dry 

 heathy nature. An occasional male might be seen mounting a 

 culm of grass, but the females were always found at the very 

 roots of the herbage, and are by no means such good leapers as 

 their partners. The males were nearly all of the distinctly white 

 banded type, very few indeed being of the dark variety figured 

 by Curtis. The females vary from pale greyish-yellow to black- 

 ish-grey. 



Acocephalus agrestis, Fall. 



Exceedingly common, and variable, both in size and colouring. 

 In a low-lying pasture field, close to the water's edge, near Holy- 

 well, I found swarms of a small variety : males not more than 

 one line in length, and the females about one line and a half. 

 Most of the males were so thickly marked with brown as to 

 appear nearly black. On the margins of the lake at Gosforth 

 nearly white examples occur, and some of them fully tbree lines 

 long. In the rough herbage on the coast we have the same large 

 pale insect, but the head has become more blotched with black. 

 In the hedgerows, near Little Benton, we find a variety which 



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