60 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



QUAIL (CoruRNix COMMUNIS) IN AYRSHIRE AND FIFE. John 

 Paterson. The Glasgow Naturalist, vol. i. pt. iv. (Sept. 1909), p. 

 145. A note on the occurrence of this species near Ayr and at Crail. 



RUFF, SPOTTED REDSHANK, AND BLACK-TAILED GODWIT IN 

 EAST RENFREW. John Robertson. The Glasgow Naturalist, vol. i. 

 pt. iv. (Sept. 1909), p. 146. Notes on the occurrence of these 

 species in August and September 1909. 



THE BAR-TAILED GODWIT (LIMOSA LAPPONICA) IN EAST REN- 

 FREW. John Robertson. The Glasgow Naturalist, vol. ii. No. i 

 (Nov. 1909). Specimen seen in September 1909 at Waulkmill 

 Glen Dam. 



SHORT SUN-FISH (ORTHAGORISCUS MOLA) IN AYRSHIRE WATERS. 

 John Paterson. The Glasgow Naturalist, vol. ii. No. i (Nov. 1909), 

 p. 30. A specimen, measuring 4 feet long by 5 feet 3 inches, 

 captured in South Ayrshire waters in October 1909. 



NOTES FROM INVERNESS-SHIRE, 1909. R. Meldola. Entomologist, 

 November 1909, pp. 283-284. Notes on twenty species of Lepi- 

 doptera taken at Onich in August. 



A SPECIES OF THE NOCTUID^E NEW TO SCIENCE. Richard 

 South. Entomologist, October 1909, p. 258. This species, supposed 

 to be new, but as yet undescribed, was taken by Mr. Esson at sugar, 

 on a fir-tree near Aberdeen. 



EVETRIA (RETINIA) RESINELLA, L., CAPTURED IN THE IMAGINAL 

 STATE. Eustace R. Bankes. Ent. Mo. Mag., November 1909, 

 p. 259. Records several specimens taken in Rothiemurchus Forest, 

 Inverness-shire, June 1907 and 1908. 



THREE NEW BRITISH COLEOPTERA. Norman H. Joy, M.R.C.S., 

 F.E.S. Ent. Mo. Mag., December 1909, pp. 268 and 269. The 

 species are Epipeda nigricans, Thorns., and Pityogenes trepanatus, 

 Noerdl., taken at Blair Atholl, and Lathrobium dilutum, Erichs, from 

 the side of Loch Ericht and the river Truim, at Dalwhinnie. 



SOME CRITICAL REMARKS ON THE GENUS RABOCERUS, MUL- 

 SANT : WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES. By David Sharp, 

 M.A., F.R.S. Ent. Mo. Mag., November 1909, pp. 245-247. R. 

 bishopi described as a new species, from Grantown, Elginshire. 



A FIFTH PROTEINUS IN BRITAIN. David Sharp, M.A., F.R.S. 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., December 1909, pp. 267-268. P. crenulatus, 

 Pandelle, taken at Nethy Bridge in 1906 and 1907. 



MYRMECOPHILOUS NOTES FOR 1909. H. St. J. K. Donis- 

 thorpe, F.Z.S., F.E.S. Ent. Record, Nov. 1909, p. 257. Nests of 

 Formica rufa race pratensis, Forel, described from Nethy Bridge, with 

 a list of their coleopterous inmates. 



