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south of Aberdeen in Nigg, and to the north within the city near 

 Don Street Station, and at Parkhill six miles out. Of P. somniferum 

 only a few have appeared. P. dubium has been plentiful and very 

 variable in size ; P. Argemone has occurred in two or three places ; 

 and P. Rlmas has been rather common, a number of plants showing 

 the red hairs on the flower-stalk distinctive of the variety Pryorii, 

 Druce. This character seems to vary, some stems of the same in- 

 dividual having the hairs markedly coloured, while others bore 

 almost colourless hairs only. JAMES W. H. TRAIL. 



CURRENT LITERATURE. 



The Titles and Purport of Papers and Notes relating to Scottish Natural 

 History which have appeared during the Quarter July-September 1910. 



[The Editors desire assistance to enable them to make this Section as complete as 

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ZOOLOGY. 



COMMON SHREW ON SCOTCH ISLANDS. G. E. H. Barrett- 

 Hamilton, Zoologist, June 1910, p. 267. States that this Shrew is 

 common on many of the Inner Hebrides, such as Islay and Jura, 

 but absent from the Outer Hebrides and the Orkneys. 



A VARIETY OF THE GANNET (SULA BASSANA). R. Fortune, 

 Zoologist, September 1910, p. 340. Seen at the Bass Rock. 



ALBINO RINGED PLOVER IN ORKNEY. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, The 

 Field, Sept. 17, 1910, p. 551. Specimen obtained in August near 

 Kirkwall. 



SOME INTERESTING BRITISH INSECTS (III.). G. C. Champion 

 and R. W. Lloyd, F.E.S., Ent. Mo. Mag., September 1910, pp, 203- 

 205 and pi. iv. Salpingus bishopi, Sharp, Eudectus whitei, Sharp, 

 and Carida affinis, Payk., are figured and recorded from Scottish 

 localities. 



COLEOPTERA AT NEWCASTLETON, ETC., IN 1909. Lewis Barton, 



Ent. Mo. Mag., August 1910, pp. 189-190. Sixteen species taken 

 in June. 



A REVISION OF THE BRITISH SPECIES OF PTENIDIUM, ERICHSON. 

 H. Britten, F.E.S., and E. A. Newbery, Ent. Mo. Mag., August 

 1910, pp. 178-183. P. intermedium, Wank., and fuscicorne, Erichs., 

 are recorded as Scottish. 



PORPHYROPS NASUTA, FALL., AND P. ELEGANTULA, Me., IN 



PERTHSHIRE. A. E. J. Carter, Ent. Mo. Mag., August 1910, pp. 

 193-194. A single male of P. nasuta and several specimens of P. 

 elegantula taken at Clunin Loch, near Blairgowrie, on i3th June 1910. 



