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sparingly on the Pentlands seventy years ago. C. nitens, L., 

 is also still to be found on the Pentlands and adjoining moors, 

 where I have met with it on several occasions (Bavelaw Moss, 

 April 1885 and 3oth March 1896; Bonaly Hill, May 1896), 

 and I once found pieces of the elytra in the Kestrel's " pellet " 

 on Dalmahoy Crags. Mr. Eagle Clarke tells me he captured a 

 specimen on the path between Bonaly and Glencorse on ist 

 May 1892. 



Elaphrus uliginosus, F. One taken near Aviemore, Moray Area, 

 May ^893. E. lapponicus, Gyll. Several from hill west of 

 Fearnan, Loch Tay, 4th May 1892. 



Harpalus rubripes, Duft. Aberdour, Fife, April 1893, nine speci- 

 mens. H. quadripunctatus, Dej. One from near foot of 

 Ben-a-ghlo, September 1898. 



Anisodactylus binotatus, F. Aberfoyle, Upper Forth, May 1897, a 

 single example. 



Pterostichus striola, F. Brodick, Arran, April 1895, several. 



Amara consularis, Duft. In July 1890 I took three examples in 

 the neighbourhood of Peebles. It seems to be a rare species in 

 Scotland. A. alpina, F. In last year's volume of this journal 

 (p. 54, 1899) I recorded the capture of two c?s and a $ of this 

 rare beetle on a hill up Glen Tilt, Perthshire, in September 1 898. 1 

 Besides the Rannoch and Braemar localities to which I alluded, 

 the species has also occurred near Aviemore (" Ent. Mo. Mag.," 

 1874, p. 64, etc.). A. similata, Gyll. Mr. Thornley reports 

 two examples of this form among my captures, both taken in 

 Fife in 1893 one at Aberdour in April, the other near Leven 

 in August. The only previous Scottish record seems to be that 

 of Messrs. Lennon and Douglas for the Solway Area (" Annals," 

 1892, p. 108). 



Bembidium continuum, Steph. Half a dozen along with Cillenus 

 lateralis under stones at the mouth of the Esk, Musselburgh, 

 October 1899. 



Dromius melanocephalus, Dej. A few examples from near Aberlady 

 (May 1890 and September 1893), Mortonhall, March 1896, 

 and Hillend, near Edinburgh, April 1896. Sir A. Buchan- 

 Hepburn recorded it for " Forth " in " Scottish Naturalist," iv. 

 p. 248. A. nigriventris, Thorns. Is not uncommon in the 

 Edinburgh district. 



1 In the same note I recorded a few other beetles got in the Glen Tilt district 

 of Perthshire in September 1898, namely Carabits ai~vensis, Miscordera 

 arctica, Harpalus qitadripimctatus, H. latits, Pterostichus Gthiops, Cymindis 

 vaporariorum , Aphodius fa'fidus, Otiorrkynckus maitnts, and 0. blandits ; also 

 Coccinella ^-punctata from banks of the Garry below Blair-Atholl. 



