ZOOLOGICAL NOTES 55 



in the July 1899 number of this journal. -- WILLIAM EVANS, 

 Edinburgh. 



Sirex juveneus, Linn., in Moray. A female of this Saw-fly was 

 picked up on i3th September last by a workman engaged near the 

 harbour at Hopeman. A foreign ship was in the harbour, and the 

 finder thought the insect had flown from the vessel. This seems 

 likely, as Hopeman is not a well- wooded locality. HENRY H. 

 BROWN, Elgin. 



Sirex juveneus in Dalmeny Woods. This wood-boring insect, 

 which is evidently extending its range in Scotland, made its appear- 

 ance in considerable numbers among some ripe Scotch fir in the 

 Warrens plantation, Dalmeny Park, in the autumn of 1899. The 

 borings were not noticed until the trees were felled, and the insect 

 itself was not got until the wood was being cut up. Large numbers 

 of this Sirex were then brought to light, in all stages of development. 

 The female insect was much more common than the male, which is 

 distinguished by its smaller size and red abdominal band. In eating 

 its way out the insect makes a formidable curved tunnel in the wood, 

 generally about 5 inches long, and of the diameter of a pencil. Sirex 

 juveneus has not previously been recorded in Linlithgowshire. - 

 CHARLES CAMPBELL, Dalmeny Park. 



Sirex gigas in Forfarshire. I beg to inform you of an 

 occurrence of Sirex gigas at Craigendowie, in the parish of Lethnot, 

 Forfarshire, on nth August last. A schoolboy who had been 

 loading fire-wood chiefly larch saw two specimens, which seemed 

 to rise from the timber. One of these a female he brought me ; 

 the other was permitted to escape. Not having seen the insect 

 before, I sent it to Dr. T. F. Dewar, B.Sc., Arbroath, who was kind 

 enough to identify it for me. I have since thought that as there 

 were, about two years ago, extensive structural alterations on a farm- 

 steading about a mile away, the insects may have been brought to 

 the district in the larval state in the timber required then. T. GRAY 

 PHILIP, Edinburgh. 



Boreus hiemalis (Z.), in Lanarkshire. On and December 

 1899, while searching for spiders in Braidwood Glen, near Carluke, 

 Lanarkshire, I found a female of this odd -looking Neuropterous 

 insect. So far as I can discover, there is no previous record of the 

 species for the Clyde area. In addition to the Scottish occurrences 

 mentioned in my note in the "Annals" for 1897 (p. 49), a female 

 was taken at Clova, Forfarshire, in April 1895 ("Ent. Mo. Mag." (2), 

 vol. vi. p. 240). The first Scottish record of the insect appears to 

 be that for Berwickshire, by the late James Hardy of Oldcambus, in 

 "The Zoologist" (1848), p. 2175. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



