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also measured the specimen, with the following results : 

 Length from snout to tip of tail, in a straight line, i 3 feet 

 iCHj inches; length of tail, 6 feet 11 inches; colour, light 

 bluish slate ; sex, male ; pupil of eye elongated. 



[The only previous occurrence in the Firth of Forth known 

 to us is that of a " fine specimen " captured in Largo Bay in 

 August 1842 ("Nat. Lib. Brit. Fishes," ii. p. 313). EDS.] 



DIPTERA SCOTICA: II. INVERNESS-SHIRE. 

 By PERCY H. GRIMSHAW, F.E.S. 



THE remarks made by me in the first two paragraphs of the 

 first paper of this series ("Annals," 1899, pp. 84-85) will 

 apply equally to the present contribution. In presenting 

 this second instalment, I would again draw attention to the 

 great paucity of information concerning the distribution of 

 Diptera in Scotland, this being especially shown forth by the 

 fact that I have been unable to find, after careful search, 



