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Agathidium variant, Beck.-- Dalmeny, January 1899, one. A. 

 marginatum, Sturm. Luffness, August 1896, one. 



Necrodes litforalis, L. Brodick, Arran, April 1895. 



Silpha nigrita, Cr. Doune (Forth), May 1889; Kincraig and 

 Cromdale (Moray) ; and Arran. S. dispur, Hbst. Kincraig, 

 several. 



Sph&rites glabratus, F. Fearnan, Loch Tay, May 1892, one. 



Hister sitccicola, Thorns., and H. neglectus, Germ. Aberfoyle (Forth), 

 April 1896. H. cadavcrimts, Hoff. Cromdale; Brodick. 



Onthophilus striatns, F. Fearnan (Tay) ; Callander, etc. 



Anatis ocellata, L. Leven (Forth), August 1893, one; Blair- 

 Atholl. 



Halyzia i^-guttata, L. Aviemore, August 1893; fairly common in 

 Forth. 



Nitidula bipustulata, L. Aberfoyle (Forth), May 1897. 



Omosila colon, L. Luffness (Forth), July 1898. O. discoidea, F. 

 Aberdour, Fife, one under rotting seaweed, February 1899. 



Rhizophagns perforatus, Er. Rosslyn, October 1896; Morningside, 

 July 1897. Recorded from East Lothian by Sir A. Buchan- 

 Hepburn. 



Attegenus pellio, L. Leven (Fife), August 1893, one. 



Byrrhus dorsalis, F. Fearnan (Tay), May 1892 ; Hillend Hill, 

 Pentlands, April 1896. 



Heterocenis feinoralis, Kies. Common in tiny burrows in firm 

 muddy sand at the head of Aberlady Bay. In August 1896 I 

 found them in all stages (larva, pupa, and imago) on the same 

 day. The spot, which is covered more or less with a thin 

 growth of green seaweed {Enteroinorpha compressa), and 

 thousands of tiny molluscs (Hydrobia ulviz), is under water for 

 some time twice a day during spring tides. Species determined 

 for me by Dr. Sharp. 



Sinodendron cylindricum, L. In August 1889 I took several 

 examples of this fine beetle at Kincraig, Inverness-shire. 



Aphodius fossor, L. Fearnan, Loch Tay, May 1892, one $. A. 

 cons tans, Duft. Aberfoyle, in cow-dung, April 1896 and May 

 1897, a good many. Recorded from East Lothian by Sir A. 

 Buchan- Hepburn. A. tessulatus, Payk. Inverkeithing, Fife, 

 October 1896; Kirknewton, Midlothian: Kincraig (Moray), 

 1889. A. conspurcatus, L. Bavelaw, Midlothian, March 1893, 

 one ; Kincraig and Aviemore. 



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