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in 1893-1894. Cosmarium Archeri, R. and B., is referred, as a 

 variety, to C. cyniatopleunun, Nordst. ; Staurastrum rosteUum, R. and 

 B., to ,5". cosmospinosum (Borges.), W. and G. S. West ; and S. Far- 

 qi(harsonii, R. and B., as a variety, to .S. hibernicum. West. 



CURRENT LITERATURE. 



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

 History which have appeared during the Quarter July-September 1900. 



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

 possible. Contributions on the lines indicated will be most acceptable and 

 will bear the initials of the Contributor. The Editors will have access to the 

 sources of information undermentioned.] 



ZOOLOGY. 



CUCKOO IN THE SHETLANDS. T. Edmondston Saxby. Zoologist 

 (4), vol. iv. p. 426 (September 1900). Young bird caught on 8th 

 August in Unst, and others seen and heard many times during 

 the summer. 



OPAH AT THE SHETLANDS. T. Edmondston Saxby. Zoologist 

 (4), vol. iv. p. 434 (September 1900). Specimen caught at West 

 Voe, Dunrossness, on 2oth July. 



COLIAS EDUSA IN SCOTLAND. Percy C. Reid. The Field, yth 

 July 1900, p. 41. Specimens taken at Rannoch and in Ayrshire. 



XENOLECHIA ^ETHIOPS, WESTW., IN SCOTLAND. William Evans. 

 Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. xi. p. 159 (July 1900). Specimens taken 

 on the Pentland Hills (see "Annals," 1897, pp. 89-110), and on 5th 

 May this year near Midcalder. 



XENOLECHIA AITHIOPS, WESTW., AND ADELA CUPRELLA, THNB., 

 IN SCOTLAND. K. J. Morton. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. xi. p. 159 

 (July 1900). A specimen of X. aethiops taken near Carluke many 

 years ago, and also in the Edinburgh district, near Bavelaw, in May 

 1897; A. cuprella taken at Rowardennan, on Loch Lomond, in 

 May. 



DlPLODOMA MARGINEPUNCTELLA, STPH., IN SCOTLAND. William 



Evans. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), .vol. xi. p. 188 (August 1900). Draws 

 attention to a record of this species in the late Sir Thomas 

 Moncrieffe's list of the Lepidoptera of Moncrieffe Hill, Perthshire 

 ("Scottish Naturalist," vol. v. p. 24). 



NEUROPTERA COLLECTED IN THE UPPER PORTION OF STRATH- 

 GLASS IN 1899. By James J. F. X. King, F.E.S. -Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 (2), vol. xi. pp. 181-185 (August 1900). One hundred and eight 

 species are recorded in this paper, taken between i5th June and 

 25th August of the year stated. 



