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a peat bog near Loch Glow on the Cleish Hills, Kinross-shire (Forth 

 area) ; and I find another among some insects collected by Mr. R. 

 Godfrey at Loch Awe, Argyll, last June. Mr. E. Saunders has seen 

 the specimens and confirms my identification. The species has 

 been taken in some numbers near Ballinluig, by Mr. T. M'Gregor, 

 as recorded in this magazine for 1895, and it seems also to have 

 occurred at Aviemore and Rannoch and one or two other localities in 

 the north of Scotland. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Rhyparoehromus dilatatus, H. Schf., in Perthshire. Among 

 some insects which I collected in Glen Farg, Perthshire, in 

 September 1899, there is a specimen (named for me by Mr. E. 

 Saunders) of this plant-bug. It seems to be an addition to the list 

 of Scottish Hemiptera-Heteroptera, and in England the recorded 

 localities for it do not extend farther north than Norfolk. WILLIAM 

 EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Bombus soroensis, Fab., in Lanarkshire. On iSth and 

 September I observed a number of males and a few workers of a 

 bee which seemed new to me, visiting marsh-thistle flowers in a 

 ravine among the hills near Elvanfoot, Lanarkshire. I thought of 

 B. soroensis, and Mr. E. Saunders, to whom I have submitted 

 specimens, says they are referable to that form. I can find no 

 previous record of it from Scotland. I may add that Bombus 

 jonellus, Kby., was common at heather on the Elvanfoot hills during 

 the greater part of the month. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Corduleg-aster annulatus on the summit of Beinn Mhor, Mull. 



On the 4th of June I made the ascent of Beinn Mhor, in the 

 island of Mull, in company with Mr. A. H. Pawson, F.L.S. When at 

 about Soo feet altitude we captured a large dragon-fly, which I sent 

 to Mr. John Waddington of Leeds, who informs me that it is 

 Cordulegaster annulatus. When at the actual summit of the 

 mountain I noted insects flying round and above the cairn, of 

 various orders, and at least a dozen or more species, including a 

 large dragon-fly, apparently in fact almost certainly of the same 

 species as the one I took on the slope. The day was fine and 

 warm, of brilliant sunshine. W. DENISON ROEBUCK, Leeds. 



BOTANICAL NOTES AND NEWS. 



Rubus argentatus, P.J. Mueller, in Scotland. Both Dr. Focke 

 and the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers agree in naming as above a Bramble 

 I gathered near Stranraer in Wigtownshire in 1898. It is the first 

 Scottish specimen that Mr. Rogers has seen. G. CLARIDGE DRUCE. 



