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A COMPARATIVE SKETCH OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF ELGIN AND 

 SURREY. By Henry H. Brown. Trans. Northern Assoc. of Literary 

 and Scientific Societies, vol. ii. part ii. (1894), pp. 13-16. 



THE TYPICAL EREBIA EPIPHRON IN SCOTLAND. Chas. G. 

 Barrett. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. v. p. 211 (September 1894). 

 Note on a specimen recently obtained by Mr. Salvage in Sutherland- 

 shire. 



OCCURRENCE OF THE YELLOW MALE OF HEPIALUS HUMULI. 

 L., IN LANARKSHIRE. Kenneth J. Morton. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), 

 vol. v. p. 212 (September 1894). Specimen captured on iSth July 

 in a small patch of bog land in South Lanarkshire, at an elevation 

 of between 700 and 800 feet. 



CIRRHGEDIA XERAMPELINA IN AYRSHIRE. William C. S. 

 Ferguson. Entomologist, vol. xxvii. p. 273 (September 1894). One 

 specimen bred from a larva taken at Glencoy on 2oth April. 

 Specimens also taken of Nisoniades tages, Plusia bractea, Strenia 

 clathrata, and Euclidia glyphica. 



ABUNDANCE OF CATERPILLARS OF THE ANTLER MOTH, 

 CHAR^AS GRAMINIS, LINN., IN THE SOUTH OF SCOTLAND. By 

 Eleanor A. Ormerod, F.E.S. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. v. pp. 169- 

 171 (August 1894). In this paper it is stated that considerable 

 damage has been caused by these caterpillars to the grasses on the 

 hill pastures in the western part of Roxburghshire and the adjoining 

 counties of Dumfries and Selkirk. A short account is given of its 

 history as an agricultural pest. 



A SECOND HUNDRED NEW BRITISH SPECIES OF DIPTERA 

 (continued). G. H. Verrall. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. v. pp. 145-146 

 (July 1894). A number of Scottish records are included in this 

 paper. 



A LIST OF SPIDERS (ARANEIDEA) COLLECTED IN THE NEIGHBOUR- 

 HOOD OF EDINBURGH. By George H. Carpenter, B.Sc., and William 

 Evans, F.R.S.E. Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc., vol. xii. part ii. (1893-94), 

 pp. 527-588, Plate XII. In this paper 175 species are recorded, 

 including several new to Scotland, and one new to science. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPIDER [DICTYNA ARENICOLA] FROM 

 EAST LOTHIAN. By the Rev. O. P. Cambridge, M.A., F.R.S. 

 Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin., vol. xii. part ii. (1893-94), Appendix, pp. 

 589-590, Plate XII. 



THE LAND AND FRESH-WATER CRUSTACEA OF THE DISTRICT 

 AROUND EDINBURGH. PART III. THE CLADOCERA. By Thomas 

 Scott, F.L.S. Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin., vol. xii. part ii. (1893-94), 

 pp. 362-377. The species mentioned are twenty-nine in number, and 

 belong to twenty-two genera. A list is given of twelve Scottish species 

 not yet observed in the district dealt with. 



