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another Cephalopod of which there is only a single record in the 

 above-mentioned "Fauna," namely the old one of Dr. M'Bain from 

 Kirkcaldy Bay. Mr. T. Scott, however, mentions in the " Annals " 

 for 1893 (p. 50) six occasions on which the species has been obtained 

 by him at trawling stations in the Firth of Forth, so that it is probably 

 not uncommon. The specimens I saw did not differ greatly in size. 

 One measured fully 9 inches, excluding the arms (14^-, including 

 them), and weighed nearly 2\ Ibs. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Amara alpina, f,, and other Insects in " East Perth. "- 



While staying at Fenderbridge, near the foot of Glen Tilt, Perthshire, 

 last September, I collected a number of Coleoptera and other insects, 

 among them being three specimens two <$ 's, from one of which 

 the species has been kindly determined for me by the Rev. A. 

 Thornley, and a 9 of the rare Amara alpina, F., a beetle which, I 

 believe, has been recorded in this country only from Rannoch and 

 Braemar. They were found on 8th and iyth September under 

 stones embedded in a peaty soil, at a height of fully 1700 feet, on a 

 hill a few miles up Glen Tilt. The same spot yielded a good many 

 Cymindis raporariorum^ Pterostichus cethiops^ Harpahis latus^ etc., 

 and on a moor near the foot of Ben-a-ghlo I took Carabus arvensis^ 

 Miscodera arctica, and Harpalus quadripunctatus, Dej. 1 (one speci- 

 men). On the summit of Carn Liath, within a few feet of the 

 cairn (3193 feet), two specimens of Otiorrhynchus maurus occurred 

 under a stone, and along with them an example of the commoner 

 O. blandus, a beetle I had found in some abundance a year before 

 in a very different locality, namely, on the Isle of May, at the 

 mouth of the Firth of Forth. Near the foot of Carn Liath and 

 Ben-a-ghlo, Aphodius foctidus was abundant in sheep's dung. Among 

 shingle on the north bank of the Garry, below Blair Atholl, a few 

 Cocdnella ^-pimctata were secured on 9th September. I have not 

 yet examined the Hemiptera very carefully, but among them are 

 Zicrona ccerulea (one specimen from moor beyond Kirkton of Lude), 

 and a number of Cyrtorrhiints caricis, Fall, (from margin of a loch 

 a few miles east of Fenderbridge), a species I do not see in Mr. 

 M'Gregor's list of Perthshire Hemiptera as published in the 

 "Transactions of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science," vol. ii. 

 p. 10. At the same loch a good Caddis-fly (Limnophilus borealis) 

 was abundant on yth September (see separate note by Mr. K. J. 

 Morton, who identified this for me). The Plume-moth, Alucita 

 hexadadyla ( polydactyld) was common in cottages and out- 

 houses at Fenderbridge, and I noticed one in the station at Blair 

 Atholl. As late as 6th September a few Erebia cethiops and a single 

 Lyctzna artaxerxes, all more or less worn of course, were still on the 



1 These are not noted as having occurred in "Tay" in Sharp's " Coleoptera 

 of Scotland." 



