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Leptopsyllus minor, T. and A. Scott, in the Clyde District. 



This slender and minute Copepod was obtained in the same 

 localities as the Huntemannia. The species was first taken between 

 tide -marks at Musselburgh, Firth of Forth, and described and 

 figured in the "Annals of Scottish Natural History" for January 

 1895. It has not been observed anywhere else since that time, 

 except the two places on the Clyde now referred to. The genus is 

 distinguished by the peculiar form of the fifth thoracic feet of the 

 female. Three species have been recognised, viz. Leptopsyllus 

 robertsoni, L. intermedius, and the one now added to the Clyde 

 fauna L. minor. Leptopsyllus minor measures scarcely the -^th 

 of an inch in length, and is so slender as to appear, at first sight, like 

 a minute fragment of fibre. The female carries several (at least 3 

 or 4) large eggs arranged in a line, end to end. T. SCOTT, Aberdeen. 

 The Humming-bird Hawk-moth in the Edinburgh District. 

 The Humming-bird Hawk-moth (Macroglossa stellatarum} has been 

 more abundant in this neighbourhood this summer than I have ever 

 seen it before. The first I heard of was taken in Peeblesshire on 

 ist June, and on the 3rd my friend Mr. P. H. Grimshaw captured 

 one at wild gaxlic(AMium ursinuni) in Roslin Glen. On the loth 

 I observed quite a number certainly not less than fifteen to twenty 

 on the Fife coast between Burntisland and Kinghorn. Two which 

 I netted were hovering over flowering patches of Lotus corniculatus 

 on a sunny bank, but most of them were flying about the cliffs and 

 rocky places where they could not readily be reached. Several times 

 three, and once four, were in view at the same moment. After 4 P.M. 

 they gradually disappeared, the last being seen shortly after 6 o'clock. 

 The only flowers besides the Lotus that I saw them visit were 

 Astragalus hypoglottis and Salvia verbenaca. The next example 

 I saw was on the Isle of May on the i5th. On the i6th I again 

 met with the insect, this time between Longniddry and Aberlady. 

 They were flying about the high roadside wall at intervals for a 

 distance of two miles ; and at one place I caught six without moving 

 more than 100 yards. Altogether, I must have seen quite. thirty on 

 this occasion. The same day one was seen at Craiglockhart. In the 

 forenoon of the i gth I noticed three, if not four, on Blackford Hill, 

 and in the afternoon I found numbers careering about the rocks on 

 Arthur's Seat. A similar outburst of this species occurred here 

 thirty years ago (1868-1870). WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Humming-bird Hawk-moth in the Upper Clyde. This season, 

 since the beginning of June, the Humming-bird Hawk-moth (Macro- 

 glossa stellatarum} has been much in evidence. Individuals of this 

 species were attracted in large numbers to a Rhododendron when in 

 full bloom, in front of the Manse, where their characteristic move- 

 ments were, for over a week, an interesting and attractive sight. 

 J. D. W. GIBSON, Carmichael Manse, Thankerton. 



