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Hawk-moths in Moray. A larva of the Death's-head Moth, 

 Manduca (Acherontia) atropos, L., almost full grown, was found on 

 4th September last by a woman working in the garden at Earnside, 

 near Forres. Not knowing what to do with it, she put it into boil- 

 ing water ! Another larva of the same moth was found at Alves, 

 which is not far from Earnside, on 8th September, by Mr. Scott, 

 carpenter. A fine specimen of the Convolvulus Hawk -moth, 

 Phlegethontius (Sphinx] convolvuli, L., was taken by Mr. Gill on 8th 

 September at Bishopmill, near Elgin. HENRY H. BROWN, Rosefield, 

 Elgin. 



Humming-bird Hawk-moth in Moray. In addition to the 

 Scottish records noted in the July number, it should be mentioned 

 that Mr. Gordon Taylor captured a specimen of this moth (Macro- 

 glossa stellatarum) at Bishopmill, near Elgin, about 2oth June. 

 HENRY H. BROWN, Rosefield, Elgin. 



Stenhelia blanehardi in the Firth of Forth. I was examining 

 recently a small sample of dredged material from the "Fluke Hole" 

 (off St. Monan's), Firth of Forth, collected in 1896. Several 

 interesting, though familiar, Crustaceans were observed, and amongst 

 them was this Copepod. Stenhelia blanehardi (T. and A. Scott) 

 was obtained amongst some material dredged off Arisaig, Argyll- 

 shire, in 1892, and was described and figured in the "Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History" for November 1895. So far as I 

 know, the present is the only other occasion on which this species 

 has been observed. It is quite a distinct species : the secondary 

 branches of the fifth pair of thoracic feet in the female possess at 

 the apex a lateral process exteriorly that assumes a hook-like form, 

 and it is the only Stenhelia I am acquainted with in which the 

 secondary branches of the fifth feet are so modified. T. SCOTT, 

 Aberdeen. 



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Notes on the Flora of Wigtownshire. As supplementary to 

 Mr. G. C. Druce's paper on the 'Flora of Wigtownshire ' in "Annals 

 of Scottish Natural History " for January 1899, and to Professor Trail's 

 notes thereon, I would desire to add the following : Rubus nessensis, 

 Anders., Ruln/s Scheutzii, Lind., and Rubus Selmeri, Lind., are 

 additional new records for Wigtownshire, i.e. additional to my list. 

 Daucus maritima = gummifer, Lam., likely is from Hooker and 

 Arnott's " British Flora," but probably a mistake. Saxifraga 

 oppositifolia is in 72 (Gray Mare's Tail) but not in 74. Inula 

 Helenium is an outcast or escape. Pitlmonaria ojficinalis has no 

 record for 74. Without doubt both Sedum rupestre and Carex 

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