CURRENT LITERATURE 245 



Reports the species as not uncommon, on the first day of August, 

 near a stream running into the sea between Staffin and Portrigh 

 (Portree). Five other species of Butterflies are mentioned, one 

 from the Pass of Brander, near Loch Awe. 



EXTRAORDINARY ABUNDANCE OF MACROGLOSSA STELLATARUM 

 (at Galashiels). James C. Haggart. Entomologist, vol. xxxii. p. 187 

 (July 1899). 



NOTES ON THE ADDITIONS TO THE BRITISH LIST OF COLEOPTERA 

 SINCE CANON FOWLER'S "COLEOPTERA OF THE BRITISH ISLES" 

 (continued}. By Horace Donisthorpe, F.Z.S., F.E.S. Ent. Record, 

 vol. xi. pp. 184-186 and 216, 217 (July and August 1899). The 

 following species and localities are given: Helophorus obscurus, 

 ab. Shetlandicus, Kuwert, Shetland Isles; H. griseus ab. bulbipalpis, 

 Kuwert, Shetlands; Quedius riparius, Kelln., Beauly, Inverness; and 

 Telephorus figuratus, ab. cruachanus, Chitty, near Ben Cruachan. 



ABERDEENSHIRE FORM OF TRICHIURA CRAT^GI. Arthur Home, 

 F.E.S. Ent. Record, vol. xi. p. 191 (July 1899). A note describing 

 the northern variety of this insect. 



COLEOPTERA IN SCOTLAND. Theodore Wood. Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 (2), vol. x. p. 214 (September 1899). Nine species are referred to. 



QUEDIUS TRISTIS, GRAV., IN SCOTLAND. T. Hudson Beare. 

 Ent. Record, vol. xi. p. 242 (September 1899). Found in numbers 

 under stones on Arthur's Seat and at North Queensferry in July 

 1899. 



Two ADDITIONAL BRITISH SPECIES OF ANDRENA. By Edward 

 Saunders, F.L.S. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. x. pp. 154, 155 (July 

 1899). One of the species referred to is A. ruficrus, Nyl., and the 

 specimens are those recorded in the Annals by Mr. Evans (see p. 



PHILOPOTAMUS MONTANUS, VAR. CHRYSOPTERUS, ON THE PENT- 

 LAND HILLS. Kenneth J. Morton. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. x. 

 p. 157 (July 1899). Two examples taken at a streamlet near the 

 source of the Logan Burn on 1 7th April. 



NOTES ON ^ESCHNA OERULEA, AND SOMATOCHLORA ARCTICA 



AND METALLICA, IN INVERNESS-SHIRE. By JamCS J. F. X. King, 



F.E.S. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. x. p. 206 (September 1899). 



BOTANY. ; 



CRITICAL NOTES ON SOME SPECIES OF CERASTIUM. By Frederic 

 N. Williams, F.L.S. Jonrn. Bot., 1899, pp. 310-315. The only 

 Scotch Cerastium referred to is C. Edmonstoni (H. C. Watson, as 

 variety, Murbeck and Ostfeld, as species), which is regarded as 

 identical with C. arcticum. 



ALSINE IN THE BRITISH FLORA. By W. P. Hiern, M.A., F.L.S. 

 Journ. Bot., 1899, pp. 317-322. Deals with nomenclature, but the 



