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specimen marked " Tinwald Downs " (M'Nab), which brings 

 the species into Dumfriesshire. 



The Solway List of Water-beetles includes, then, about 

 i 20 species, which is rather more than half the total number 

 of species known in Great Britain. I have left Haliplus 

 fluviatilis and straitns standing as species, although I am 

 not altogether satisfied that they are really distinct from 

 H. ruficollis, De G. I have, however, come to the conclusion 

 that Hydrobius picicrus, Thorns., is a mere variety of //. 

 fuscipes, L. I have also neglected H. iimnaculatus, Gerh., 

 recently introduced as " a species or variety " to the British 

 List [Newbery, "EMM.," ser. 2, xviii. 4, 1907]. Of this 

 total I have taken I o I species in Kirkcudbrightshire, and 

 about 10 others recorded by Sharp and Lennon are from 

 the same county. 



(To be continued.} 



COLEOPTERA FROM MOLES' NESTS IN THE 

 SOUTH-EAST OF SCOTLAND. 



By Prof. T. HUDSON BEARE, B.Sc., F.R.S.E., F.E.S., 

 and WILLIAM EVANS, F.R.S.E. 



THE success which has recently attended the search for 

 Beetles in moles' nests in the south of England, induced us 

 a year ago to see what this same method of collecting would 

 produce north of the Tweed. Accordingly, we made a 

 beginning on iQth February 1908, and in the course of the 

 past twelve months a hundred moles' nests, all seemingly in 

 use, have been examined in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh. 

 A record was kept of the beetles found in each, and it is 

 here reproduced in the hope that the particulars may be 

 of interest to Coleopterists working at this subject. The 

 observations were made in the months of February, March, 

 April, May, and November 1908, and January and Febru- 

 ary 1909. We wish now that they had been continued 

 throughout the year. 



Of the 100 nests examined, 29 did not yield any Beetles 

 or their larvae, while 12 contained larvae only. In the re- 



