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VANESSA URTIOE, VAR. CONNEXA, IN SCOTLAND. Robert Adkin. 

 Entomologist, vol. xxviii. p. 83 (March 1895). A specimen of this 

 variety reared in Sutherlandshire in the summer of 1894. 



ON ZYG^ENA EXULANS, AND VAR. SUBOCHRACEA, WHITE. By 

 W. H. Tugwell. Entomologist, vol. xxviii. pp. 8-n (January 1895). 

 This article is devoted to remarks on the status of the variety 

 subochracea of White, from Braemar. 



NOTE ON ARGYRESTHIA ILLUMINATELLA. J. W. Tutt. Ent. 

 Record, vol. v. p. 34 (February 1895). This note relates to Scottish 

 specimens. 



LATE NEST OF AVASPS. Mackenzie Partington. The Field, 8th 

 December 1894, p. 889. A wasp's nest found at Blairgowrie on 

 3oth November. 



AN OVERLOOKED RECORD OF THE OCCURRENCE OF THERMOBIA 



DOMESTICA (FURNORUM) IN BRITAIN. R. M'Lachlan. Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. (2), vol. vi. pp. 75-76 (March 1895). Refers to a record 

 published by James Simpson in the Proceedings of the Royal 

 Physical Society of Edinburgh for 1878. The insect was found in 

 a large baking establishment in Edinburgh. 



ON AN ABNORMAL CRAB (CANCER PAGURUS). By James R. 

 Tosh, M.A., B.Sc. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), vol. xv. pp. 245- 

 247 and fig. (March 1895). The specimen described was brought 

 to the St. Andrews Marine Laboratory by one of the fishermen in 

 June 1894. 



ON SOME NEW AND RARE CRUSTACEA FROM SCOTLAND. By 

 Thomas Scott, F.L.S. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), vol. xv. pp. 

 50-59, Plates V. and VI. (January 1895). Five species of Copepoda 

 new to science are described and figured, and one new to Britain. 



ON SOME ENTOMOSTRACA FROM CASTLE MILK, NEAR RUTHER- 

 GLEN. By Thomas Scott, F.L.S. Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, 

 vol. iv. (N. S.), part i. (1892-94), pp. 69-72. The material examined 

 contained 18 species representing 15 genera, and comprising 5 

 species of Ostracoda, 6 of Copepoda, and 7 of Cladocera. 



The (eighteenth) REPORT OF OBSERVATIONS OF INJURIOUS INSECTS 

 AND COMMON FARM PESTS, for 1894, by Miss E. A. Ormerod, is, 

 like its predecessors, full of information important in the first degree 

 to agriculture, but of interest also to all lovers of natural history. 

 Most of the observations are from localities in England, but the 

 following are from Scotland : Larvae of the Antler Moth (Chareas 

 graminis), very numerous, and hurtful to hill-pastures in the south 

 of Scotland in June and July ; so many of them were infested by 

 parasites that of numbers kept in confinement hardly any survived ; 

 Mites (Tyroglyphus longior, Gervais) in hay, reported from various 

 localities, sometimes in heaps in late autumn ; Currant Clearwing 



