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Bay. They were seen off the pier, and the railway manager stirred 

 up the zeal of the fishermen to capture them. Although the true 

 Smelt is said to have been captured in the vicinity, there is no 

 fishery, nor are we satisfied that those seen are other than the 

 Hebridal or Atherine. We should be glad of fuller information as 

 to this. AV. ANDERSON SMITH, Ledaig. 



Electric Ray on the East Coast of Scotland. In referring to a 

 specimen of Torpedo nobiliana caught sixteen miles off Wick on the 

 27th December of last year ("Annals," 1895, p. 127) as the first 

 undoubted specimen for our East Coast so far as he could ascertain, 

 Mr. Sim seems to have overlooked the fact that an example of 

 this species is recorded by Prof. Cossar Ewart in the report of the 

 Scottish Fishery Board for 1883, p. 79, as having been caught in 

 January of that year in the same neighbourhood (Lybster). This 

 specimen was presented by the Fishery Board to the Museum of 

 Science and Art in Edinburgh, and has been ever since exhibited in 

 the British Collection there. R. H. TRAQUAIR. 



Geotrupes typhoeus, L., in Arran. This fine beetle does not 

 find a place in Dr. Sharp's " Coleoptera of Scotland " (" Scot. Nat.," 

 1872, et seg.}, and Canon Fowler in his "Coleoptera of the British 

 Islands (vol. iv., 1889, p. 42) says, " Not recorded from the extreme 

 northern counties of England, or from Scotland." It had, however, 

 as pointed out by Messrs. Lennon and Douglas when recording in 

 the " Annals " for April 1892 the capture of a male near Orchardton, 

 Kirkcudbrightshire, been put on the Scottish list many years ago. 

 They refer us to " Murray's Catalogue," but the original record 

 appears to be contained in the " Addenda," at page 339 of Wilson 

 and Duncan's " Entomologia Edinensis" (1834), where the species 

 is stated to have been taken in Forfarshire by the Misses Lyall. I 

 have now the satisfaction of recording its occurrence in the island of 

 Arran, at the mouth of the Clyde, where I obtained three two 

 males and a female on the 24th April last (1895). The exact 

 locality in which they were found is the heathery moor on the left- 

 hand side of the main road going from Brodick to Lamlash. 

 WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Additions to a List of the Maero-Lepidoptera of Ardelaeh, 

 Nairnshire. The following notes are supplementary to my list of 

 the Macro-Lepidoptera found in the parish of Ardelaeh and pub- 

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

 1894 : Argynnis Selene Not so abundant as its sister Euphrosyne, 

 whose flight is about over before Selene makes its appearance, but 

 the butterflies are so much alike that the entomologist alone is able 

 to detect the difference. Macroglossa bombyliformis Caught one 

 specimen in fine condition on the 25th May 1895 at Ferness on 

 the Findhorn. Being a northern insect, and as the food -plant 

 (Scabiosa) is plentiful in the district, it might be expected to occur 



