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WHITE MOLES IN ABERDEENSHIRE. G. M. The Field, 2 and 

 June 1895, p. 928. Records the capture of six females. 



SPREAD OF THE ROE-DEER IN S.-W. SCOTLAND. Robert Service. 

 Zoologist (3), vol. xix. p. 346 (September 1895). 



THE MARSH TIT IN DUMFRIESSHIRE. Robert Service. Zoologist 

 (3), vol. xix. pp. 349-350 (September 1895). Compares the status 

 of this species in 1840 and the present time. 



WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE IN ST. KILDA. H. A. Macpherson. 

 Zoologist (3), vol. xix. p. 348 (September 1895). An adult male 

 shot on St. Kilda in June of the present year. 



ARCTIC TERN AND COMMON GULL BREEDING IN SHETLAND. 

 Robert Godfrey. Zoologist (3), vol. xix p. 349 (September 1895). 

 Breeding colonies found on a small island in the loch of Grum- 

 navoe on 24th June last. 



NATTERJACK TOAD IN DUMFRIESSHIRE. Robert Service. 

 Zoologist (3), vol. xix. p. 350 (September 1895). Specimens found 

 at Southerness. 



ALTERATIONS IN " BRITISH CONCHOLOGY." By J. T. Marshall. 

 Journ. of Conchology, vol. viii. pp. 24-41 (January-April 1895). 

 Refers to Scottish species. 



NOTES FROM THE BOOKS OF THE EXCHANGE BASKETS. Ellt. 



Record, vol. vi. pp. 234-236 (i5th June 1895), and vol. vii. pp. 13- 

 17 (i5th September 1895). Notes are included on Lepidoptera 

 from Aberdeen, Montrose, Luss, Milngavie, etc. 



NOTE ON HEPIALUS HUMULI IN ORKNEY. H. M 'Arthur. Ento- 

 mologist, vol. xxviii. p. 204 (July 1895). 



NYSSIA LAPPONARIA IN SCOTLAND. Mrs. Cross. Entomologist, 

 vol. xxviii. p. 207 (July 1895). Caterpillar taken on birch at Ran- 

 noch in 1894. 



COLEOPTERA AT STORNOWAY, N.B. By James J. Walker, R.N., 

 F.L.S. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. vi. pp. 182-184 (August 1895). 

 Seventy-three species are recorded, and mention made of four species 

 of Lepidoptera. 



COLEOPTERA NEAR DUMFRIES. W. Lennon. Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 (2), vol vi. p. 174 (July 1895). Eighteen species recorded, of which 

 seven are probably new to the Solway district. 



ON NEW AND OBSCURE BRITISH SPECIES OF DIASTATA. By 

 R. H. Meade. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. vi. pp. 169-170 (July 

 1895). Notes on D. obscurella, Fin., basalis, Meig., and fumi- 

 pennis, Meig. D. unipunctata, Ztt, is here recorded as British for 

 the first time, having been taken by Mr. Beaumont at Pitlochry in 

 1892. 



