128 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Large Greenland Shark captured off the South-East Coast of 

 Scotland. During the second week of January last, a large female 

 specimen of the Greenland Shark (Lcemargus borealis) was captured 

 twenty-five miles to the north-east of the Isle of May. This example 

 was twenty-one feet in length and weighed twenty-seven and a half 

 hundredweights. In its stomach was found a seaman's boot con- 

 taining a portion of a human leg. This fish was examined by 

 several naturalists. EDS. 



On some Coleoptera from the Island of Rum. Mr. Symington 

 Grieve has recently submitted to me for identification a small 

 collection of insects from the island of Rum, obtained by him in 

 July 1884. Amongst them are representatives of four species of 

 Coleoptera, which perhaps should be placed on record. These are : 

 (i) Dytiscus lapponicus, Gyll. (female), which Sharp in his "Coleoptera 

 of Scotland " says is very local, mentioning only the Moray, Clyde, 

 and Argyle areas for its occurrence ; (2) Pterostichus striola, Fab., a 

 species, so far as I can ascertain, hitherto recorded in the west of 

 Scotland for the Solway and Clyde areas and St. Kilda only ; (3) Staphy- 

 linus erythropterus, Linn, and (4) Geotrupes sylvaticus, Panz. The 

 two latter, though common species, do not appear to have been 

 previously recorded for the west of Scotland north of the Clyde 

 area. The collection also contained the larva of a Dytiscus, presum- 

 ably belonging to the same species as that mentioned above. 

 PERCY H. GRIMSHAW, Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh. 



Scottish Newts Wanted. With a view to ascertaining the dis- 

 tribution of the various species of Newts in Scotland, I desire to 

 receive specimens for examination from all parts of the country. All 

 assistance will be fully and gladly acknowledged. They travel well 

 alive in a little damp moss. WILLIAM EAGLE CLARKE, Museum of 

 Science and Art, Edinburgh. 



BOTANICAL NOTES AND NEWS. 



Poa humilis, Ehr/i., in West Ross and West Sutherland. This 

 is the grass referred to in my paper on the Cnoc-an rocks, which 

 appeared in the "Annals" of Jan. 1895, as being under consideration, 

 and which I found growing on both sides of the gully which forms 

 the boundary of the above counties on the Cnoc-an rocks. When 

 I saw it growing I was convinced from the runners that it was 

 distinct from the alpina section, which its close panicle and habit 

 rather suggested. 



Dried specimens were submitted to two well-known English 

 experts, who both thought it might prove to be a form of P. glauca. 



