254 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Fishes," by Dr. T. Wemyss Fulton, F.R.S.E., in the "Eighth Annual 

 Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland," part iii. p. 357 (1890). 

 T. SCOTT, Leith. 



Helix hispida, var. sinistrorsum, in Berwickshire. On the 



2nd of July last I found at Eyemouth a reversal specimen of Helix 

 hispida a variety of this species which I do not think has ever been 

 recorded before, at least it is not in the Conchological Society's List 

 of British Land and Freshwater Mollusca. I have named it, 

 according to precedent, monstrosity sinistrorsum. JANET CARPHIN, 

 Edinburgh. 



Geotrupes typhceus (Z.). Referring to my note in the July 

 "Annals" (p. 198) on the occurrence of this beetle in Scotland, I 

 see that Don includes the species in his account of the plants and 

 animals of Forfarshire appended to Headrick's " Agriculture " of the 

 county, which was published in 1813. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Salda Muelleri in Perthshire. During a visit to Ballinluig I 

 had the good fortune to meet with six specimens of Salda Muelleri, 

 Gmelin. These have been very kindly identified by Mr. Edward 

 Saunders, F.E.S., who at first informed me that the insect was new 

 to the British List ; but he now tells me that, " as a matter of 

 fact, Muelleri is the one hitherto known under the name of S. Morio, 

 Zetterstedt. It has been taken at Aviemore by G. C. Champion ; 

 Scarborough by Wilkinson ; Horning by G. C. Champion. Ap- 

 parently I [E. Saunders] am the only one who has met with the true 

 Morio in this country, which I took at Buxton, on the moors, but 

 only a very few males ; and in my " British Hemiptera " I described 

 the $ Morio and $ Muelleri as one species, under the name Morio. 

 The two species may be known apart thus : Morio is more shining, 

 almost burnished, and the elytra are so smooth as to show no 

 definite punctuation ; whereas in Muelleri there is a distinct though 

 irregular punctuation on their disc. The eyes in Morio $ are 

 smaller than in Muelleri $ , each being narrower than the intervening 

 space between them. Dr. Reuter has recently published a work on 

 the Salda of the Palaearctic region, and it is from his book that I 

 have gleaned the characters which distinguish the two species." 



Since my stay referred to, I paid a flying visit to Ballinluig, in 

 search of more specimens. I was again successful in obtaining four 

 J Muelleri and a damaged ? . In the sunlight the insect is of a 

 bright bronze blue colour, and is sluggish in habit, making no 

 attempt to leap or fly like our S. Scotica and many other species of 

 Saldfe, which are so difficult to capture. The specimens seemed to 

 avoid open places, and were only found by careful searching at the 

 roots of the grass. I had also the good fortune to add S. Cocksii 

 to the Perthshire list, the species being apparently common in this 

 locality. T. M. M'GREGOR, Perth. 



