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took an adult example of Liniax cinereo-niger in Glen Ogle on nth 

 July. ROBERT GODFREY. 



Ichneumon bred from Obisium museorum, Leach. On 4th 

 April 1903, at Woodcockdale, West Lothian, in a nest of Obisium 

 museorum containing chitinous fragments of the animal, I found the 

 pupa of an ichneumon which had apparently fed on the Obisii/m. 

 I handed the pupa to Mr. Waterston, with whom in due course it 

 hatched out. The perfect insect was then forwarded to Mr. Morley, 

 who replies concerning it: "The little ichneumon from Obisium 

 museorum is extremely interesting, since, though other species of the 

 genus Stibentes to which it appears to belong have been bred 

 from spiders' eggs, I know of no instance of an ichneumon of any 

 kind being bred from a pseudo-scorpion."- -ROBERT GODFREY, 

 Edinburgh. 



Monomorium pharaonis in Crieff. While staying at Crieff 

 Hydro, on 2oth April last, I saw a very small ant running on the 

 serviette of the lady sitting opposite me at lunch. I rightly con- 

 jectured it to be of this species, and have shown it to Mr. Wm. 

 Kvans, who confirms the identification. Mr. Evans recorded it, 

 from an Edinburgh hotel, in the "Annals," 1899, p. 117. ROBERT 

 GODFREY, Edinburgh. 



Butterflies and Dragonflies in Banffshire. I was again at 

 Cullen on the coast of Banffshire in July last. The cold, stormy 

 weather was most unfavourable to insect life. I confirmed 

 my last year's observations as to Argynnis aglaia, Linn., Polyom- 

 matus artaxerxes, Fabr., and A. Filipendultz, Linn. Of the last, 

 however, I did not see a dozen where in former years I have seen a 

 hundred. I caught a few dragonflies at Crannoch Loch near Cullen, 

 which lies in a hollow on a heath-clad hill within a mile of the sea. 

 Mr. Grimshaw of the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art was 

 good enough to determine the species as follows : Libellula quadri- 

 maculata, Linn., Pyrrhosoma nyinpliula, Sulz., Ischnura elegans^ 

 Lind., and Enallagma cyathigerum, Charp., the last both male 

 and female. HENRY H. BROWN, Cupar-Fife. 



Sesia bembeeiformis (Hb.} in Argyllshire. On iSth April I 

 took a larva of this species from burrowings in willow by the side of 

 a small pond at Inverawe, Taynuilt. A crippled female resulted on 

 gth July. In two other places within an eight-mile radius the 

 willows showed signs of attack. JAMES WATERSTON, Edinburgh. 



Orthoneura nobilis (fl>i.) in Peeblesshire. On 2nd August I 

 took a female of this fly at rest on the flowers of Heracleum growing 

 in ditch near Merlindale Bridge, Drummelzier. Seen and confirmed 

 by Mr. Percy H. Grimshaw. JAMES WATERSTON, Edinburgh. 



Diptera in the Edinburgh (Forth) District. To my records in 

 previous notes ("Annals," 1900, p. 251, and 1901, p. 52), I should 



