i2 4 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



THE GROUSE-FLY, ORNITHOMYIA LAGOPODIS, SP. N. By D. 

 Sharp, M.A., F.R.S. Ent. Mo. Mag., March 1897, pp. 58-60.- 

 This interesting new species is described from specimens captured 

 in the northern half of Scotland. 



A NEW BRITISH FLEA. By the Hon. N. Charles Rothschild, 

 M.A., F.L.S. Ent. Mo. Mag., January 1907, p. n. A single 

 specimen of a flea new to science, and named Ceratophyllus borealis, 

 taken by Mr. Norman H. Joy on the Island of St. Kilda in July 

 last, and probably found in the nest of a gannet. 



DRAGON-FLY SEASONS OF 1905 AND 1906. By W. J. Lucas, 

 B.A., F.E.S. Entomologist^ February 1907, pp. 30-33. Somato- 

 chlora arctica and ^Eschna cserulea taken by Mr. K. J. Morton 

 at Rannoch. 



ANURIDA MARITIMA, GUER., AND ITS ENEMIES. By Richard S. 

 Bagnall. Ent. Record, March 1907, p. 71. Found in July 1906, 

 on the shores of Ayrshire, Arran, the Cumbraes, and the Kyles of 

 Bute. 



A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HYDRACHNID FAUNA OF SCOTLAND. 

 By Win. Williamson. Trans. Edinburgh Field Nat. and Micro. Soc., 

 vol. v., part iv., pp. 239-242 (1906). A list given of thirty species, 

 collected chiefly in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and 

 West Kilbride. 



NOTES ON NEW AND RARE COPEPODA FROM THE SCOTTISH 



SEAS. By Thomas Scott, LL.D. Styli Ann. Rept. Fishery Board 



for Scotland, 1905, part iii., pp. 275-280, pi. xiv. Three species 



are dealt with, one of which is new to science and called Amphiascus 



catharinae. 



THE ENCYSTMENT OF MACROBIOTUS. By James Murray. 

 Zoologist, January 1907, pp. 4-11 and figs. 1-5. --This paper 

 includes the description of a new species illustrated in the figures 

 and called M. dispar. Specimens were found in a pond at Nerston, 

 near Glasgow, in Loch Tay, in a pond near Shetland, and in the 

 Shetland Isles. 



BOTANY. 



ON THE HISTOLOGY OF PLANT-GALLS : I. XESTOPHANES TOR- 

 MENTILL^E. By R. A. Robertson (Proc. Scot. Microsc. Soc., 1906, 

 iv. pp. 136-141). 



FLORA OF CAIRNIE PARISH. By Peter Stuart, M.A., being pp. 

 191-198 in The Parish of Cairnie (Aberdeenshire), by James Pirie 

 (Banff, 1906); an enumeration of species noted by Mr. Stuart as 

 observed in the parish. 



NOTES ON THE " LIST OF BRITISH SEED-PLANTS AND FERNS." 

 By James Britten, F.L.S., and A. B. Rendle, D.Sc., F.L.S. (Journ. 



