CURRENT LITERATURE 125 



PLATYPTILIA PALLIDACTYLA AT DUMFRIES. W. G. Clutten. 

 Ent. Record, March 1905, p. 73. Corrects an identification, the 

 species being formerly recorded as P. ochrodnctyla. 



COLEOPTERA IN THE PEEBLES DISTRICT IN 1904. James E. 



Black, F.E.S. Ent. Record, March 1905, p. 70 Records the 

 capture of 20 species in the vicinity of Peebles, including Salpingus 

 ater, Sinodendron cylindricum, etc. 



COLEOPTERA AT RANNOCH. T. Hudson Beare. Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 January 1905, pp. 18-19. Records 18 species taken in June and 

 July 1904. 



COLEOPTERA TAKEN IN THE FLANNAN ISLANDS BY MR. W. 

 EAGLE CLARKE. T. Hudson Beare. Ent. Mo. Mag. January 

 1905, pp. 19-20. Substantially the same information as that con- 

 tained in the present volume of the Annals (pp. 20-22). 



LIST OF BRITISH DOLICHOPODID/E WITH TABLES AND NOTES 

 (continued}. G. H. Verrall. Ent. Mo. Mag. February -March 

 1905, pp. 50-57. Numerous Scottish records are given in this 

 valuable paper. 



Two ADDITIONAL BRITISH SPECIES OF THE DIPTEROUS GENUS 

 ERIGONE, ROB.-DESV. Ernest E. Austen. Ent. Mo. Mag. March 

 1905, pp. 57-60. Erigone truncata, Ztt. noted as taken by Col. 

 Yerbury at Aviemore and Glenmore in Inverness-shire, and at 

 Golspie, Sutherlandshire. 



BOTANY. 



THE LATE GEORGE BREBNER. By D. H. Scott, F.R.S. Journ. 

 jBof., 1905, pp. 60-6 1. A brief obituary, with references to his work 

 as an accurate and able histologist and artist in the investigation of 

 stems of vascular plants, recent and fossil, and of Algae. A native 

 of Aberdeen, Mr. Brebner died in his fiftieth year, in Bristol, where 

 he was lecturer on Botany in University College. 



THE FLORA OF BUCHAN. By James W. H. Trail, A.M., M.D., 

 F.R.S. Trans. Buchan Field Club, 1904, 56 pp. Briefly notes 

 features of Buchan, enumerates the vascular plants, with indications 

 of habitats and frequency in Buchan ; analyses the flora by habitats, 

 and by relations to man's influence ; discusses probable origins of 

 flora, and indicates recent additions to local lists. 



NOTES ON LIMONIUM. By C. E. Salmon, F.R.S. Journ. Bot., 

 1905, pp. 5-14, 54-59- A discussion of the forms of the genus 

 ( - Statice of most British floras), with localities. For Scotland L. 

 vulgare, Mill., f. pyramidale, Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Wigton and 

 ? Shetland ; L. humile, Mill., f. nanittn, Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, and 

 Wigton. 



