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fins and tail, etc., having retained their bright vermilion colour, 

 which gradually faded in two or three days. It weighed 123 Ibs., 

 and was about 3 feet 9 inches from head to tail, and about 3 feet 

 from back to belly, being nearly circular in shape. It is some years 

 since a specimen of this fine fish has been seen in the South of 

 Shetland. THOMAS BERWICK CLARKE. 



Planorbis fontanus (Light/.} in S.W. Perthshire. On ist July 

 1905, I found a few living examples of this water snail at the foot 

 of Loch Ard in South Perthshire (V.C. 87) : they were on the 

 undersides of leaves of the white water-lily. The few recorded 

 Scottish localities for this species are, with two exceptions (Elgin 

 and E. Ross), south of the Forth and Clyde.- -WILLIAM EVANS, 

 Edinburgh. 



Chelifer latraillii, Leach, in Fife. In the "Annals" for 1901, 

 p. 23, I drew attention to a record of the occurrence of this 

 chernetid in fissures in the rocks near North Berwick, where it was 

 taken in September 1882 by Mr. H. Crowther. I can now record 

 it from Elie, Fife, having found two examples one carrying eggs 

 in cracks in the soft rocks near the harbour there, on 6th July this 

 year. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



On the Oeeurrenee of two Platypezids in S. Scotland. On 



the 23rd July 1904, I took a male of Opetia nigra, Mg., in a marshy 

 spot near "the Well," St. Boswells. There are few records for 

 this fly in Britain. Of Scottish localities Mr. Verrall mentions 

 specifically Muchalls, near Aberdeen. Mr. Grimshaw has recorded 

 it from the Almond valley in his Perthshire list. On the igth 

 August this year I captured a male of Callimyia ama'/m, Mg., in 

 some short undergrowth in a wood near Glencorse. The records 

 hitherto are chiefly from South England, but it has also been taken 

 at Rannoch (Verrall). Both species were captured by sweeping. 

 JAMES WATERSTON, Edinburgh. 



Catabomba selenitiea, Mg., in the Forth district. On 2nd 

 August, in a fir-wood to the south of Midcalder, I found a male of 

 this species newly emerged from the pupa. It has been identified 

 by Mr. James Waterston. ROBERT GODFREY, Edinburgh. 



[We believe that this is only the second Scottish record for 

 this handsome Syrphid fly. Since receiving the above note, how- 

 ever, we have seen an example of each sex taken by Mr. Grimshaw 

 at Rannoch during the first week of August. EDS.] 



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Ranunculus reptans, Z., in Mid Perth. This plant, which has 

 hitherto been supposed to be confined in Scotland to the shores of 

 Loch Leven in Kinross, and of the Loch of Strathbeg in Aberdeen- 



