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about three-quarters of a mile off Ardmore Head, Sound of Mull, 

 in from forty to fifty fathoms. The fisherman who brought it to me 

 said that he had never met with one like it previously. The first 

 ray of the anterior dorsal fin was unusually developed, being 

 2.25 inches in length. I am indebted to Mr. Eagle Clarke for 

 naming the specimen, which is now preserved in the Royal 

 Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. D. MACDONALD, Tobermory. 



[Though this fish is common in the Clyde area it has not often 

 been detected elsewhere on the west coast north of that district. 

 EDS.] 



Quedius longieornis, Kr., in Forth. Among some Coleoptera 

 which I collected at Callander in the spring of 1900, I find there is 

 a specimen, taken on 2oth April, of this rare Staphylinid. The only 

 previous Scottish records seem to be from Solway, where a very 

 few examples have been taken, and a doubtful one from Clyde. 

 Unfortunately, I have no note of the habitat of the Callander 

 specimen. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Death's Head Moth, in Kirkcudbrightshire. The occurrence 

 of this fine species on the Scottish side of the Borders is always of 

 interest, owing to the fact that it has, I think, a very uncertain status 

 as a native species, although, of course, there is no doubt at all that 

 from time to time native-laid and native-hatched specimens are 

 occasionally in some numbers. But I believe these are in all cases 

 the produce of immigrant females, and that all such die out without 

 founding a native race. On 22nd May I had a fine female sent 

 me, captured on that date at Carsethorn in Kirkcudbrightshire 

 upon the sails of a small schooner that had entered the harbour 

 there. It was alive, lively, and in very fair condition when I 

 received it. ROBERT SERVICE, Maxwelltown. 



BOTANICAL NOTES AND NEWS. 



Sagina Reuteri, Boiss. The recent discovery of this pearl-wort 

 in several counties in England, in situations where it is most unlikely 

 that it owes its occurrence to human agency, seems to leave no 

 room for doubt that it is native in Britain, and that it has escaped 

 notice owing to its resemblance to allied forms. It is treated in 

 Babington's "Manual" (ed. ix.) and in Druce's list as a variety 

 of S. apetala, but in the " London Catalogue," ed. x., as a distinct 

 species. It was first found near Madrid by Reuter, in 1841, and 

 described by Boissier as a native of Spain ; but it has not apparently 

 been observed elsewhere in Southern Europe. When first 

 detected in Britain it was observed only near railways, or in other 



