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was perfectly dry for the greater part of its depth. On the 2oth, 

 which was a warm, sunny day, some two inches of water stood in a 

 section of the ditch about fifty yards in extent, and in this I counted 

 between sixty and seventy Newts, all of the present species. They 

 were nearly all in pairs, each female being accompanied by a single 

 male with tail invariably curved round towards his head and vibrat- 

 ing rapidly. In other respects they remained quite still, seldom 

 showing any desire to move from the spots on which they rested 

 unless an attempt was made to capture them. Two or three small 

 ones, scarcely half grown, were observed, which struck me as rather 

 odd, looking to the season of the year. Some of the adults I sent 

 home laid eggs shortly afterwards. 



The Palmated Newt is doubtless common and widely distributed 

 in Scotland, but records bearing on its actual distribution north of 

 the Tweed are extremely meagre, although it is now nearly fifty years 

 since it was first discovered by Wolley in the neighbourhood of Edin- 

 burgh, where it still exists. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Coleoptera at Loch Awe in June 1892. During the beginning 

 of June I spent four or five days at the Loch Awe Hotel, and while 

 there worked pretty hard for beetles. On the hill at the back of the 

 hotel 1 took the following species amongst others : Carabns arvensis, 

 Pterostichus cethiops and intreus, Patrobus septentrionis, Phyllopertha 

 horticola (including the black variety), Corymbites inipressus (2) one 

 under dead leaves, the other beaten from birch. 



Corymbites cupreus, tesselatus, quercus, and the var. ochropterus ; 

 Telcphorus palitstris, figiiratits (Scoticus\ including a form with the 

 elytra entirely black and the legs, except knees, black. These speci- 

 mens I at first mistook for elongatus, and in fact recorded them as 

 such ; they belong, however, to Tdephorus proper, and not to 

 Rhagonycha, and there can be little doubt they are a variety oifigur- 

 atus : they occurred on sweeping coarse grass in a damp place. 



Otiorhynchus manrus, Gonioctena pallida, ClytJira ^-punctata, 

 Megacronus cingulatus, Litperusflavipes, Aphodius lappomim, Cocdnella 

 i6-g!{/ta/a, and Anthophagus testaceus. 



Crossing the loch and working round home again by the railway 

 bridge I found that beating flowers of the mountain ash, young oaks, 

 poplars, and sallows, produced numbers of beetles, including Elater 

 nigrinus, Sericosomus brunnetts, Rhynchites atpreus and aneovirens, 

 Elleschits bipunctatus, Orchestes avellaniz, Rhamphus flavicornis, 

 Erirhimts tortrix, and pectoralis ; also Cocdnella i6-guttata in great 

 numbers. Both the common species of Rhagium were abundant 

 everywhere. 



On the banks of the river above the loch I found Geodromiais 

 uigritits, and in the pools at and near the top of the hill at the back 

 of the hotel, which pools were full of water beetles, there were Agabus 

 arcticus, congener and nitidus, Hydroporus morio, etc. 



