CURRENT LITERATURE 191 



Euchloe cardamines, Macroglossa bombyliformis, Viminia meny- 

 anthidis, and V. myricte taken between i2th April and ist May. 



NOTE ON RETINIA DUPLANA, Hb. W. H. B. Fletcher. Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. (2), vol. iv. p. 114 (May 1893). The note refers to 

 specimens taken at Forres in 1891 by the Messrs. Salvage. 



PERONEA PERPLEXANA, Ex., NEAR GLASGOW. James J. F. X. 

 King. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. iv. p. 140 (June 1893). Several 

 specimens taken at Cadder Wilderness and Mugdock Woods, near 

 Glasgow, and one specimen on the Mouse Water, Cleghorn, near 

 Lanark. 



HEMIPTERA, HETEROPTERA, AND HOMOPTERA COLLECTED IN 

 PERTH DISTRICT, 1892. T. M. M'Gregor. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), 

 vol. iv. p. 92 (April 1893). Fifty-three species are recorded. 



SHETLAND DIPTERA. C. W. Dale. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. iv. 

 p. 93 (April 1893). A list of fifty-four species given, collected in 

 June 1890. 



BOTANY. 



FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS (continued}. 

 By William A. Clarke, F.L.S. Joitrn. Bot., May. The only 

 records from Scotland are Myrrhis odorata, Scop., noted by Light- 

 foot in 1777 as "frequent, but always near houses," and Ligusti- 

 cuin scotiaim, L., first mentioned by Sibbald in 1684. 



NEW LOCALITIES FOR SOME RARE BORDER PLANTS. By John 

 Anderson. Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, 1891, p. 386. --The plants 

 are Linntza borcalis, Galiuni mollugo, and Elaphomyces granulatus, 

 Fries. 



REMARKS ON SOME NEW LOCALITIES FOR RARE PLANTS. By 

 Dr. J. Hardy. Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, 1891, pp. 410-411. The 

 plants referred to are Miliuin effusum, Nuphar minima, Lathrtza 

 squamaria, Linncca borealis, Pyrola minor, Linaria minor, C/ieno- 

 podinm polyspermum, Lepidinm Draba, Cetraria sepincola, and Squam- 

 aria gelida. 



JED FOREST. By Walter Laidlaw. Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, 1891, 

 pp. 393-394. Gives measurements of several of the largest trees. 



LIST OF CULTIVATED PLANTS AND SHRUBS GROWN AT CARHAM 

 HALL. By Mrs. Hodgson Huntley. Ber. Nat. Hist. Chtb, 1891, 

 pp. 387-389- 



BRITISH HAWKWEEDS. By Edward F. Linton, M.A., and W. R. 

 Linton, M.A. Journ. Bot., May, pp. 145-149, June, pp. 177-182. 

 The plants referred to or described in this paper were chiefly 

 collected in Aberdeenshire, Forfarshire, Mid-Perth, and Dumfries- 



