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above sea level. A few days before I captured one at about 1000 

 feet elevation by the roadside leading to Loch Morlich. On Cairn- 

 gorm and Braeriach it was abundant at the usual altitude. WILLIAM 

 EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Rare Beetles in Inverness-shire. It may interest some of the 

 readers of the " Annals " to know that 1 found the bright red beetle 

 Eros aurora, Herbst., in considerable abundance in the forest of 

 Rothiemurchus towards the end of May last (1893). Besides a 

 single example at Loch-an-Eilean and another at the Boon, I found 

 numbers resting or crawling on the branches of a dead bush of 

 broom at Inverdruie. From twenty to thirty might have been 

 captured on each of several successive days. The spot was thickly 

 covered with decayed sawdust. According to Sharp's " Coleoptera 

 Scotica" and Fowler's "British Coleoptera," this species has not hitherto 

 been taken in Moray ; the only British localities given for it being 

 Rannoch, etc. Another interesting capture was Pachyta sexmaatlata, 

 L.,of which I obtained a single specimen on the sand-hills at the upper 

 end of Loch Morlich in the forest of Glenmore. On referring to 

 the authors above mentioned, I find only one previous record, and 

 that for the same district, namely two specimens captured at 

 Aviemore in 1877. Another good beetle taken among shingle by 

 the margin of Loch Gamnha was Meloe violacens, Marsh. WILLIAM 

 EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Lepidepeereum earinatum, Spencc Bate and IVestwood, in the 

 Firth of Forth. This curious Amphipod has recently been obtained 

 in the Firth of Forth for the first time. The genus and species 

 \\ r ere instituted by Spence Bate and Westwood in 1868, and are 

 described at page 509 of the second volume of their work on the 

 ; ' British Sessile-eyed Crustacea," from a female specimen sent to 

 them by the late Thomas Edward of Banff. Mr. Spence Bate had 

 previously ("Cat. Amph. Crust. Brit. Mus." 1862) described a male 

 specimen sent to him from Shetland by Mr. George Barlee as 

 Anouyx longicornis ; and it is therefore the opinion of some British 

 Carcinologists that the name of the species should be Lepidepeereum 

 long-iconic, Sp. Bate : but Professor G. O. Sars (" Crustacea of Norway," 

 vol. i. p. 115) thinks that the " last-named specific appellation must be 

 cancelled as only referring to a masculine character, although it is of 

 somewhat older date than the name subsequently assigned to the 

 female." The species does not appear to be a very common one. 

 The Scotch records for it are Shetland (as Anonyx lo/igicornis, Sp. 

 Bate) ; Moray Firth (Thomas Edward : " I have it also from that 

 locality ") ; and Firth of Clyde (David Robertson). THOMAS SCOTT, 

 Edinburgh. 



Metopa nasuta, Boeck, from the Moray Firth. This small 

 Amphipod (scarcely 3 mm. in length) has been taken in the Moray 



