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Air cold. I felt I had got something good, probably H. guttati- 

 pennis, and so they proved to be. 



Limnophilus hirsittus (Pict.}. Luffness Marsh, East Lothian, 

 22nd July 1905, one specimen. 



Rhyacophila mundce, M'L. 6*, Cowie's Linn, a few miles 

 north of Eddleston, Peeblesshire, 24th September 1904. WILLIAM 

 EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Chiridium museorum (Leach} in Fife. On 28th October last, 

 when looking for beetles, etc., in an old-established meal mill at 

 Dumfermline, I found this little pseudo-scorpion in plenty on the 

 undersides of pieces of wood lying in dark out-of-the-way corners 

 seldom visited by the brush. The creature is doubtless common in 

 similar situations in many other parts of this district. WILLIAM 

 EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Lsemargus murieatus, A'tvy., on a Sunfish captured in the 

 Firth of Forth. From a large Sunfish Orthagoriscus mo/a, which was 

 captured at North Berwick on 28th September last, I took four 

 specimens ( $ $ ) of this parasitic copepod. They were half buried 

 in the fish's skin immediately behind the anal fin. Along with them 

 were some much smaller parasites, which Dr. T. Scott tells me 

 are Caligus rapax, M.-Edw. Notwithstanding its prior use by 

 Kroyer, Lamargus has been adopted as the generic name of the 

 Greenland Shark. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Fauna of the Upper Elf Loch. Referring to my paper in the 

 " Annals " for October last, the tiny Oligochget, (Eolosoma hemprichi, 

 Ehr.( = ehrenbergt, Orst.), has since been detected in this pond ; also, 

 some further Bdelloids, etc., have been noted by Mr. J. Murray 

 among material sent to him. I ought to have mentioned in my 

 paper that Messrs. Scott and Lindsay's investigations were not 

 undertaken with the object of producing an exhaustive list of the 

 animals inhabiting the loch. The micro-fauna was their chief 

 concern, other forms receiving little more than casual attention. 

 WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



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William Phillips, F.L.S., died on 22nd October 1905, at the 

 age of eighty-three. A brief notice of his life and a portrait are 

 given in the "Journal of Botany" for December last (pp. 361-362). 

 Though a native of Wales, he spent his life, except the first ten 

 years, in Shrewsbury, where he carried on business. His interest 

 in botany showed itself comparatively late in life, under the influence 

 of the Rev. W. Leighton. It began with flowering plants, but 



