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Pyrellia cyanicolor, Ztt. ? on Heracleum, ix. '03. 



Lucilia sylvarum, Mg. $ This very distinct Muscid has two 

 abdominal macrochretas. Apparently uncommon, for I know of no 

 other Scottish record. For interesting notes on the larval habit of 

 this and the closely allied L. bufonivora, Moniez. (see "The Ento- 

 mologist," March 1899, p. 76). Loc. Knockankelly, ix. '03. 



Homalomyia unified, Ztt. c? certainly, and apparently $ also, 

 ix. '03. JAMES WATERSTON, Edinburgh. 



Milax (Amalia) gagates, var. rava, in S.W. Perth. On 22nd 

 September I found a single example of this slug in a garden at 

 Callander. There are very few Scottish records for the species, but 

 one of them by Mr. G. M'Dougall is from near Bridge of Allan 

 in the same vice-county (87). I am indebted to Mr. W. D. Roe- 

 buck for the identification of my specimen. WILLIAM EVANS, 

 Edinburgh. 



Ripersia subterranea, Newst., in " Forth. "- -Females of this 

 interesting little Coccid were common on the undersides of stones 

 covering nests of the small yellow ant (Lasii/s flavus] at North 

 Queensferry, Fife, nth April 1906. In the same nests there were 

 also numbers of the Aphis Paradetits cimiciformis, Heyd. Mr. R. 

 Newstead has kindly examined specimens of both species for me. 

 WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Further Siphonaptera (Fleas) from "Forth."- -To the list of 

 Siphonaptera from this area given in my paper in last number of the 

 "Annals" (pp. 161-163) I have to add two others since obtained, 

 namely : 



Ceratophyllus walkeri, Rothsch. ("Ent. Mo. Mag." 1902). 

 One ( 2 ) from nest of the Common Field- Vole (Microtns agrestis\ 

 Crosswood, Pentlands, 3oth August 1906. Two specimens of 

 Hystrichopsylla talpce were also got from the same nest. 



C.farreni, Rothsch. ("Ent. Mo. Mag." 1905). In July last I 

 took a dozen examples of this recently described species, along with 

 a few C. galling, from a martin's nest in a window of a house near 

 Liberton, Midlothian. The nest was built in 1905, and was not 

 occupied by martins this year ; sparrows, however, were frequently 

 seen at it. C. gal/in^, it may be mentioned, was found plentifully 

 in nests of Starling and Jackdaw in May and June, and C. new- 

 steadi also occurred in a Jackdaw's nest. 



I am obliged to Mr, R. G. Linton for a large number of both 

 sexes of Pulex canis, Curt., taken from a rough-haired fox terrier at 

 the Royal Veterinary College, Edinburgh, in September. 



The above have all been examined by Mr. Rothschild or his 

 assistant Mr. Cox. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



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