246 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



206-208, and 222-226. An exhaustive report, with details of 

 localities in which melanic forms have been observed. Numerous 

 Scottish records are included. 



LEPIDOPTERA AT KINLOCH-RANNOCH. Percy C. Reid, Ent. 

 Record, ist July 1906, p. 189. Notes on a dozen species. 



ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO THE LIST OF BRITISH HYMEN- 

 OPTERA SINCE 1896. Edward Saunders, Ent. Mo. Mag., July, 

 August, and September 1906, pp. 151-155, 172-177, and 202-206. 

 Numerous Scottish records are given in this useful summary. 



CRYPTOHYPNUS PULCHELLUS, L. James E. Black, F.E.S., Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., July 1906, pp. 155-156. Refers to the capture of 

 several specimens on the banks of the river Truim, a tributary of 

 the Spey. 



DIPTERA IN SCOTLAND IN 1905. A. E. J. Carter, Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., August 1906, pp. 181-182. Sixty-four species recorded, all 

 from the Forth district. 



NEUROPTERA FROM NORTH UIST. K. J. Morton, Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., July 1906, p. 162. Ten species recorded, all captured by 

 Mr. James Waterston in June 1905. 



BOTANY. 



A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE LAKES OF SCOTLAND AND 

 DENMARK. By C. Wesenberg-Lund (Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., xxv., 

 i95> PP- 401-448, 2 plates). 



CAREX NOTES. By C. E. Salmon (Joitrn. Bot., 1906, pp. 224- 

 227). Enumerates varieties and hybrids new to Britain, several 

 being from Scotland. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



THE BIRDS OF THE CAMBRIDGE REGION OF MASSACHUSETTS, 

 with 4 plates and 3 maps. By Wm. Brewster. "Memoirs of the 

 Nuttall Orn. Club," No. IV. Cambridge, Mass. 1906. 



This charming volume is of considerable interest, and well 

 worthy of perusal by ornithologists who make a study of the 

 changes which affect bird-life of any area, whether at home or 

 abroad. It presents a chronological exposition of the history of 

 the fauna of a limited area during the short space of some seventy 

 years, and can hardly fail to prove suggestive in similar directions. 

 It first describes in detail the surrounding country during the life- 

 time of the writer, and gives lists of the species which were known 



