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NEMEOPHILA PLANTAGINIS, AB. HOSPITA AND AB. RUFA. By A. 

 Home. Ent. Record, vol. ix. p. 330 (i5th December 1897). Ab. 

 rufa stated to be not uncommon on the Kincardineshire coast and 

 near Aberdeen, where ab. hospita has never occurred. Ab. hospita 

 is found on the higher moors. 



BLACK ABERRATION OF NEMEOPHILA PLANTAGINIS. By Arthur 

 Home. Ent. Record, vol. ix. p. 260 (isth October 1897). Refers 

 to a specimen bred from a larva found on Scotston Moor, near 

 Aberdeen, with the hind wings velvety black. 



TEPHROSIA BISTORTATA (CREPUSCULARIA) AS A SCOTCH INSECT. 

 Ent. Record, vol. ix. pp. 258-259 (isth October 1897). Notes by 

 various observers on jthe occurrence of this species in Perthshire, 

 Loch Long (Argyleshire), Forres, etc. 



EPIONE VESPERTARIA (PARALLELARIA) IN ROXBURGHSHIRE, 



1897. By William Hewett. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. viii. p. 255 

 (November 1897). Three specimens captured by Mr. W. Renton 

 near Hawick on 26th August 1897. 



ACALLA ASPERSANA IN UNST. J. J. F. X. King. Ent. Mo. 



Mag. (2), vol. viii. p. 279 (December 1897). Refers to a previous 

 record in vol. vii. p. 8 (1896). 



OCCURRENCE OF CRAMBUS PERLELLUS, VAR. ROSTELLUS, IN ROSS- 

 SHIRE. By E. Meyrick. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. viii. p. 255 (Nov- 

 ember 1897). Several examples met with near Gairloch early in 

 September. 



RARE AYRSHIRE COLEOPTERA, exhibited to Glasgow Nat. Hist. 

 Society by Mr. Anderson Fergusson. Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glas- 

 gow, 1896-97, pp. 136-137. 



COLEOPTERA FROM HOY, ORKNEY. By W. E. Sharp. Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. (2), vol. viii. p. 236 (October 1897). Twenty species col- 

 lected in the summer of 1895. 



DYTISCUS LAPPONICUS IN THE ISLAND OF MULL. By J. J. F. X. 

 King. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. viii. p. 279 (December 1897). A 

 series captured in July 1897. 



HABITS OF SERICOMYIA BOREALIS^FLN. By Rev. E. N. Bloomfield. 

 Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. viii. p. 222 (October 1897). Refers to 

 three specimens bred by Mr. W. Sim, of Gourdas, Fyvie, Aberdeen- 

 shire. 



NOTES ON SUNARISTES PAGURI, HESSE, AND SOME OTHER RARE 



CRUSTACEA. By Thomas Scott, F.L.S., and Andrew Scott. Ann. 

 and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), vol. xx. pp. 489-494, pis. xi. and xii. 

 (December 1897). A female specimen of Sunaristes paguri from 

 the Cromarty Firth, and Scottish specimens of RemigulusHridens, 

 Diaptomus laciniatus, and Lathonura rectirostris, are described and 

 figured. 



