i88 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



DlPTERA FROM SUFFOLK, ABERDEEN, ETC. By E. N. BloOIttfield. 



Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. ix. p. 138 (June 1898). 



OXYCERA DIVES, LOEW., AT RANNOCH, AND NOTES ON THE 



GENUS. By C. W. Dale. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. ix. p. 88 (April 

 1898). Specimen taken on i8th June 1896. 



SUPPLEMENT TO " A SYNOPSIS OF BRITISH PSYCHODID/E." By 

 Rev. A. E. Eaton, M.A., F.E.S. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. ix. pp. 

 117-125 (May and June 1898). Psychoda phalaenoides, Linn., and 

 P. albipennis, Zett., are recorded from Loch Maree. 



BOTANY. 



BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS 

 (FIRST SUPPLEMENT). By James Britten and G. S. Boulger. Journ. 

 Bot., 1898, pp. 145-149, 192-195. The above instalments extend 

 from Bobart to Higgins. 



NOTES OF A TOUR IN N. SCOTLAND, 1897. By Rev. 

 Edward S. Marshall and W. A. Shoolbred. Journ. Bot., 1898, pp. 

 166-177. The results of a visit from i4th July to i2th August 

 1897, in Vice-counties Caithness (109), West Sutherland (108), 

 East Sutherland (107), East Ross (106), and Elgin (95). It con- 

 tains numerous new records. 



SCOTTISH LOCALITIES FOR EUPHRASIA FOULAENSIS, TOWNSEND. 

 By Rev. Edward S. Marshall. Journ. Bot., 1898, p. 150. Based on 

 his own gatherings, and on the Boswell-Syme and Hanbury herbaria. 

 The localities noted are in Mid-Perth (88), S. Aberdeen (92), W. 

 Sutherland (108), Caithness (109), Orkney (m). 



EXPERIMENTS IN CROSS - FERTILISATION OF SALICES. By 

 Edward F. Linton. Journ. Bot., 1898, pp. 122-124. Descriptions 

 of artificially produced hybrids, viz. S. Caprea x lanata, S. tinerea x 

 Myrsinites, and 6". lanata x repens. 



CAREX HELVOLA, BLYTT, ON BEN LAWERS. Recorded by 

 Mr. G. C. Druce at meeting of Linnean Society on 3rd March 1898. 

 Journ. Bot., 1898, p. 157. 



NEW OR RARE BRITISH FUNGI. By Annie Lorrain Smith. 

 Journ. Bot., 1898, pp. 180-182. Enumerates the following, sent 

 by D. A. Boyd from Seamill in Ayrshire (except O. Bistortae), and 

 believed by the writer to be new to Britain : Pseudophacidiuin 

 Callunce, Karst., on dead branches of Calluna vulgarisj Stictis stellata, 

 Wallr., on dead stems of Eupatorium cannabinum ; Thyrsidium 

 hedericolum, Dur. and Mont., var. Carpini, Sacc., on dead branch of 

 Carpinus Betulus ; Ovularia Bistortce, Sacc., on Polygonum Bistorta 

 from Kilmarnock ; and Ramularia Valeriance, Sacc., on Valeriana 

 officinalis. [Of the above at least Ovularia Bistorta, Ramularia 

 Valeriance, and Thyrsidium hedericolum have been previously recorded 

 from near Aberdeen. J. W. H. T.] 



