ZOOLOGICAL NOTES 47 



Rana eseulenta in Scotland (a correction). I forwarded 

 specimens of the Frogs which I obtained from Kincardineshire last 

 March, as recorded in the "Annals," 1896, p. 162, to Mr. G. A. 

 Boulenger, F.R.S., and he informs me that the species is temporaria, 

 and not eseulenta as I supposed. While regretting that I should 

 have made a mistake, I am glad the matter has been set at rest, at 

 least until some one with more enterprise has actually discovered 

 R. eseulenta in Scotland. The dark patch at the side of the head 

 in temporaria, on which so much emphasis is laid as a distinguishing 

 feature, may be absent ; while it may be present, Mr. Boulenger tells 

 me, in eseulenta. Furthermore, vocal sacs are present in the males 

 of both species, and are not absent in temporaria as is usually 

 supposed. In temporaria, however, they are internal, and not 

 external as in eseulenta. If my error is the means of bringing about 

 corrections in the text-books on which I relied for distinguishing 

 characters between the two species, I am not sorry I made it. 

 PHILIP J. WHITE, University College, Bangor. 



Hebridal Argentine on the West Ross-shire Coast. I caught 

 a " Hebridal Argentine " (Argentina sphyrcend] in August last, on a 

 small line, in about 40 fathoms water, at the mouth of Lochbroom. 

 This is only the second specimen of this fish that has come under 

 my notice. The former one I got last year near the same place. 

 J. A. FOWLER, Inverbroom. 



Helix lamellata, Jeff., in East Lothian. This pretty little 

 shell, which has not, so far as I know, been previously reported 

 from any part of the Lothians, was found by me in considerable 

 abundance on the i6th of last September in a shady part of the 

 glen which runs through the grounds of Yester, near the foot of the 

 Lammermoor Hills in Haddingtonshire. The spot where it occurred 

 is about a couple of miles above the village of Gifford, but I have 

 no doubt it will, when closely looked for, be discovered in other 

 places in the neighbourhood. Most of the shells contained living 

 molluscs, and were found adhering to fallen leaves, chiefly those of 

 the rhododendron. Among the other land mollusca collected on 

 the same occasion were Helix granulata ( = sericea] and H. fusca. 

 I cannot find that H. lamellata has previously been noticed lower 

 down the Forth valley than Craigquarter Wood near Stirling, where 

 it was found by Mr. T. Scott a few years ago, so that the present 

 record carries its distribution a long way farther to the east. Prior to 

 1837, however, the late Dr. Johnston found it, " though very seldom," 

 in Berwickshire ("Mag. Zool. and Bot.," i. 201). WILLIAM EVANS, 

 Edinburgh. 



Geotrupes typhoeus (Z). in Ayrshire. I am pleased to be 

 able to record the occurrence of this beetle in Ayrshire. Three 

 specimens two males and a female were taken by Mr. Thomas 



