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time in such numbers, and in so many different places, as to convince 

 me that, in this district at any rate, it is not the rarity it seems to 

 have been hitherto regarded. A favourite habitat is an old moss- 

 grown wall or tree-trunk, and it was while shaking moss from these 

 (patches near the ground are the best) over a newspaper, in order to 

 dislodge any small Coleoptera lurking among it, that the Borei were 

 met with. Both sexes occurred. The following are the localities 

 and dates : Flotterston Bridge, near Glencorse, 2oth October, half 

 a dozen specimens ; roadside at Morton (the locality in which the 

 1894 specimen was got), 2 ist October, common; Dreghorn, 22nd 

 October, three; Comiston, 24th October, six; Swanston, 28th 

 October, a few; Boghall, gth November, several; Lothianburn, 24th 

 November, one. These localities, it may be noted, are all at or near 

 the base of the eastern spur of the Pentland Hills. Besides the 

 other Scottish localities (Killin and Aberdeen) referred to by Mr. 

 Carpenter, this insect has been taken by Dr. Hardy in Berwickshire 

 (cf. "Scot. Naturalist," January and April 1885). --WILLIAM 

 EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Cheiroerates intermedius, G. O. Sars, in Loeh Fyne. A single 

 specimen of this apparently rare Amphipod was recently obtained 

 in some dredged material from Loch Gair (Loch Fyne), which is a 

 new station for this species. Among the Zoological Notes in the 

 "Annals of Scottish Natural History" for January last, Cheiroerates 

 intermedius is recorded from the Firth of Forth as an addition to 

 the British fauna ; its occurrence in the Clyde district is therefore 

 of interest because extending its distribution, and indicating that, 

 though apparently rare, its distribution may after all not be so very 

 restricted if the species were carefully sought for. As pointed out 

 in the previous " Note," the chief distinctive character of the species 

 is the peculiar form of the second gnathopods a character which 

 may easily be overlooked. Sars himself admits having at one time con- 

 founded this species with C. sundewatti (Rathke). T. SCOTT, Leith. 



Gammarus Duebeni, LUljeborg., in a Freshwater Loeh near 

 Campbeltown (Cantyre). Judging from published records, this 

 Amphipod appears to be usually obtained in water that is more or 

 less brackish, and seldom in fresh water. In the "Annual Report of 

 the Fishery Board for Scotland " for last year, Gammarus Duebeni 

 is recorded from a freshwater loch on the uplands behind Lerwick, 

 and I have now to record it from a similar loch, known as "Achy 

 Lochy," situated among the hills to the north of Campbeltown 

 (Cantyre). The water of this loch, like that of the Shetland loch 

 referred to, is used for domestic purposes, which is a sufficient 

 guarantee of its "freshness." Gammarus Duebeni may be dis- 

 tinguished from the common Gammarus pulex by the shape of the 

 eyes, which are also larger, and by the posterior part of the body 

 and appendages being more hairy. T. SCOTT, Leith. 



