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examination was a 9 specimen of Andrena helvola (Linn.) taken on 

 2nd July 1902, at Musselburgh. This is the first recorded appear- 

 ance of the species in the Forth District. It appears to be rare in 

 Scotland, the only recent record of its capture is one in " Ent. Mo. 

 Mag." vol. xxxvii. page 259, from the Clyde District. A. E. J. 

 CARTER, Musselburgh. 



Sphinx Convolvuli in Moray. Mr. W. Taylor, Lhanbryde, has 

 sent me a fine specimen of this moth taken at Lossiemouth in Elgin- 

 shire, about 1 2th September last. HENRY H. BROWN, Cupar-Fife. 



Calyptostoma Hardii, Cambr., in South-west Perthshire. 



When ascending Am Binnein from the Balquhidder side on 25th 

 September 1902, I found under a stone at an altitude of about 3500 

 feet, and on the " Forth " side of the watershed, a reddish mite 

 which the Rev. O. P. Cambridge tells me is an example of his 

 Calyptostoma Hardii. The species was described by him in 1875 

 in the " Annals and Magazine of Natural History " (vol. xvi. 4th 

 series, p. 384) from two specimens found on Cheviot Hill, North- 

 umberland, by the late Dr. Hardy of Oldcambus. WILLIAM EVANS, 

 Edinburgh. 



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Vaeeinium intermedium, Ruthe, in Scotland. This hybrid of 

 V. Myrtillus, L., and V. Vitis-idcea, L., has been sent me by Mr. 

 A. Sutherland from Sconiclett Braes, near Watten, Caithness. 



It was described by Ruthe in his " Flora der Mark Brandenburg 

 und der Niederlansitz," 377, 1827 ; and I am indebted to the late 

 Dr. Schumann for a fragment of the original specimens in the Berlin 

 Herbarium (from the neighbourhood of Berlin, i.e. " Jungfernsheide, 

 the Heath of Virginius in English "), also for a specimen gathered 

 by the late Dr. A. Braun. 



Dr. Ascherson x gives the name of V. Vitis-id<za Kablikiana Opiz 

 as a synonym, and Garcke 2 calls it V. Myrtillo Vitis-id&a. 



It was first reported in Britain in "Science Gossip," 248, figs. 

 174-175, 1872, under the title of ' A curious British Plant,' by Mr. 

 R. Garner, F.L.S. Mr. Garner kindly sent me specimens from 

 Camp Hill, Maer Wood, Staffordshire, under the name of V. hybridum, 

 and wrote "It was first found by D. Ball, Esq., F.R.C.S." There 

 are specimens also from Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, by Prof. 

 G. T. Bonney (1886), and Mr. G. Nicholson (1888); and Mr. 

 Baynell, "Flora Stafford.," 40, 1901, adds "Norton Bog, 1898." 



1 "Flora Brandenburg," 408, 1864. 

 2 " Fl. Nord und Mitt.-Deutschland," 220, 1858. 



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