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locality so early in the year is borne in mind. The loch is 1700 

 feet above sea-level, and a high wind a gale, indeed was sweeping 

 over it at the time of Mr. Raeburn's visit. Phenomena similar to 

 that witnessed by Mr. Raeburn have been recorded, Mr. Morton 

 tells me, in the case of allied species inhabiting the Hudson's Bay 

 country and the Alps. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Andrena ang-ustior (Kirby) in Scotland. I have pleasure in 

 recording, on behalf of Mr. B. M 'Go wan, Dumfries, a female of 

 this Bee taken by him at New Abbey, Kirkcudbrightshire, on 3rd 

 June 1900. It is an addition to the Scottish list. I detected the 

 specimen in a local collection of Aculeates which Mr. M'Gowan 

 asked me to name for him a few months ago. Identification 

 confirmed by Mr. Saunders. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Andrena rufierus, NyL, in Perthshire. Referring to my record 

 ("Annals," 1899, P- 1 5) of the capture of three males of this 

 addition to the list of British Bees at Aberfoyle in April 1896, I 

 have now to record a female taken in the same locality on yth May 

 of the present year. Mr. Saunders has examined the specimen, and 

 confirms my identification. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Meta menardi (Latr.) in Midlothian. On 6th June I visited the 

 excavations, known as Bruce's cave, under Hawthornden House 

 with the object of looking for this large cavernicolous Spider, and 

 was not disappointed --two adult females being obtained from 

 crevices in the roof. I have already recorded in this magazine the 

 occurrence of the species in " Upper Forth " and other parts of 

 Scotland, but it has not, so far as I know, been previously taken in 

 this district. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



BOTANICAL NOTES AND NEWS. 



Scottish Algae. In the "Catalogue of the British Marine 

 Alga," by E. A. L. Batters, F.L.S., now appearing as a Supplement 

 to the "Journal of Botany," the following are recorded from the 

 Scottish coasts : 



MYXOPHYCE/E. Gltzocapsa crepidinum, Thur., S. Connel, Argyll- 

 shire ; Merismoptzdia glauca, Ktitz., Cumbrae ; Dermocarpa Schous- 

 t>cei, Born., Cumbrae and S. Connel ; D. Leibleinice, Born., 

 Cumbrae ; D. violacea, Crn., Cumbrae, Oban, and Dun bar ; D. 

 rosea, Batt., Dunbar ; D. incrustans, Batt., Arbroath ; Hyella 

 cizspitosa, Born, and Flah., Cumbrae, Gare Loch, etc. ; Spirulina 

 major^ Kiitz., Cumbrae ; 6". subsaha, CErsted, S. Scotland ; Oscilla- 

 toria Bonnemaisonii, Crn., S.E. Scotland; O. margaritifera, Kiitz., 

 Cumbrae ; O. iiigroviridis, Thw., Cumbrae and Berwick ; O. Coral- 



