56 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Addition to the List of Scottish Coleoptera. A specimen of 

 Heptaulacus ri/losits, Gyll., verified by Mr. G. C. Champion, was 

 taken by me at North Berwick on 151)1 July 1899. This insect 

 has not so far been recorded from Scotland. In Fowler's "British 

 Coleoptera" it is stated that it is found in "sandy and chalky 

 places ; very rare : Mickleham, Freshwater, Isle of Wight (Water- 

 house), Newmarket Heath, Llandudno, Southport." It may also 

 be of interest to mention that I have this year taken Adimonia 

 tanaceti, L., on the Pentlands above Balerno. It has previously 

 been recorded from the district. I am much indebted to Mr. 

 Evans for assistance in identification. W. A. JOLLY, Edinburgh. 



Sphinx eonvolvuli, Z., in Scotland. Since writing the note on 

 this moth, printed in the October "Annals" (1901, p. 239), I have 

 seen the following further specimens : 



9 , caught at a street lamp, Leith, beginning of September. This 

 specimen was recorded in the local newspapers as a Privet 

 Hawk-moth (Sphinx ligustri}. 



9 , Newhaven, September. 



o*, Dunbar, 3oth September, sent to me by Mr. D. Bruce. 



Mr. H. W. Marsden, Bristol, writes me that he got a $ at 

 Inverness on i2th September. 



I may mention that Mr. Harold Raeburn has kindly given me 

 two specimens ( $ 's) which he got on the Continent in August (one 

 knocked down in the Gare de Lyon, Paris, on the iSth, the other 

 picked up dead at about 8800 feet on the Corner Glacier, Switzer- 

 land, on the 22rd), and that I have heard of one being caught 

 on a Leith vessel a few miles off the continental coast. It is 

 perhaps worthy of remark that, of the nine instances in which the 

 sex has been noted, all except one the latest have been females. 

 I imagine that the caterpillars recorded were from eggs laid by 

 immigrant females which arrived in June or July. WILLIAM EVANS, 

 Edinburgh. 



Notozus panzeri, F., in Scotland. Among some Aculeate 

 Hymenoptera which Mr. B. McGowan, Dumfries, recently sent me 

 to name, I was pleased to find an example of this pretty little 

 Chrysid. Mr. McGowan tells me it and another were taken by 

 himself on Lochar Moss, Dumfriesshire, in July 1900. I have 

 shown the specimen to the Rev. F. D. Morice, who confirms my 

 identification. This is a most interesting addition to my short list 

 of Scottish Chrysids, printed in this Magazine for April last (1901, 

 p. 1 1 8). WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Rhyssa persuasoria, Z., in Moray. I am indebted to my 

 friend Mr. G. Muirhead, Speybank, Fochabers, for a specimen ( 9 ) 

 of this remarkable Ichneumon-fly a parasite of Sirex gigas which 



