224 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



OTIORRHYNCHUS OVATUS. Common under stones on the shore, 



Thurso (August 1892). 



OTIORRHYNCHUS SULCATUS. One in Thurso town (August 1892). 

 TROPIPHORUS TOMENTOSUS (Marsh], MERCURIALIS, Brit. Cat. One 



under stone, Thurso, 1892. 

 BARYNOTUS SCHONHERRI, Zett. A few specimens at Moffat (July 



1890) and Thurso (August 1892). 

 CURCULIO ABIETIS, L. Abundant everywhere at Carrbridge (July 



1890). 

 MYELOPHILUS PINIPERDA, L. One at Thurso (August 1892). This 



is a rather remarkable find, considering that there are very few 



trees in the neighbourhood. The specimen was found clinging 



to a Caithness flag. 



References to the commoner Coleoptera will be found for 

 Thurso in the " Entomologist's Monthly Magazine " (June 

 1893), and for Ben Nevis in the "Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine" (December 1891). 



ON SOME NEW AND RARE COPEPODA FROM 



THE CLYDE. 



By THOMAS SCOTT, F.L.S., 

 Mem. Soc. Zool. France, Naturalist to the Fishery Board for Scotland, 



and ANDREW SCOTT, 

 Fisheries Assistant, Liverpool. 



PLATE IV. 



THE Firths of Forth and Clyde, which are the two most 

 important estuaries, have had both their fauna and flora in- 

 vestigated by quite a number of able and enthusiastic natur- 

 alists, and zoology and botany have been enriched by many 

 interesting and important discoveries that, as a result of these 

 investigations, have been made in both these branches of 

 study. Yet notwithstanding all the research of previous 

 years, prolonged and thorough though it has been, much still 

 remains to be done ere it may reasonably be asserted that, 

 even in regard to these restricted areas, our knowledge of the 



