132 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



EARLY APPEARANCE OF PCECILOCAMPA POPULI. E. R. Bush. 

 Ent. Record, vol. vii. p. 155 (i5th December 1895). A male taken 

 at Perth (?) on i8th October. 



ACRIOPIS APRILINA AND EUCHELIA JACOB^EjE IN PERTH. E. R. 



Bush. Ent. Record, vol. vii. pp. 205-206 (ist February 1896). 



CRYMODES EXULIS, VAR. ASSIMILIS, IN ABERDEENSHIRE. A. E. 

 Cannon. Ent. Record, vol. vii. p. 233 (i5th February 1896). 

 Specimen taken near Aberdeen in August. 



HYPSIPETES SORDIDATA, AB. INFUSCATA, STDGR., ON SALLOW. 

 J. W. Tutt. Ent. Record, vol. vii. p. 143 (i5th December 1895). 

 Specimens taken at Loch Goil in August 1893. 



PROBABLE SPECIFIC IDENTITY OF SCIAPHILA PENZIANA AND S. 

 COLQUHOUNANA. By J. W. Tutt. Ent. Record, vol. vii. pp. 194- 

 197 (ist February 1896). Specimens from Scottish localities are 

 considered and described. 



NOTE ON ARGYRESTHIA ILLUMINATELLA, ZELL. Eustace R. 

 Bankes. Ent. Record, vol. vii. p. 200 (ist February 1896). Note 

 on the identity of specimens from Torres. 



BOTANY. 



FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS continued, 

 By W. A. Clarke, F.L.S. Journ. Bot., Feb. 1896, pp. 82-83. 



BOTANICAL NOTES FROM MURTHLY. By Professor James W. H. 

 Trail. Trans. Perthsh. Soc. Nat. Sri., ii. part iii. pp. 127-131. This 

 includes various records of Phanerogams (among them a peculiar 

 sub-aquatic form of a Rumex (pbtusifolius ?) ; of several Cryptogams 

 new to the county (Peronospora violacea, Berk., and Taphrina cxru- 

 lescens, M. and D., being new to Scotland), and galls new to Scot- 

 land, chiefly by mites, viz. on Ornithopus perpusillus and Trifolium 

 minus the inflorescences were distorted, and on Galium uliginosum, 

 G. palustre, and AchiHea Ptarmica, the leaves were rolled into 

 narrow tubes. 



WESTERNESS PLANTS. By G. C. Druce. Journ. Bot., Feb. 1896, 

 p. 87. Criticises certain records iny! B., 1895, p. 345, as not actually 

 new ; and records Rubus villicaulis, var Selmeri, from East and West 

 Ross, Easterness, Nairn, Elgin, Argyle, Mid Perth, and Wigtown. 



SOME NEW BRITISH MARINE ALGJE. By E. A. L. Batters, 

 LL.B. Journ. Bot., 1896, pp. 6-u. Describes several species new 

 to the British flora, including two genera and four species new to 

 science (see p. 128). 



THE VEGETABLE ORIGIN OF PARKA DECIPIENS. By James 

 Reid. Trans. Perthsh. Soc. Nat. Sri., ii. part iii. pp. 123-127. 



