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the matter be looked into now by naturalists in various parts 

 of Scotland, and let us have their report. Even if the frog 

 is not indigenous, it would be interesting to determine the 

 extent of its distribution in this country. 



[We trust Dr. White's interesting communication will be 

 the means of eliciting further information concerning the 

 true history and nature of these Kincardineshire Batrachians. 

 If Rana esculenta has been introduced into the county, it is 

 desirable to know when and by whom. EDS.] 



ON SOME HYMENOPTERA AND HEMIPTERA 

 FROM THE SUMMIT OF BEN NEVIS, COL- 

 LECTED BY MR. W. S. BRUCE. 



Report by Rev. A. THORNLEY, M.A., F.L.S. 



THROUGH the kindness of Mr. Edward Saunders, F.L.S. ; 

 the Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A., F.E.S. ; and the Rev. T. A. 

 Marshall, M.A., F.E.S. , I have been enabled to draw up a 

 short report of the Hymenoptera and Hemiptera collected 

 by Mr. Bruce on Ben Nevis last year. The Hymenoptera 

 consisted largely of Tenthredinidae, with a few Cimbicina ; 

 and Ichneumonidae, Braconidae, etc. The true Aculeates 

 were represented by a single example of a little bee, 

 Andrena nana, and many winged examples of Formica rufa. 

 The list of Tenthredinidae was drawn up through the 

 kindness of the Rev. F. D. Morice, and that of the Ichneu- 

 monidae by the equal kindness of the Rev. T. A. Marshall. 

 These lists must be considered to some extent provisional. 

 There are few students of these difficult groups ; and there 

 is still a mass of material, Foreign and British, to be over- 

 looked and arranged before satisfactory systematic lists can 

 be arranged. It is a great pity that more entomologists 

 cannot be induced to take up these interesting groups, the 

 members of which are scarcely inferior in beauty, and 

 almost rival in the interest of their life-histories the members 



