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Tabanus bromius, L. Bavelaw Moss, three captured on 24th 

 June 1895. 



Therioplectes tropicus, L. Specimens probably referable to this 

 form were taken at Kirknewton and Aberfoyle last July ; several 

 were also observed near West Linton the same month. 



Sericomyia lappona, L. In the course of the past five or six 

 years I have taken this interesting species in the following localities : 

 Bavelaw, Kirknewton, Silverburn, and West Linton. Sixty years 

 ago it was recorded by James Wilson as occurring " among the 

 Pentland Hills " (" Ency. Brit.," yth ed., Entom., p. 241). S. borealis, 

 Fin., is common in the district. 



Volucella bombylans, L. Specimens of this fine insect in my 

 collection are from Dreghorn, Mid-Calder, Gullane, Tynehead, 

 Heriot, West Linton, and Aberfoyle. 



Xylota sylvarum, L. Last summer I met with this fly near 

 Kirknewton (quite common), Gorebridge, Dunbar, and Aberdour. 

 In August 1895 I took one at Falkland, James Wilson (I.e.} has 

 recorded it from near Edinburgh. 



Chrysotoxum arcuatum, L. One captured near Aberdour last 

 August, and another seen near Inverkeithing in June. 



Chrysotoxum bicinctum, L. St. Andrews, July 1890; and near 

 Kirknewton, July 1900. 



Gonia capitata, Dg. One taken near Kilconquhar, Fife, on 

 26th May 1900. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Roneus eambridg-ii, L. K., and other Chernetids in Scotland. 



Last summer Mr. R. Godfrey brought me two specimens of a 

 False Scorpion which he had found under turf on a rock-face in a 

 wood at Barbreck, Loch Awe, in June, and rightly conjectured to 

 be something fresh. I identified them as Roneus cambridgii, L. 

 Koch, and the Rev. O. P. Cambridge, to whom I have since sub- 

 mitted them, says they undoubtedly belong to that form. The only 

 British localities given for it in Mr. Cambridge's " Monograph " are 

 Bloxworth (Dorset) and Dartmoor. Abroad, it appears to have 

 been met with in France, Italy, Austria, and North Africa. In 

 August a living example of Cherries nodosus (Schrank), taken off the 

 leg of a fly in Edinburgh, was brought to me by Mr. James Baxter. 

 The only other Scottish specimen I have seen was got at the Edin- 

 burgh Botanic Garden as recorded in a recent paper by G. H. Carpenter 

 and myself on the Arachnids of this district ("Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc."). 

 In Cambridge's " Monograph," "near Berwick-on-Tweed " is given as 

 a locality for Chelifer latreillii, Leach ( degeerii, C. K.), but this 

 is clearly a mistake for " near North Berwick," where the species 

 was taken in September 1882 among loose earth on the rocks, as 

 recorded in " Science Gossip " for December following. It falls, 

 therefore, to be added to our list of the Chernetidea of the Edin- 

 burgh district. Altogether, we now know of six Chernetids that 



