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more recent article, which may not so easily meet the 

 Argus (?) eyes of those appointed to the Commission I say 

 I need not refer to this further than by name. It has for 

 title, " A Declining Industry," and appears in the " Yorkshire 

 Herald" of /th September 1900 no longer ago. And I 

 will only add that this article urges upon our FisJiery Boards 

 and Conservators (not to say the New Royal Commission on 

 our Salmon Fisheries) a prompt attention and a prompt 

 remedy, after these many years of what would almost 

 appear a wilful neglect of all common -sense information 

 and endeavour by others. 



A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ENTOMOLOGY OF 



ABERDEEN. 1 



By J. MEARNS. 



THE following list is the result of many years' collecting 

 within an average radius of ten miles of Aberdeen. All the 

 species named have been obtained by myself. 



As to the identification of the specimens, that may be 

 taken with every confidence, when I state that the Coleoptera 

 have been examined by the Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., F.L.S. ; 

 most of the Hymenoptera-Aculeata by Mr. E. Saunders, 

 F.L.S. ; the Odonata by Mr. R. M'Lachlan, F.R.S. ; most 

 of the Diptera by the Rev. E. M. Broomfield, M.A., F.E.S., 

 nearly all of which have since been examined by Mr. Percy 

 Grimshaw, F.E.S., who also determined some others of them. 

 To all these gentlemen my most sincere thanks are due ; for 

 without the kindly help rendered by them, my work could 

 not have been presented with any confidence, as it now is. 



DIPTERA. 2 



PlILICIDiE. 



Pulex irritans, L. On man. 



P. sciurorum, Bouche. On squirrel. 



P. canis, Diiges. On dog and fox. 



1 Mr. William Evans has kindly edited this paper at our request. EDS. 

 2 Nomenclature of Yen-all's " List of British Diptera." 



