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Vertigo pygmcea, of which I got two under wood at Lochan Dubh, 

 1 6th July 1901, and Hyalinia excavata, which I took in Glen 

 Sheileach, in Glen Crutten, in Dunollie woods, and at Kilninver in 

 1901, and at Loch Awe Station in 1900. Both species had, 

 however, been previously taken by Mr. Wm. Evans near Oban 

 ("Annals,"' 1895, p. 153). ROBERT GODFREY, Bo'ness. 



Clonus blattaria in the Solway District. A few years ago I 

 chronicled the fact of Clonus scrophularia having discovered that 

 Buddlea globosa, though an exotic from Chili, was botanically allied 

 to its native food-plant. The colony has been very abundant on 

 this plant of Buddlea ever since. This year I find they have been 

 joined by a considerable number of Ciomts blattaria, which, so far 

 as my experience goes, is a very scarce species in this district. In- 

 deed, if I remember rightly, the late Mr. Lennon only once found it 

 in flood refuse. W. D. R. DOUGLAS, Castle Douglas. 



Aeanthoeinus sedilis, Lin., at Bo'ness. On yth August, Mr. 

 Dunn, manager in Kennedy's timber-yard, Bo'ness, brought me a 

 live specimen of the Timberman Beetle (Aeanthoeinus cedilis] which 

 had been imported among pit-props. I know of another occurrence 

 of this same species in Bo'ness Dock in the autumn of 1900, and 

 I suspect it is frequently introduced with foreign timber. ROBERT 

 GODFREY, Bo'ness. 



[A specimen from Bo'ness was recorded in the "Scottish Natura- 

 list" for 1891, p. 40. EDS.] 



Sphinx eonvolvuli in Kirkcudbrightshire. On the 2 ist August, 

 a box, containing three fine large caterpillars, was handed to me. 

 On opening it, I saw with great surprise and pleasure that they could 

 be nothing else than the larvae of the Convolvulus Hawk Moth, a 

 surmise that subsequent closer examination proved to be quite 

 correct. Fig. 2 of Plate iii. in Humphrey's " British Moths " gives 

 a good representation of the appearance of one of these larvae. 

 The same variety is figured by Kirby in his " European Butterflies 

 and Moths," Plate xvii. Fig. za. The remaining couple were 

 much brighter green, and had a more lively embellishment of 

 spots and stripes. Either of them might have sat for the figure 

 in ' Allen's Naturalist's Library,' " Moths," vol. iv. Plate cvi. Fig. 2, 

 where, however, this fine species appear by the unfamiliar name of 

 Phlegcthontius ! I gave one of the larvae to Mr. Kenneth Morton, 

 who happened to be on a visit to Dumfries at the time, another 

 to Mr. Wm. Evans, and kept the third individual in my own 

 possession. It fed very freely indeed on the Common Bindweed 

 (Calystegia septum), and went to earth on the 26th August. 



There had been a whole batch of these caterpillars, for the person 

 who brought those described to me said he had killed about a score 

 of others on the bindweed on the hedge round his garden at Kirkle- 



