2 4 o ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Sphinx eonvolvuli in Elginshire. A fine specimen of the 

 Convolvulus Hawk Moth was sent me alive from Elgin on i3th 

 August last. The moth is occasionally taken at Elgin. HENRY H. 

 BROWN, Cupar-Fife. 



Anthroeera (Zygcena) fllipendulae in Banffshire. While my 

 son and I were examining some grassy banks, clothed with bracken, 

 near Cullen, on i6th July last, we came upon a swarm of Six-spot 

 Burnets. They were flying in dozens. On every thistle-head there 

 were a few, and we counted six on some. The time was about noon. 

 Next day there were fewer, and in a few days they disappeared. 

 This moth has seldom been recorded in the North. HENRY H. 

 BROWN, Cupar-Fife. 



Dragonflies in Argyll. The following notes are merely intended 

 as a contribution to the distribution of the species enumerated. Mr. 

 Wm. Evans, Edinburgh, has identified the species for me. 



Sympetrum scoticum. Lochan Dubh, Oban, 1 6th July 1901. 



Cordulegaster annulatus. Blairghour, abundant, 3rd July 1900 ; 

 Kilchrenan, a dozen, 6th July 1901 ; Loch Nant, loth July 1901 ; 

 Loch Cham, iyth July 1901 ; Glen Crutten, iSth July 1901. 



Calopteryx virgo. - $ , taken by my sister, Upper Sonachan, June 

 1901 ; $ and $ Loch Nant, loth July 1901. 



Lestes sponsa. Common in a rush-bed at upper end of Loch 

 Cham, lyth July 1901. 



Pyrrhosoma nymphnla. Very abundant in Kilchrenan district, 

 June 1900 and July 1901. 



Ischnura elegans. Hillsides above Sonachan, 6th July 1901 ; 

 Kilchrenan district, common; Loch Tromlee, common, 6th July 

 1901 ; Loch Nant and neighbourhood, loth July] 1901 ; Lochan 

 Dubh, Oban, i6th July 1901 ; Glen Crutten, iSth July 1901. 



Enallagma cyathigerum. The most abundant and the most 

 generally distributed of all the dragonflies met with. Kilchrenan 

 district, everywhere. Loch Leoid, 2nd July 1900; Loch Nant, 

 loth July 1901; Lochan Dubh, Oban, i6th July 1901; Glen 

 Crutten, iSth July 1901 ; Kilninver and district, iyth July 1901. 



[Besides these, I saw Libellula qitadriinaculata, on Loch na 

 Gealaich, 23rd June 1900, but failed to capture it]. ROBERT 

 GODFREY, Bo'ness. 



Caloearis maeandrese, T. Bell, in the Firth of Forth. This 

 Crustacean was discovered in the Firth of Clyde and off the 

 Mull of Galloway by the late Capt. Macandrew, after whom the 

 species is named, and was described by Prof. Bell in his work on 

 British Stalk-eyed Crustacea, published in 1853. But though Capt. 

 Macandrew was the first to obtain Caloearis sufficiently perfect for 

 description, Mr. W. Thompson, of Belfast, had a year or two 

 previously found the anterior pair of legs of a specimen in the 



