202 2 lie Scottish Naturalist. 



viminalis : E. hitii/cnta, with a beautiful variety luneburgensis (? Ed. Scot. 

 A/a/.) i Hadena Chenopodii J II. rectilinea onc^ taken; Ca/o avipa vetusta; 

 Venusia cambrica^ in some fir woods where Pyrus Aucuparia grows ; Macaria 

 liturata : Aspilates strigillaria in one locality, and not abundant ; Eupithetia 

 pyqmeata on marshy ground in the higher localities ; E. castigata ; E. indigata 

 along the borders of fir woods ; E. absyntJiiata moderately common ; Scotosia 

 dubitata very uncertain in its appearance ; Cidaria corylata taken in the imago 

 state, ami also reared from larvae on Salix Capraea. 



Mr. Elliot also gives a short list of Microdepidoptera of Roxburghshire, but 

 as there is no standard list of these insects for Scotland as yet, it is deemed 

 advisable at present not to enter upon this group. 



REVIEWS. 



The Oban Pennatulida. {Nature^ S, n, 1SS3, p. 46.) Report by Prof. 

 A. Milnes Marshall, M.D., and William P. Marshall. Birmingham, 1882. 



Tins report consists of a detailed description of specimens dredged during an 

 excursion of the Birmingham Natural History Society in July, 1882. The 

 specimens all belonged to the species Funlcnlina ^.-angular is, Pennatula phos- 

 phorea, and Virgularia mirabilis. (Here follow some criticisms on scale of 

 measurements used and on terminology.) 



The description and figures of Funiculina are the first in English that deal 

 with the internal structure, and in some respects are more complete than 

 Koelliker's. The supposed species F. Forbesii is shown to be the same as the 

 Mediterranean species, but in a younger stage, the largest of the Oban specimens 

 being identical in appearance with the typical F. ^.-angnlaris. 



Pennatula phosporea has the male and female organs fully described and 

 figured for the first time. The male elements are shown to be produced in 

 spherical capsules, which at first sight resemble ova. 



Virgularia mirabilis has the formation of new polypes described. The 

 stomachs arise as invaginations of the surface of the rachis into the cavity of 

 large canals lined by endoderm. The reason for the truncated state of the 

 upper ends of the rachis is suggested to be the attacks of fish, which bite the 

 ends off. 



A complete critical list of the literature of the species is given, and an account 

 of the distribution in nature, and also in museums. The figures in the report 

 are excellent. The specimens did not allow of the histology being completely 

 worked out. 



Report of Observations of Injurious Insects and Common Crop 

 Pests during- the year 1883, with Methods of Prevention and 

 Remedy, by E. A. Ormerod. 



In the April number of this Magazine we drew attention to the Report for 

 1882, and indicated the observations of special interest to us north of the 

 Tweed, as communicated by observers in various localities in Scotland. We 

 have now to continue our review to include the Report of the recent year ; and 

 we may say at once that it is characterised by all the customary care and 

 accuracy of its well known compiler, than whom there is no one more com- 

 petent in the British Islands to do such a work. A feature even more notice- 

 able than in the former report is the number of statements in regard to the 

 methods of checking insect ravages, and of the measure of success attending 

 their use. All interested in this subject will find this, like the former reports, 

 well worthy their attention. 



As before, we shall notice specially only those communications that were 

 received from Scotch localities. Cabbages and Cauliflowers suffered in 

 several places — near Glasgow, in Fifeshire, and at Falkirk — from the attacks 

 of two-winged flies of the genus Anthomyia {A. Jloralis, A. radiatm, and A. 

 Prassiccc) ; and these attacks were observed to be most troublesome where 



