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darting off and whizzing about backwards and fonvards along 

 the face of the rock, and soon lost to view. 



M. bombylifor}?iis. — Both Mr. Herd and I have seen 

 this insect on different occasions, in some of the sunny glades 

 towards the summit, at an elevation of about 600 feet ; but I 

 am not aware that it has ever been captured or the larva ob- 

 served at Moncreiffe. 



Trochilmm bei?ibccifor7ne. — The burrows of this species are to 

 be found in every sallow above a certain age. I endeavoured 

 to procure specimens by surrounding the stems with gauze, but 

 was not very successful. Whether the gauze was rotten I do not 

 know, but though it seemed to be strong enough, they managed 

 to bore through, or slip under the edges, and we never took 

 many. On one occasion Mr. Herd and my gardener went the 

 rounds on a very wet morning, and obtained two, one of which 

 had got past the gauze, and was crawling up a branch, and the 

 other was on my gardener's back when first discovered. They 

 always emerged before ten o'clock in the morning. My speci- 

 mens were obtained about July nth. 



Be7nbeciforme is the only representation of the Sesudce which 

 I have heard of being taken at Moncreiffe ; and although I 

 have noticed burrows in the poplars which I believe to apper- 

 tain to 2\ apiforine, I have never proved their identity, and it 

 is possible that 2. be7nbeciforvie may occasionally burrow in 

 poplar. 



(To be contmiicd.) 



Occurrence of a supposed undescribed Lepisma.— Mr. Jas. Simpson 

 has sent me specimens of a species of Lepisma, which he has found in large 

 numbers in a bakery in Edinburgh. It is much larger than the common 

 " Sugar- fish " (^Z(^/jwrt! saccharinit). Mr. Simpson tells me that he was 

 informed that it is only within the last year that it has been noticed 

 in this place, and that from its active habits it is difficult to secure uninjured 

 specimens. There can be no doubt but that it is an imported species, and 

 as it may be undescribed, I give a description : — 



Lepisma ? Candida, supra brunneo, fusco ct nigro varie- 



gata ; oculis nigris, antennis appendicibusque pallide rubro-fuscis ; pedibus 

 albis. Antennis corporc plus quam duplo longioribus ; appcndice anali centrali 

 corpore ^ longiore ; appendicibus analibus laterabilus corpore oequilongis. 

 Corpore (praxipue lateribus) setis erectis pallide rufescente-fuscis vestito. 

 Long. Corp. 6^ — 8 mm. — F. Buchanan White. 



Note on the Kestrel.— In the autumn of 1S74, on return after a tem- 

 porary absence, a Kestrel was found in possession of a porch near an open 



