The ScottisJi Naturalist. 199 



bird wliicli was obtained in this curious manner is barely separable from the 

 English species. It was presented to the Museum by Bishop Stanley, the 

 father of the present Dean of Westminster. The next collision in the Black 

 Sea will most likely be, not between " feather-clads," but " iron-clads ;" and 

 as the British fleet is again ordered to Besika Bay, a British lieutenant may 

 stoop to pick up a Turkish Malwioudieh or a Russian Popoff. — J. H. GuR- 

 NEY, junior, Northrepps Cottage, Norwich, 6th July 1S77. 



Gynandromorphism in the Honey-bee. — Enclosed I beg to send you an 

 abnormal specimen of the Honey-bee {Apis mellifica). You will observe that 

 the two sides of the insect a.re quite different, the right being that of a worker, 

 and the left that of a drone. The difference will be best seen in the eyes, one 

 of which is much larger than the other; and also in the hind-legs, that on the 

 one side having the pollen-basket of the M'orker, that on the other being with- 

 out it. You will also observe the fringe of hairs on the latter segments of 

 the abdomen, as seen on drones. — W. Flett, Dempster Street, Wick, Aug. 

 4, 1877. [The specimen — which has unfortunately been destroyed by an 

 accident — had all the peculiarities pointed out by our correspondent. — Editor 

 ' Scot. Nat. '] 



A Deceived Bee. — When standing, one morning last summer, at my dress- 

 ing-room window, which was open, I noticed a bee making directly for the 

 window. I drove it away, but it persistently returned ; so I watched its pro- 

 ceedings. Coming up in " tacks," gradually shortening, it entered the room, 

 and proceeded at once to a cake of strongly-scented soap, which it examined 

 all over; after apparently satisfying itself that it was not a flower though it 

 smelt like one, it flew away. — Horace Skeete, Perth, Dec. 1877. 



Acronycta Myricse not a distinct species. — The following extract from 

 a letter received from Dr Staudinger will be interesting to British lepidopter- 

 ologists : " Thank you kindly for the two specimens of Acronycta viyncce, 

 Gn. I received before specimens of this species from England, and saw 

 many there, and I find that they are qiiite idetitical with the alpine form of 

 A. euphorbia;, xidimQd montivaga, also by Guenee." — F. Buchanan W^hite. 



Colias Edusa. — In September last I caught a specimen of Colias Edusa 

 here, twenty miles from the sea. Others were seen. — ^J. M' An DREW, New 

 Galloway, Oct. 1877. 



Sphinx Convolvuli in Fife.— On August 24 I had a i specimen of 

 Sphinx convolvuli brought to me, which was taken at Balmuto ; and on Sep- 

 tember 18 a 9, captured at Newbigging, Burntisland. — J. T. BosWELL, 

 Balmuto, Fife, 5th Dec. 1877. 



Caparcaillie. — Mr J. A. Harvie-Brown, Dunipace House, Larbert, is 

 collecting statistics on the increase and spread of the Caparcaillie in Scot- 

 land since its restoration at Taymouth in 1836. Any one interested in the 

 subject, who is willing to impart even a single fact, on application to Mr 

 Harvie-Brown will receive printed forms showing, in a series of queries, the 

 points upon which he specially desires information. He will " be greatly 

 obliijed for the smallest assistance. 



