No. XI.} JULY, 1873. [Vol. II. 



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THE 



SCOTTISH NATURALIST. 



Edited by F. Buchanan White, M.D., F.L.S. 



C ONTENTS: 



Zoology— Page. 



Polarity in ihe Geological Distribution of Genera and its Cause,— 



(continued) -Raw J. Wardkop,- 97 



Scientific Nomenclature, — Editor. .... 104 



A British Naturalists' Agency,— J. A. Harvie Brown, - - 109 



Memoirs on Scottish Tenthredinidee, — No. II. P. Cameron, Junr., 113 



Parasites and Inquilines in the Gall of Nematus Gallicola,— Id. - 116 



How to find Acentropus niveus, — G. B. Corbin, - - - 119 



A New British Dipteron,— W. A. Vice, ... - 120 



Notes on Lepidoptera in 1873, — Sir T. Moncreiffe, Bart., - 120 

 Phytology— 



Hobkirk's " Synopsis of the British Mosses,"— John Fergusson, 121 



Scottish Galls,— J. W. H. Traill, M.A., - - 126 



Poa sudetica, — A. Brotherston, ... - - 128 



New British Galls,— J. W. H. Traill, M.A., 128 

 Insecta Scotica— 



The Lepidoptera of Scotland,— F. Buchanan White, M.D., - 129 



The Coleoptera of Scotland, — D. Sharp, M.B., - - 137 



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