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coloration, with the markings quite obsolete owing to the complete 

 fusion of the inner and main bands ; the shield is covered with 

 minute black dots, and there are a few similar dots on the body, 

 especially in a row along each side of the lighter-coloured keel. 

 The two specimens last mentioned I have sent to the British 

 Museum for permanent preservation as being fine and characteristic 

 specimens. 



I shall be glad if Scottish naturalists generally would assist 

 actively in working out the range northwards of the slugs, as well 

 as of shelled snails, but slugs have to be sent living, in air-tight 

 tins, and without food. W. Denison Roebuck, Leeds. 



Diptera from Lewis, Outer Hebrides. As additional 

 records for the Dipterous fauna of the Outer Hebrides, the following 

 Empidje, taken by me in the Island of Lewis, in July 1914, 

 may be interesting : Empis tessellata, E. stercorea, Rhamphomyia 

 fumipennis, R. variabilis, Hilara pilipes, Tachista arrogans, 

 Tachydromia notata, and Hemerodromia precatoria. All but the 

 last are new to the fauna of the island, while E. stercorea, 

 R. fi/mipennis, and T. notata are additional species to Mr 

 Grimshaw's list in "Diptera Scotica : vi. The Western Isles." 

 C. G. Lamb, Cambridge. 



Atomaria procerula, Er. (longicornis, Th.), in Renfrew- 

 shire. According to Dr Fowler (Coleoptera of the British Islands, 

 vol. iii., p. 334), the range of this rare Atomaria in Britain is 

 limited to three localities in Scotland. A single specimen was 

 taken near Beauly by Mr Crotch in 1866, upon which the species 

 was added to the British list. Another specimen was found by 

 Dr Sharp, near Eccles, Dumfriesshire, in May 1876, and Dr Fowler 

 further mentions that it has occurred at Paisley. With regard 

 to the last record, it is not stated by whom or in what numbers 

 it was found. The species is not represented in the late Morris 

 Young's collection of Coleoptera in Paisley Museum, but it may 

 have been taken by some of the other Paisley collectors. So far 

 as I am aware, no record of the occurrence of the insect in this 

 country has appeared since the publication of Dr Fowler's work, 

 and it is not included among the species mentioned in the list 

 of additional localities contained in the supplementary volume 

 issued in 1913. It may therefore be of interest to note that I 

 found a single specimen under fir bark near Johnstone, in Renfrew- 

 shire, during May 191 3. According to the last European Catalogue, 

 it ranges from the middle to the north of the Continent, and 

 it also appears to be a rare species there. A. Fergusson, Glasgow. 



