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Striped Wrasse in Kerrera Sound. A Striped Wrasse 

 {Labrus mixtu$) was caught in a net in the Sound of Kerrera 

 opposite Gallanach House by my manager on the 3rd of October 

 last. The fish being unknown to the taxidermist who mounted it, 

 the specimen was sent to Dr Eagle Clarke, of the Royal Scottish 

 Museum, for identification. T. Patten Macdougall, Gallanach, 

 Oban. 



[Though this Wrasse is not to be regarded as a rare fish in 

 Scottish seas, yet there appear to be only a few records of its 

 occurrence on the West Coast. The localities for it, known to 

 the Editors, are Ayr Bay, north coast of Mull, Loch Carron, Sound 

 of Jura, North Uist, and East Loch Tarbert (Harris). Eds.] 



Limnobia bifasciata, Schrk., in Perthshire. To the 



Scottish localities for this species given by Messrs Evans and 

 Grimshaw {Scot. JVat., 1916, p. 300), the Blairgowrie district of 

 Perthshire may be added. I found the insect on marshy ground at 

 one of the lochs near Blairgowrie in July 19 12. A. E. J. Carter, 

 Monifieth. 



BOOK NOTICE. 



Insect Enemies. By C. A. Ealand, M.A. London : Grant Richards 

 Ltd. 8vo, 223 pages, 53 figures. 1916. Price 6s. net. 



The author of this useful little volume has already established a 

 reputation as a successful writer on economic entomology, and his 

 present effort supplies the general reader with an acceptable account, 

 within a moderate compass, of most of the injurious insects, their habits 

 and methods of control, which he is likely to come across in these 

 islands. The subjects are arranged according to the nature of their 

 depredations, beginning with forestry, and dealing successively with 

 fruit trees, flowers, vegetables, farm crops, domestic animals, and the 

 household and warehouse. The last chapter is devoted to insects and 

 man, and then follow an appendix giving the methods of using the 

 various insecticides recommended in the body of the work, and a 

 bibliography sufficiently comprehensive for ordinary purposes. The 

 style of the book is plain and straightforward, and on pp. 157 and 158 

 we find an amusing quotation from Mark Twain on the habits of ants. 

 On p. no, 1. 5, Prophila should be Piophila, and again on p. 222 of the 

 index. 



