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burn south of Blackford Hill, Edinburgh. From a score 

 brought home, a series of the beetles was reared. My other 

 localities for it are Polton, Balerno, Tyninghame (September 

 1894), Gullane (July 1898), Dechmont in Linlithgowshire 

 (larvae, April 1916), Stirling (1887), and Milnathort (Kinross). 

 Ptilinus pectinicornisy L., I have met with for certain in only 

 one locality, viz., Binning Wood, East Lothian, where I first 

 found its neatly drilled holes in the bole of a dead beech in 

 November 1909, and managed after considerable trouble 

 for the wood was very hard to extract a few of the beetles 

 (all dead females). On 2nd May 19 14 a dozen males, known 

 by their ample comb-like antennas, were found under the 

 bark of a dead hornbeam. Numerous borings, similar to 

 those in the beech just mentioned, were observed in a dead 

 poplar at Dollar last May; possibly they were also the work 

 of this species. 



No Lyctid occurs here so far as I am aware, except as 

 a casual introduction in wood coming from a distance. In 

 this manner Lyctus brunneus, Steph., recently made its 

 appearance in one or two of the cases in the Royal Scottish 

 Museum, Edinburgh. In August and September 191 5 quite 

 a number emerged there from wood used by a London 

 taxidermist in mounting some foreign mammals. 



This completes my list of bark and wood-boring species. 



Other Coleoptera. 



Of other Coleoptera taken in Forth during the past 

 fourteen years, I have hundreds of records that might use- 

 fully be appended hereto did space permit. For the present, 

 however, I must restrict myself to some of the more 

 interesting. Attention may be directed to the discovery 

 of Metabletus truncatellus on the Isle of May. The species 

 was recorded in 1853 from " Cramond : Rev. W. Little," 

 in Murray's Coleoptera of Scotland ; but Sharp considered it 

 doubtful as Scottish, a view which has been accepted by 

 Fowler. The occurrence of Magdalis pmni at Bridge of 

 Allan is also noteworthy, there being apparently no other 

 Scottish record of this weevil, except the old one from 

 " Dalmeny Park : Mr R. N. Greville," given by Murray. 



