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Crabro peltarius, Schreb., in East Lothian, and Osmia 

 rufa, L.,in Midlothian (Forth). On 17th June 1916 I captured 

 a male of Crabro peltarius on the links about a mile east of Port 

 Seton, East Lothian, as it settled on a burnet rose. This is the only 

 occasion on which I have recognised this Aculeate in Forth, and so 

 far as I know it is the first record for the area. Its near ally, 

 C. cribrarius, is a common insect with us. 



To Mr J. W. Bowhill I am indebted for a male of Osmia rufa, 

 which he caught on the roadside near Hawthornden station, 

 Midlothian, on 29th May 1903. This seems to be but the second 

 Forth record, the first being that of a female from near Dunbar, 

 7th July 1900 (see my note in Ent. Mo. Mag., 1900, p. 265). 

 William Evans, Edinburgh. 



Venusia cambrica, Curt., in Midlothian (Forth). 

 While collecting in the woods above Polton, Midlothian, on 

 20th July this year, I detected two examples of the "Welsh Wave" 

 ( Venusia cambrica) at rest on the trunk of an oak. Both were 

 secured, and proved to be males. In a paper on Forth Lepidoptera 

 in Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist, for July 1905, I recorded a specimen of 

 this moth from Luffness Woods, East Lothian (July 1904), and 

 I have another taken at Tyninghame in the same county in July 

 1 910. Miss Balfour, as she has kindly informed me, has also one 

 taken in East Lothian, so long ago as 1881. These are the only 

 Forth records known to me. William Evans, Edinburgh. 



Molluscan Authentications for Dumbartonshire. Mr 



William Rennie has submitted specimens of various mollusca found 

 at Milngavie, on the banks of the Allander, 9th June 191 7 includ- 

 ing an example of Pisidium nitidum, not before authenticated for 

 this Vice-county. He also examined the soft mud flat left by the 

 lowering of level of the Clober Dam, fed from the Allander Water, 

 Milngavie, on the 16th June 191 7, and found Limncea peregra 

 plentiful, quite a number of Valvata piscinalis, and one fine example 

 of Planorbis contortus. He allowed me to see the last two, which 

 are new authentications for Co. Dumbarton, as are also examples of 

 Sphcerium corneum, Pisidium subtruncatum, Arion subfuscus, and 

 Agriolimax l&vis, found by the same observer in and near Clober 

 Dam, 14th July 191 7. Assistance of this kind throughout Scotland 

 is much valued and appreciated for the Conchological Society's 

 Census and records. W. Denison Roebuck, 259 Hyde Park 

 Road, Leeds. 



