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although, in my experience, when it is found to be present in a 

 locality it usually occurs in fair numbers. In the list of Clyde 

 Coleoptera it was noted from Lanark, Main Argyle, and Cantire. 

 The Lanarkshire record was from Douglas, where Mr Evans found 

 many in rotten birch in November 1900, but unfortunately in the 

 list this record, through error, was credited to the Rev. J. E. 

 Sonierville. Since the publication of the Clyde list, I have found 

 the species in Ayrshire at West Kilbride, and in Arran, where it 

 occurred plentifully in the stumps of old birch trees near Machrie 

 Bay in September 19 14, thus giving the insect a status in Clyde 

 Isles. I may add that it has been taken in a second Lanarkshire 

 locality near Lanark on flowers of Spiraea in company with IL 

 bifasciatum. A. Fergusson, Glasgow. 



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Whales Stranded on British Coasts. During the years 

 1913-1917 systematic reports were made by Receivers of Wrecks 

 and H.M. Coastguard, of all Cetacea known to have been stranded 

 on British coasts. These records have been analysed annually by 

 Dr S. F. Harnier, who now publishes a general summary of the 

 information gained during the five years in question. Of some 

 twenty species of cetaceans generally regarded as British, fifteen 

 have been recognised during these years, and of these the following 

 have been represented on the coast of Scotland Lesser Rorqual, 

 Rudolphi's Rorqual or Sei Whale, Common Rorqual, Sperm Whale, 

 Bottle-nosed Whale, Sowerby's ^^hale, Killer or Grampus (the 

 only specimen recorded was from the Solway Firth), White-beaked, 

 White-sided, and Common Dolphins, and the Common Porpoise. 

 A valuable fund of information is supplied by these statistics 

 collected by the British Museum {Froc. Zool. Soc, 1918, p. 147). 



Birds in Shetland. Mr Edmund Selous continues in the 

 October number of T/ie JVafura/tsfh\s "Ornithological Observations 

 and Reflections in Shetland." 



Scottish Mollusca. Records of land and freshwater mollusca 

 from the following Scottish counties are contained in W. Denison 

 Roebuck's "Census authentications" {/ourpi. Conch., May 1918) 

 Wigtown, Stirling, Dumbarton, Argyll, Kincardine, South Aberdeen, 

 Banff, East Inverness, East Ross, Inner and Outer Hebrides. The 



