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Cidaria miata in Shetland. On the 20th of September, I 

 captured a specimen of the Autumn Green Carpet Moth at Balta- 

 sound, Unst, and sent it to the Editors of the Scottish Naturalist 

 for identification. They inform me that, so far as they are aware, 

 this moth has not hitherto been recorded for the Shetland Isles, 

 though it is known to occur in the Orkneys. Ida M. Saxdv, 

 Baltasound, Unst. 



Atylotus fulvus, Mg. ; near Dunkeld. A fine female of 

 this rare Tabanid fly was taken on nth July 191 7 by my friend 

 Mr A. J. Meacher of Marlee, Blairgowrie, while collecting 

 Lepidoptera near Dunkeld, Perthshire. It was sent to me 

 recently with other flies. So far there have been only two records 

 of this species from Scotland Banchory, where it was taken by Mr 

 J. Mearns (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag.., 1901, p. 44), and Aberfoyle, where I 

 got a female on 3rd July 1901 (A.S.JV.ff., 1909, p. 94). The latter 

 specimen is in the Royal Scottish Museum. A. E. J. Carter, 

 Monifieth. 



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Hoopoe in Inverness-shirk. While fishing on the Beauly 

 River on the 28th of August, Mr F. P. Whitbread saw a Hoopoe 

 (Upi/pa epops). -Field, 15th September 191 7. 



Salpingus ater, Pavk., in East Lothian. The capture of an 

 example of this beetle at Penston, on 10th June, is recorded by 

 Lieut. J. E. Black in the Entomologists' Monthly Magazine for 

 August last, p, 182. 



Rhyssa persuasoria, L., in the South of Scotland. In the 

 Entomologists' Monthly Magazine for September, p. 212, William 

 Evans records the occurrence of this fine Ichneumon fly in 

 Roxburghshire and Midlothian. 



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SlREX GIGAS AND S. JUVENCUS IN RENFREWSHIRE. A. M. 



Stewart, The Entomologist, November 191 7, p. 257. Three 

 specimens of the former and one of the latter captured during 

 August, and several others of S. gigas reported. 



