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baby Cuckoo left the nest for the rhododendrons, it was quite 

 double the size of the Wagtails, and they were evidently delighted 

 with it, and had hard work to keep it supplied with food. 

 Lorn a C. Hay, Tunbridge Wells. 



The Great Nemertine, Cerebratulus angulatus, O.F.M., 

 from Aberdeen. On 22nd February, Mr L. G. Esson found an 

 incomplete example of this large nernertine worm on a trawl boat 

 which had been fishing 10 miles N.E. of Aberdeen. The portion 

 forwarded to me, some 7 inches long, included the characteristic, 

 thick, rounded head-end, and was of a brownish flesh tint when 

 alive. With the impetuosity of its kind, the Cerebratulus broke into 

 many fragments when handled. Although Prof. W. C. M'Intosh 

 described it as found "generally in deep water throughout the 

 British coasts," Scottish records are scanty. It has been found in 

 the Firth of Forth and Firth of Clyde. James Ritchie. 



Phyllotreta flexuosa, 111., in Lanarkshire and Renfrew- 

 shire. This species was included in the Clyde list of Coleoptera 

 (1901) upon an old record of its occurrence near Glasgow contained 

 in Murray's Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Scotland (1853). Except 

 for this record I did not know it as a Clyde species until September 

 1 910, when I found a single specimen by sifting cut grass at Possil 

 Marsh in the vicinity of Glasgow. As Possil has long been a well- 

 known collecting ground, it is possible that this was the locality 

 referred to in Murray's Catalogue. I again found it sparingly in 

 flood refuse at Lochwinnoch in Renfrewshire in April 19 12, March 

 1 9 13, and January 1916. A. Fergusson, Glasgow. 



Gyrinus elongatus, Aube, in Ayrshire and Dumbarton- 

 shire. -This local "whirligig" was recorded for the Clyde area by 

 Dr Sharp in his Coleoptera of Scotland without mention of any 

 specific locality. A single specimen, however, was found by Mr 

 F. Balfour-Browne in the Busby and East Kilbride district of 

 Lanarkshire during September 1909 {The Glasgow Naturalist, ii., 

 87). Since then it has occurred in other two counties in the 

 Clyde area in Ayrshire, at Barrassie during May 19 10, and in 

 Dumbartonshire, at Bowling during May 1913. One example only 

 was taken at Barrassie, but at Bowling the insect was found 

 plentifully, swimming about on the surface of some slightly brackish 

 water. -A. Fergusson, Glasgow. 



