72 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



"Field Notes on British Sawflies" is the title of a paper by Claude 

 Morley which appears in the Entomologist for February (pp. 46-50). 

 In this paper we note Rhogogaster viridis and Pachyprotasis rapes, 

 recorded from Banchory (Elliott), while the single British species of 

 Perineura is stated to occur at Cadder, in Lanarkshire. [Hymenoptera.] 



In the Entomologist's Record for January and February 19 13 (pp. 

 1-8 and 42-51) appears a valuable and extremely helpful paper by H. St 

 J. K. Donisthorpe, entitled, " Some Notes on the Genus Myrmica, 

 Latr.," and illustrated by one plate and several figures. After a general 

 introduction dealing with habits the species are dealt with seriatim, and 

 full details of county distribution are given for each. The most 

 important distinguishing characters are also briefly described, as well as 

 the distribution beyond Britain. [Hymenoptera.] 



A paper entitled "British Orthoptera in 1912," from the pen of W. 

 J. Lucas, appears in the February issue of the Entomologist (pp. 42-46). 

 We note the following Scottish records : Gomphocerus maculatus at 

 Kirkcowan, Wigtownshire, and Craigton, Linlithgowshire ; Omocestus 

 viridulus at Kirkcowan, Kirkliston, and the Linlithgow and Bathgate 

 hills ; and Stauroderus bico lor near Kirkcowan station. All these records 

 are from specimens captured by our valued contributor, S. E. Brock. 

 [Orthoptera.] 



The first volume of the British Museum Catalogue of Bristle Worms, 

 in which J. H. Ashworth describes the Arenicolidae, has just been 

 published. Apart from its detailed and valuable general accounts of 

 this family of worms, the volume contains much interesting information 

 regarding the structure, habits, and distribution of the three species 

 which have been recorded from Scottish coasts. These are the familiar 

 Lob- or Lug-Worm, Are?iicola marina, common in the Firth of Forth, 

 Berwick Bay, Shetland, Millport, and probably on most sandy or muddy 

 beaches ; and the two tailless species A. ecaudata, from Cumbrae, Loch 

 Maddy, and Loch Sween, and A. branchialis, from Millport, Loch 

 Maddy, and Port Appin on Loch Linnhe. [Vermes.] 



In the Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (vol. 

 xix., pp. 1-5, January 1913) James Ritchie publishes a "Note on the 

 Type Specimens of Plumularia catharina, Johnston, and its so-called 

 ' stemless variety.'" The author finds that the type specimens "have, 

 in addition to the pair of supracalycine sarcothecae usually described and 

 figured, a smaller supernumerary pair lying at the base of the former." 

 He also comes to the conclusion that the reputed "stemless variety" is 

 a distinct species, viz., Antenella secundaria (Cavol.). [Ccelenterata.] 



