2 4 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



sufficient ! Notes are giveru of many other species, showing their 

 relative abundance or the reverse. 



At a meeting of the South London Entomological and Natural 

 History Society held on 22nd August last, Mr Newman exhibited a long 

 series of Pachnobia hyperborea from Rannoch, showing much variation, 

 also a short uniform series of the same moth from Shetland, and a few 

 Crymodes exulis, also from Shetland (see Entomologist, December 

 1912, p. 347). 



In the Entomologist for December (p. 343) C. Mellows records the 

 capture of a worn female specimen of the Moth Agrotis {Pachnobia) hyfier- 

 borea on a spur of Schiehallion, in Perthshire. The insect was taken on 

 5th August, and on the same day a few fresh females of the Fritillary 

 Argynnis aglaia were seen on the wing within two or three hundred 

 feet of the "crowberry line" on the same mountain. 



In a paper entitled "A Note on certain British species of the Cole- 

 opterous genus Lathrobium, Grav." {Entomologists Record, November 

 1912, pp. 259-260), W. E. Sharp records the occurrence of L. quadratum, 

 Payk., as far north as Glasgow ; L. terminatum, Grav., as far north as 

 Inverness-shire, and its variety atripalpe, Scriba, from many localities in 

 Scotland ; also L. punctatum, Zett., from Ben Lomond, and other 

 Scottish localities (not specified). 



As a result of a collecting cruise in Hebridean Seas, Prof. W. A. 

 Herdman exhibited at a December meeting of the Linnean Society 

 specimens of the giant Sea Pen {Funiculina quadrangularis), and of the 

 Tunicates Doliolum tritonis and Diazona violacea { = Syntethys 

 hebridicus, Forbes and Goodsir). 



Two new flat-worm parasites (Trematodes) have been described by 

 William Nicoll, from food-fishes-r-the Horse Mackerel and Sea Bream 

 obtained in Aberdeen fish market {Parasitology, vol. v., 28th 

 September 1912). 



Miss D. L. Mackinnon describes {Parasitology, vol. v., 28th September 

 1912) two forms of Rhizopods and six species of Flagellates from the 

 larva of a Crane-fly {Tipula) obtained in Aberdeenshire, a large addition 

 to the previously known Protozoan parasites of the larva. 



