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in Ayrshire," by Robert W. S. Wilson ; " Black Guillemot, Storm Petrel, 

 and Manx Shearwater, off the Ayrshire coast " (unsigned) ; and " Great 

 Skua in Bute," by Chas. Kirk. 



In a list of "Census Authentications" published by W. Denison 



Roebuck in the Journal of Conchology for ist January 1913 (pp. 13 and 14), 



the following species of Mollusca are recorded for Forfarshire : Planorbis 



fontanus and Pisidium nitidum, Balgavie Loch ; Pisidium subfruncatum, 



Rescobie Loch. [Mollusca] 



In the Glasgow Naturalist '(vol. v., No. i, November 1912, pp. 15-19) 

 Anderson Fergusson publishes a paper on " Dytiscus lapponicus, Gyll., 

 in Arran." Some doubt existed as to the occurrence of this species of 

 Water Beetle in the Clyde area, and the author after visiting six lochs in 

 the island in question, succeeded in finding eight specimens in one of 

 them. We trust that some of these were afterwards liberated, since 

 this small loch is apparently the only known locality in the Clyde area 

 where the beetle occurs. [Coleoptera.] 



The Moth Hybernia aurantiaria is recorded from the Isle of Skye by 

 the Rev. Arthur S. Hoole. Three examples were taken at Kyleakin in 

 November last, one of which shows considerable variation from the 

 typical coloration {Entomologist, January 1913, p. 19). [Lepidnptera.] 



A. E. J. Carter, in the January number of the Entomologists Monthly 

 Magazine (p. 17), records the occurrence of Norellia spinigera, Ztt., in the 

 Blairgowrie district. According to Colonel Yerbury, this species 

 required confirmation as a British insect. In an appended editorial 

 note the fly is also recorded from Nethy Bridge and three English 

 localities. | Diptera.] 



Richard S. Bagnall, in a paper entitled "A Further Contribution 

 towards a Knowledge of the British Thysanoptera (Terebrantia)," and 

 published in the Journal of Economic Biology for December last 

 (pp. 189-194), records the occurrence of Aptinothrips nitidulus, Hal., 

 on maritime plants in Ettrick Bay, Bute, and at Lochgoilhead. 

 [Thysanoptera.] 



In a further paper on British Symphyla, published in the Trails, of the 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. of Northumberland, etc. (New Series, vol. iv., pp. 171- 

 176), R. S. Bagnall records seven species recently found in Scotland 

 by himself and W. Evans. The localities in which they were collected 

 are all in the Clyde and Forth areas. [Myriapoda.] 



In No. xxxiv. of the "Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St 

 Andrews, published by Prof. M'Intosh in the Januaiy number of the 

 Annals and Magazine of Natural History (pp. 83-130, plates ii. and 

 iii.), a useful and interesting account of the British Maldanidce is given 

 (No. 2, pp. 84-115). Students of our native marine Worms will find 

 therein valuable notes and descriptions of all the species (seventeen in 

 number) hitherto recorded from British waters. Numerous references to 

 Scottish localities are also included. [Vermes.] 



