168 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



Mr Ford Lindsay ; a Dotterel was seen in a field at the Mull of 

 Galloway on 3rd May. In the Zoologist ( 1 9 1 3, p. 81) it is stated 

 that a male specimen of Machetes pugnax was obtained in I slay on 

 nth September 1912. 



In the June number of the Entomologists Monthly Magazine 

 (pp. 136-137) an important note is published by A. Fergusson on 

 Philanthus varius, Gyll., var. shetlandicus, Poppius. This variety, 

 which appears to have only been recorded as yet from the Shetland 

 Islands, and is apparently the only form found there, was described in 

 a Finnish publication, and hence has not unnaturally escaped the 

 notice of British entomologists. Var. shetlandicus is an extreme form of 

 the species distinguished by the uniformly dark red colour of the elytra. 

 [Coleoptera.] 



In the Entomologist for June (p. 196) J. Hamilton Leigh publishes a 

 note to the effect that Cccnonympha tiphon and C. pamphilus occur 

 on the same ground at Achnasheen, in Ross-shire. He remarks 

 also that the former species only flies in bright sunshine. [Lepidoptera.] 



J. E. Collin, in the Entomologisfs Monthly Magazine for June 

 (pp. 130-135) concludes his paper entitled "Thirty Additions to the 

 List of British Diptera." The following species have occurred in 

 Scotland : Tachydromia macula, Zett. (Spey Bridge) ; Calliophrys 

 exuta, Kow. (Loch Assynt) ; Dexiopsis litoralis, Zett. (Golspie and 

 Culbin Sandhills) ; Sapromyza lata, Zett. (Nethy Bridge and Loch 

 Assynt) ; S. quadrinotata, Zett. (Lochinver) ; and Diplotoxa ruficeps, 

 Zett. (Loch Assynt). Some of these have already been recorded in 

 our pages. [Diptera.] 



The Rev. F. D. Mor'ce continues his useful " Help- Notes towards 

 the Determination of British Tenthredinidce" in the June issue of the 

 Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (pp. 140-144). This instalment (the 

 31st) gives the following Scottish record: Monoctenus jimiperi, L., 

 Nethy Bridge. [Hymenoptera.] 



A short paper by C. F. George on "The Mites known as Rhagidia" 

 appears in the Naturalist for May last (pp. 196-197). In it we note that 

 Rhagidia pallida, Banks, was taken in the Forth district in January 1909 

 by W. Evans. [Acarina.] 



From a local evening paper we learn that a marked crab was caught 

 during the last week of May off the coast at Catterline, near Stone- 

 haven, Kincardineshire. Professor Meek, Cullercoats, said that the 

 crab was liberated at Beadnell, Northumberland, on 9th October 

 1912. It had therefore travelled as the crow flies no less a distance 

 than 120 miles. [Crustacea.] 



