192 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



In the Field for 14th June 1913, we notice an article by Hugh Boyd 

 Watt on "The Heron in Scotland." After indicating that the bird is not 

 so plentiful in Scotland as it used to be, the author gives a summary of 

 the various nesting-places known to him, while the Scots pine, spruce, 

 larch, silver fir, beech, ash, oak, and hawthorn are mentioned as trees 

 chosen for the purposes of building. The largest heronry reported 

 consisted of from eighty to one hundred nests, on a small island in a sea- 

 loch in Inverness-shire. 



The first portion of a paper by Fred. V. Theobald on " The British 

 Species of the Genus Macrosiphum, Passerini," appears in the Journal 

 of Economic Biology, vol. viii., No. 2, pp. 47-94 (July 1913). Twenty-five 

 species are very fully described and figured in this instalment, but among 

 the localities mentioned we do not notice any Scottish ones. This is 

 presumably due to the absence of workers in this particular group, and 

 the paper will, no doubt, induce our northern entomologists to pay 

 attention to the Aphides, of which Macrosiphum is an important genus. 

 A list of fifty-five British species of the genus is given, and also a list of 

 plant hosts, both of which will be found useful. [Hemiptera.] 



A paper on the " Life- History of Erebia epiphron" by F. W. Frohawk, 

 appears in the Entomologist for July (pp. 209-213). All the stages from 

 the egg to the end of pupal life are described in detail, and the particulars 

 will be of interest to Scottish lepidopterists. The larva in its last stage 

 is stated by the author to have not been previously described. From 

 this interesting paper we learn that the egg state occupies 18 days, the 

 larval 288, and the pupal 21. [Lepidoptera.] 



In a paper by Norman H. Joy, entitled "Descriptions of Three new 

 Staphylinids" (Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, July 1913, pp. 154- 

 157), Thinobius longicornis, sp. nov., is described from a couple of 

 specimens taken on 1st May in flood rubbish in the river Truim at 

 Dalwhinnie, Inverness-shire. The antenna of this species is figured. 

 [Coleoptera.] 



In the Glasgow Naturalist published in May last (vol. v., No. 3, 

 pp. 89-92), Richard S. Bagnall contributes some " Notes towards a 

 Knowledge of the Clyde Myriapoda." Thirty-four species are recorded, 

 twenty-six of which are apparently new to the area in question. The 

 material upon which this paper is based was obtained at Rothesay, 

 Ormidale, Brodick, and Ardlui. [Myriapoda.] 



G. Stewardson Brady, in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of 

 London, 1913, part ii. (June 1913), pp. 231-234 (Plates xxxviii.-xl.), writes 

 " On Two British Entomostraca belonging to the Orders Copepoda and 

 Ostracoda." Both species are new to science, and are described in full, 

 and well illustrated. The Copepod was obtained off Drumnadrochit, 

 Loch Ness, in 1885, and is described under the name of Diaptomus 

 pusillus. [Crustacea.] 



