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ing about the very spot where I made my capture. Also in June 

 191 2 I attempted to capture a Dragonfly, which I felt sure then 

 was a Somatochlora, and I have not the least doubt now that it was 

 arctica. From these records it is obvious that the insect is quite 

 established in the district, and though all the occurrences took place 

 at the same spot, there are many more or less similar marshes in the 

 forest, and it is probable that the Dragonfly is generally though 

 thinly distributed over a considerable area. Associated with it in 

 the marsh are at least eight other Dragonflies, including the boreal 

 species Leucorrhinia dubia and Jgrion hastulatum, the latter being 

 common at the place in June 1912. The marsh is without 

 doubt a breeding-place for S. arctica, but it apparently leaves it 

 to feed in the open parts of the forest. G. G. Blackwood, 

 Edinburgh. 



Chrysopa tenella, Schn., a Lacewing-Fly new to Scot- 

 land, in the Forth Area. On 8th August 1902, in Arniston 

 grounds, Midlothian, I caught a Lacewing-Fly which was identified 

 for me by Mr K. J. Morton as Chrysopa tenella, Schn., a species 

 unrecorded for Scotland. On 21st June 1909 I took another near 

 Tullibody, in the county of Clackmannan. Of the thirteen British 

 Chrysopce, I have taken, besides the above, the following five in 

 this area, viz. C. vittata, Wesm., C. flava, Scop., C. alba, Linn., 

 C. vulgaris, Schn., and C. phyllochroma, Wesm. William Evans, 

 Edinburgh. 



Clytus arietis, L., in Stirlingshire (Clyde). At Rowar- 

 dennan, east side of Loch Lomond, on 26th May 191 2, I was 

 fortunate enough to secure a specimen of this fine Longicorn 

 Beetle. It flew across the road and settled on a tree, where I 

 captured it. J. W. Bowhill, Edinburgh. 



The winged form of Pithanus maerkeli, Boh., on the 

 Isle of May. This plant-bug is dimorphous, the winged or 

 fully developed form being, according to Saunders' Hemiptera- 

 Heteroptera of British Isles, "very rare." It seems, therefore, 

 worth while recording that I found it commonly on the Isle of May 

 this summer. On 28th July, after a few sweeps among the grass in 

 one of the lighthouse enclosures, I took from my net forty-nine 

 examples (including both sexes) of P. maerkeli, of which fifteen 

 (all females), or nearly one-third, were of the developed form. The 

 species is common in the Forth area, but I have only once before 

 taken the winged insect, namely, at Gullane Links, on 20th July 

 1898, three specimens among many of the undeveloped for "i^ri-A-- > ^ 

 William Evans, Edinburgh. /v^-it^C/" 



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