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Scottish records are given in this instalment ; Pleurobranchus mem- 

 branaceus, Mont. (offCumbrae and " in the Clyde "); Melampus bidentatus, 

 Mont. (Shetlands to Jersey) ; M. myosotis, Drap. (Jersey to Shetland) ; 

 Otina otis, Twit. (Cumbrae) ; Liniacina retroversa, Flem., var. macandrece, 

 F. and H. (Flugga Light, N. Shetlands ; the Minch, West Orkneys, 

 East Shetlands) ; Terebratula cranium, Mull, (off Fair Isle) ; id., var. 

 oblonga, Jeff. (East Shetlands); T. septata, Phil. (Shetlands); Atretia 

 gnomon, Jeff, (the Minch) ; Givynia capsula, Jeff. (Clyde) ; Platydia 

 anomioides, Scacc. and Phil. (Butt of Lewis) ; Pecten islandicus, var. 

 scotica, Simpson (40 N.E. of Flugga Light, Unst, Shetlands ; also 

 between Orkneys and Shetlands). [Mollusca.] 



In the "Census Authentications" published by W. Denison Roebuck in 

 the Journal of Conchology for July (pp. 81-82), we note the following forms 

 recorded from Shetland: Limax maximus, var. fasciataj Planorbis 

 glaber; P. contortus; P. crista. These were collected by Dr Thomas 

 Scott. [Mollusca.] 



The fifth article on "Some Interesting British Insects" appears in 

 the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for August (pp. 171- 174). It is 

 by F. W. L. Sladen, R. S. Bagnall, and J. E. Collin, and is accompanied 

 by two excellent coloured plates. Of the species figured or referred to, 

 Psithyrus distinctus, Perez, Trichothrips propinquus, Bagn., Hammer- 

 schmidtia fefruginea, Fin., and Callicera yerburyi, Verrall, are mentioned 

 as occurring in Scottish localities. [Insecta.] 



A. E. J. Carter publishes in the August number of the Entomologists 

 Monthly Magazine (pp. 180-181) a paper on "Two Diptera (Limnobiidce) 

 new to Britain." The species in question are Dicranomyia rufiventris, 

 Strobl, and Acyphona areolata, Siebke, taken at Aberfoyle (Perthshire) 

 and Musselburgh (Midlothian) respectively. In each case only a single 

 specimen (a male) was captured. [Diptera.] 



In the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for August (p. 182) the 

 male of the flea Ceratophyllus borealis is described by the Hon. N. 

 Charles Rothschild, the original describer of the species. Details are 

 given on a plate (Plate IV.), and it is interesting to learn that while the 

 hitherto unique specimen (a female) was obtained on St Kilda, a number 

 of examples of both sexes have since been found in a nest of 

 Anthus obscurus in the Shetland Islands by the Rev. J. Waterston. 

 [Aphaniptera.] 



Richard Elmhirst, in the Zoologist for July (pp. 259-261) publishes a 

 paper entitled " Notes from the Millport Marine Biological Station." 

 The paper is devoted to records of meristic variation in Asteroids and 

 Ophiuroids, and to an example of deformation in Echinus esculentus. 

 [Echinodermata.] 



A continuation of the Rev. Hilderic Friend's paper on the " Distribu- 

 tion of British Annelids" is published in the July number of the 

 Zoologist (pp. 262-267). This instalment is entirely devoted to " Scottish 

 Records," which are too numerous to quote in detail. It is interesting to 

 note, however, that twenty-two species of Lumbricidcs are so far known 

 to occur in Scotland. [Vermes.] 



