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remedy suggested is the thorough draining of the ground so as to 

 prevent the accumulation of the moss. The paper is illustrated by photo- 

 graphs of the beetle and its eggs, a sprig of typically "frosted" heather 

 and the tips of a healthy and a nibbled shoot, highly magnified. 

 [Coleoptera.] 



A note entitled " Some Coleoptera from Sutherland," by Norman 

 H. Joy, appears in the September number of the EntomologisFs Monthly 

 Magazine (pp. 212-213). Records are given of twenty-two species taken 

 during the month of July. In the same number (p. 213) T. Hudson 

 Beare records the capture of a small series of Rabocerus bishopi, Sharp, 

 near Grantown, in August. A single specimen of Magdalis carbonaria, 

 L., was taken by him at the same time. [Coleoptera.] 



In part iii. of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 

 1913 (September 1913), appears (pp. 426-457) an important paper by 

 S. F. Harmer on " The Polyzoa of Waterworks." The paper is illustrated 

 by a couple of plates, and among the waterworks dealt with is that of 

 Aberdeen, which yielded Paludicella articulata in tangled masses, 

 composed of empty zocecia bearing numerous hibernacula. [Polyzoa.] 



In a letter to Nature, published 21st August (p. 636), W. A. Herdman 

 alludes to a huge catch of Calanus (about 1000 cubic centimetres) made 

 by means of a tow-net on 14th July, in the open sea off Ardnamurchan. 

 A second similar haul was taken, and the product sampled as food by ten 

 persons. On nth August a haul of the same yielded only a small catch, 

 with very few specimens of the crustacean in question. [Crustacea.] 



