NOTES 2 6i 



Aplysia punctata, Cuv., in the Firth of Forth. Seeing 



there appears to be but one published record of this somewhat 

 remarkable Mollusc the so-called " Sea-Hare " as an inhabitant 

 of the Firth of Forth, the following occurrences deserve to be 

 made known. In January 1896 the late Mrs Rickards, North 

 Berwick, gave me two examples which she obtained there and 

 had kept alive for some time ; and now I have from Mr W. 

 Ingles two which were taken alive in the end of July this year 

 (191 3) among the rocks at low-water mark in the same locality. 

 The length of the latter when fully extended was 5 to 6 inches. 

 The name Aplysia kybrida, which is synonymous with A. punctata, 

 occurs in Dr M 'Bain's list of Forth Mollusca, published in the 

 1862 edition of Wood's East Neuk of Fife ; no locality or authority 

 is mentioned, and Leslie and Herdman were able to cite no 

 other record in their Catalogue of the Invertebrates of the Firth. 

 William Evans. 



Supplement to Dr Sharp's " Coleoptera of Scotland." 



In a note contained in the Entomologist 's Record for September 

 (p. 238) it is stated that the Supplement to Dr Sharp's "Coleop- 

 tera of Scotland," presently appearing in this magazine, is based 

 largely on the recently published Volume VI. of the Coleoptera of the 

 British Islands, by Canon Fowler and Mr H. St J. K. Donisthorpe. 

 This statement is quite inaccurate. The list of species contained 

 in the Supplement was completed before the publication of the 

 additional volume of the Coleoptera of the British Islands, and 

 this fact was clearly stated in the Introduction to the Supplement 

 {Scottish Naturalist, 1913, p. 157). Anderson Fergusson, 

 Glasgow, W. 



Ripersia halophila (Hardy) on the Isle of May. On Toth 

 September last, while searching for Spiders on the Isle of May, 

 I came upon a colony of this small Coccid or "Mealy Bug" 

 underneath a tuft of grass growing on the side of a rock. 

 Specimens were sent to, and kindly determined by, Mr Ernest 

 Green. It is now about fifty years since this insect was discovered 

 by the late James Hardy on the Berwickshire coast, near Fast 

 Castle and Siccar Point, and recorded by him under the name 

 of Coccus halophila in the Transactions of the Berwickshire 

 Naturalists' Club for 1864 (vol. v.). Since then it has been 

 taken on the Welsh coast (Puffin Island) and West coast of 

 Scotland, but not again, so far as I know, on the East coa^tq 



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till now. William Evans. 



