140 The Scottish Naturalist. 



this group, brought up to date, and gives localities. The following are new 

 records for Scotlai d : Claviceps microcephala Tul. on Anthoxanthum and 

 Holcus lanatus; Hypocrea fungicola Karst., on Polyporus, Darnaway Forest,. 

 British Sphaeropsideae, Phoma macrocapsa, Trail (Scot. Nat., 1886,} 

 is wrongly quoted as Phoma macrocarpa. [December.) British Pyre- 

 nomycetes, by G. Massee, enumerates from Scotland : Rhylisma 

 Andromedaz Fr. on living leaves of Andromeda polifolia, Dundee. 



(1887, March.) British Pyrenomycetes, by G. Massee (continued),, 

 notes, Valsa Syringtz Ntke. on branches of Syringa, from Bot. Gardens,. 

 Edinburgh; V. pauperata C. & E. , on Cerasus Avium, from Jedburgh, and 

 Diatryfle zmdulataB. &Br., from Glamis. Index Lichenum Britanni- 

 corum by Rev. J. M. Crombie, Part I., concluded. 



(June.) British Sphaeropsideae, additions, including the records of 

 new British species contained in the April Scot. Nat., and a few other Scotch 

 records omitted from the previous lists by oversight. New British 

 Fungi, by M. C. Cooke, notes (with description); Panus patellaria Fr.,. 

 found by Dr. Keith on branches of cherry at Forres ; and quotes the descrip- 

 tions of the new species from the April Scot. Nat. Some New British 

 Discomycetes, by W. Philips, F. L.S., describes Dermatea Fagi sp. n.,. 

 off Beech bark from Kingcausie, near Aberdeen, in October. British 

 Pyrenomycetes, by G. Massee, continued, enumerates Valsa (Chorostate) 

 Carpini Pers., on Walnut, Hornbeam, and Sycamore, from Scotland ; 

 V. olivaestroma Cka. on Cerasus Avium, from Jedburgh ; V. syngenesia, Fr.. 

 on A'Aamnus Fran^ula, from Forres : Melanconis chrysoslroma Fr., on 

 branches, from Jedburgh; M. Tiliae Fr., on lime, Jedburgh: Fseudovalsa 

 convergens Tode, on Rubus, from Berwick. 



The second edition of Cooke's " Handbook of British Fungi," continues to 

 appear by instalments with each number of Grevillea ; and has now reached 

 No. 762 in the genus Agaricus. 



EEVIEWS- 



LARV^ OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS. 



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