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Fungi Found near Roxburgh in 1SS6. In the Proc. Berwickshire Nat, 

 Club (pp. 530-31), the Rev. David Paul enumerates a good many Hymenomy- 

 retes found by himself, mostly at Sunlaws or Rutherford in 18S6, and which he 

 believes are new to the district. They are as follows : 



Agaricus (Arraillaria) bulbig-er A. and S., rare; A. (Tricho- 

 loma) albobrunneus Pers.; A. (T.) arcuatus Bull.; A. Ciito- 

 cybe) fumosus Pers. ; A. (C.) bruraalis Fr.; A. (C.) ditopus Fr.; 

 A. (Collybia) rancidus Fr.; A. (Entoloma) jubatus Fr.; A (E.) 

 sericeus Bull.; A. (Pholiota) unicolor Flor. Dan.; A. (Flammula) 

 sapineus Fr.; Bolbitius Boltoni Fr.; Oortinarius triuni- 

 phans Fr.; Paxillus panuoides Fr. ; Polyporus amorphus 



Fr. ; Scleroderma verrUCOSUm Pers. Mr. Paul also confirms the re- 

 cord (by Jerdon) of A. phalloides from Tweed, and corrects the record pre- 

 viously made of A. spongiosum, the fungus " so named proving to be A. 



corticatus Fr. 



[Of the above fungi we believe that A. ditopus, A. rancidus, and A. 

 unicolor have not previously been recorded from Scotland. A. fumosus (in 

 an abnormal form), Paxillus j)cuutoides, and Polyporus amorphus hive all 

 been previously recorded from Tweed. Ed., Scot. Nat.~\ 



NATURAL HISTORY JOURNALS. 

 ENTOMOLOGIST, 1SS6 (Dec.). Psyche opacella at Ran- 



llOCh, by E. Cross, notes also Stilbia anomala from Rannoch. 



1887 (April). Notes On the genus Lyceena, by Richard South, 

 treats of varieties in L. Icarus Rott. ( /.. Alexis Hiibner), mentions, among 

 others, females from Pitcaple, Aberdeenshire, which have the wings suffused 

 with violet, and a row of large bright orange crescents near the margin of each 

 wing. Certain other Scotch forms are described, including the form Icarinus 

 Scrib. 



{June). Cecidomyia destructor, by E. A. Fitch, notes first appear- 

 ance of Hessian Fly, in the middle of May, at Errol, Perthshire. 



[July). The Hessian Ply in Great Britain, by P. Inchbald, with 



-descriptions of female and of male by R. H. Meade. 



(Oct.). The Hessian Fly by Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod, reports the 

 presence of the insect from Urquhart, in Morayshire, continuously along the E. 

 coast of Scotland and England. 



[Xov.). Diurni in Argyleshire, by F. A. Walker, D.D., mentions 

 several species and varieties, including Vanessa jtolyehloro*. 



(Dec.). Parasites of the Hessian Fly, by E. A. Ormerod. From 

 pupae found at Daleally, Errol, there were reared Semiotellus nigripes Lind., 

 Tetrastichus Bileyi Lind., Merisus intermedins Lind., var. micropterus, 

 Platygaster minutus Lind. All of these are also found in Russia, indicating 

 Russian wheat as the means by which this pest has entered Britain. One 

 specimen of what seemed to be Merisus destructor Say, an American species, 

 also occurred among the insects. Sphinx Convolvuli, two recorded from 

 near Galashiels by W. Pringle. 



