33 2 The Scottish Naturalist. 



1SS8 {Jan. ) Post-glacial Insects, by Alfred Bell, enumerates all the 

 known British Post-glacial fossil insects, including as Scotch Dyliscus sp., 

 from Glasgow; Geotrupes sp., in peat from East Scotland; and Dicaera 

 (allied to Tipula), in Wigtonshire. 



{Feb.) Lepidoptera of the Outer Hebrides, by Richard South, 



enumerates many additions to the records in the earlier volumes of the 

 Scottish Naturalist ; and remarks upon the more interesting varieties found in 

 the islands. 



Distribution of Lepidoptera in the Outer Hebrides, 

 Orkney, and Shetland, by Richard South. 



Contributions towards a List of the Varieties of Noctuse 

 occurring in British Islands, by J. w. Tutt ; the Scotch .. forms 

 mentioned in this article are : Cymatophora Or F., var. flavistigmata Tutt, 

 var. Scotica Tutt, C. duplaris L., var. obscura Tutt, Asphalia flavicornis L. , 

 var. Scotica Staudinger. 



{March). In a continuation of the above paper are mentioned the following 

 varieties from Scotland : Acronycta Rumicis L., var. Solids Stainton, A. 

 Menyanthidis Vw. , v. Scdicis Curtis and v. Scotica Tutt. Coleoptera taken 

 in 1887, by Alfred Beaumont, is a list of captures of Water-beetles, of which 

 there were taken in Scotland Coelambus novemlineatus (near Alloa), Dero- 

 nectes assimilis (Dollar), Hydroporus Davisi (Colinton, Midlothian), H. 

 rivalis (Dollar), H. melanarins (Culross), H. nigrita, H. obscurus (Dollar), 

 H. discretus (Pentlands), H. literatus (Culross), H. Morio (Culross), H. tristis 

 (Culross), H. umbrosus (Culross), H. vittula (Dollar), H. incognitas (Alloa), 

 //. rufifrons (Dollar), H. longulm (Pentlands), H. obsoletus (Pentlands), 

 H. ferrugineus (Newhaven), Agabus afftnis (Dollar), A. unguicidaris (Alloa), 

 A. femorcdis (Culross), A. arcticus (Culross). 



(.4 pril). Distribution of Lepidoptera in the Outer He- 

 brides, Orkney, and Shetland, by Richard South, gives thirty 

 additions tothe list of species in the February Entomologist, and adds con- 

 siderably to the numbers for the several districts. 



JOURNAL OP BOTANY, 18S7 {June). Notes on some 

 .Hants of Northern Scotland observed in July, 1886 

 (pp. 165-69), by E. J. Hanbury, F.L.S., and Rev. E. S. Marshall, M.A., 

 F. L.S., is a valuable contribution to the county records for Caithness, 

 West Sutherland, and South Aberdeen, along with one or two records for 

 Elgin. The results are summed by Mr. Bennet in our pages. 



{July). Notes on Isoetes (pp. 206-7) by Arthur Bennett, F.L. S., 



gives the conclusions of Dr. Caspary on a collection of British specimens, 



among which were Isoetes lacustris f. vidgaris, " stricta, elatior, et longi- 



folio, from Loch Brandy, Forfar, and J. echinospora from Loch of Park, S. 



Aberdeen. 



{August). --Arabis alpina in Skye (p. 247), by H. C. Hart. 

 {September). Rubus Leesh in Scotland (p. 3 r 4)> by A. Craig- 



Christie, records the occurrence of the plant at Moffat. 



{October). Supplement to Notes on Rubi, No. 2 (pp. 327-33), 



by Prof. Babington, is a review, with comments, on a valuable paper by Prof. 

 Areschong, entitled, Some Observations on the Genus Rubus, 

 Part 1, Comparative Examination of the Rubi in the Scan- 



