334 The Scottish Naturalist. 



ENTOMOLOGISTS' MONTHLY MAGAZINE, i8SS(April). 

 Nepticula serella sp.n. (p. 260), by H. T. Stainton, described from 

 specimens reared from larvae found mining leaves of Potentilla Tormentilla 

 on Birnam Hill, near Dunkeld, in September (1859), and in Westmoreland. 

 The description is as follows : " Exp. at .2 lines. Head dull, dark, ferru- 

 ginous, toith a still darker central sjjot. Ant. wings with the basal portion 

 uniform, glossy golden-brown ; beyond the middle is a nearly straight, mode- 

 rately broad, pale golden fascia, apical portion of wing very dark purple, 

 almost black, with the cilia {which have no dividing line) slightly paler. 



The continental N. Tormentillella .... has narrower anterior wings, 

 with the basal portion bronzy green, and a purple band before the metallic 

 fascia, which is rather silvery than pale golden, the apical portion of the wing 

 purple, but not nearly so dark as in JV. serella ; head black." 



[June). List pf British Tipulidee, &C (pp. 20, continued from 

 vol. xxiv. , p. 112), by G. H. Verrall, enumerates from Scotland Dolichopeza 

 syllncola Curtis (as far north as Tongue), and Tipula nifina Mg. (Inchna- 

 damph). Dichotomous tables are given for the recognition of the British 

 species of Pachyrrhina and Tipula. 



JOURNAL OP CONCHOLOGY, 1888 [April). Troph on trun- 

 Catus (Strom.), var. SCalaris Jeffr. on the West of Scotland (pp. 319- 

 20), by A. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S. This variety had not formerly been 

 found south of Shetland. 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club. Since out- 

 last notice of these valuable Proceedings two parts have been issued of the 

 volume for 1885-86, including pp. 321-586 and j. xlv., and plates I. -IV.** 



For some time the attention of the Club has been much devoted to the 

 archaeology and legendary lore of the Eastern Borders ; and most of the pages 

 of the newly issued parts are occupied with these subjects. They contain 

 much that is of interest in this regard ; but we must pass on to notice those 

 papers that relate strictly to the Natural Sciences, of which there are several. 



Notices of Fungi found mostly in the neighbourhood 

 of Roxburgh in 1886, and hitherto unrecorded from the 

 district Of the Club (pp. SSOS 1 ), by Rev. David Paul. (We give a 

 notice of this paper more at length elsewhere. Ed., Scot. Nat.) 



Eyemouth Harbour Works. Geological Notes (p. 531), by 

 the Resident Engineer. Localities for Neottia Nidus-avis (p. 533), 

 by James Hardy; Obituary Notice of Francis Douglas, M.D. 

 (pp. 538-41). 



Ornithological Notes (pp. 542-43), by Wm. Evans, refer to the 



Great Snipe and Great Crested Grebe Notes on the Rarer Birds ob- 

 served in the Dunbar District (pp. 544-46), by George Pow. 



