NOTES 23 



east of Scotland during July and August 191 1 notably a female 

 example in the Isle of May. Later records (Lucas in Entomologist, 

 May 1 91 2, pp. 142-4) showed that this beautiful migrant had the 

 same summer been more than usual in evidence in the south, 

 Mr Lucas having taken it in the New Forest and Lieut.-Colonel 

 C. G. Nurse in West Suffolk, while in the west the Rev. E. J. 

 Nurse had met with it in Merionethshire. 



Another Scottish record falls to be added. Mr A. M. Stewart, 

 Paisley, in sending me for examination some Western Scottish 

 examples of Sympetrum striolatum, included a Dragon-fly which is 

 undoubtedly a female of Sympetrum fonscolombii, and which was 

 taken by himself at Brodick in August 191 1, one of several seen 

 on the shore flying over brackish pools. It is interesting to have 

 this additional proof that the migratory movement of this species 

 in 1 91 1 extended northwards far beyond the ordinary limits 

 on both sides of Great Britain. Kenneth J. Morton, 

 Edinburgh. 



Boreus hyemalis (L.) in East Lothian, etc. In the hope 

 of adding this peculiar insect to my list of East Lothian Neuroptera, 

 I went to Presmennan, at the foot of the Lammermuir Hills, on 

 13th December 1913, and succeeded in finding it but only a 

 single example ( $ ) in ground-moss under an oak. At first I 

 looked for it in patches of Dicranum scoparium, a moss in which 

 it has occurred to me on the banks of the Esk, etc., Midlothian, 

 but eventually I found it in quite another kind of moss, namely, 

 Hypnum spletuiens. Some Midlothian records were published a 

 number of years ago in the An?tctls Scot. Nat. Hist. (cf. vols, for 

 1897 and 189S). On 21st November 1903, I took a specimen ( $ ) 

 at Glen Burn, foot of West Lomond Hill, Fife, and I have to thank 

 Dr C. B. Crampton for a number, some of them just emerging 

 from the pupal stage, which he found in moss on a wall-top at 

 Torwood, East Stirlingshire, in October 1907. William Evans, 

 Edinburgh. 



