EDITORIAL 27 



Port Erin, which has just attained its majority. The 

 Report occupies some seventy pages, and is full of valuable 

 information on a variety of topics connected with marine 

 life. Of special interest to Scottish naturalists is a report 

 of the cruise of the Runa along the West Coast of Scotland 

 during the months of July and August last. A detailed 

 list is given of 259 species of Foraminifera obtained in four 

 samples obtained from (1) Lowlandsman's Bay, Jura ; (2) the 

 Sound of Mull ; (3) off Ardnamurchan ; and (4) Loch Sunart. 

 Following this are interesting accounts of " Fish and 

 Plankton," " The Sea-Pens," of which all the three British 

 species were obtained, and " The Hebridean Green 

 Syntethys" (Diazona violaced). Of this extremely rare 

 Ascidian over thirty fine colonies were obtained on a shell- 

 bank lying to the north of the Croulin Islands, the original 

 locality for the first British specimen, which was obtained 

 by Professor Edward Forbes in 1850. 



Among the entomological papers published in January, 

 we may call attention to one by Mr Kenneth J. Morton in 

 the Entomologist (pp. 1-7), entitled "Some Remarks on the 

 Atlantic Forms of Sympetrum striolatum, Charp." In this 

 article the author gives an exceedingly useful summary of 

 the characters and distribution in Britain of what appears 

 to be a distinct ("Atlantic ") race of this well-known Dragon- 

 fly, characterised by " darker femora, and usually by more 

 strongly pronounced lateral thoracic markings than in the 

 more typical forms." To this race he assigns the examples 

 from Lochinver, recently described by Mr W. J. Lucas as 

 5. nigrescens {Entomologist, June 191 2). The Scottish form 

 of the insect is stated by Mr Morton to fall under the 

 subspecies nigrifemur of de Selys. 



A new British Fly, Dolichopus caligatns, Wahlberg, is 

 recorded by Mr A. E. J. Carter in the Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine (January 1914, p. 17). A single male was captured 

 by him at Aberfoyle, on 21st August 1906. Lastly, the 

 Scottish list of Beetles receives an addition through the 

 discovery, by Professor T. Hudson Beare, of Neuraphes 

 angulatus, Mull., at Hawthornden, near Edinburgh, in 

 October last (Ent. Mo. Mag, 1914, p. 15). 



