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fortunate enough to take a fine female of this scarce species 

 walking over a "stool" in the Burnt Wood at Nethy Bridge last 

 summer; Colonel Yerbury and myself saw the species in the 

 same locality in 1911. James J. F. X. King, Glasgow. 



Agrotis saucia, Hub., and Cidaria associata, Bork., in 

 Forth. When on the Isle of May last autumn I received from 

 Mr R. Wilson, lighthouse-keeper, a number of Moths taken at the 

 lantern in the end of September. Among them were two specimens 

 ( and ? ) of Agrotis saucia (Pearly Underwing) which had come 

 to the light on the nights of the 26th and 27th respectively. This 

 scarce Scottish Noctuid is, it would appear, unrecorded from the 

 Forth area, but Miss Balfour has kindly shown me a specimen 

 which was captured at Whittingehame, East Lothian, some years 

 ago. 



To Mr W. Thomson, junior, I am indebted for a specimen of 

 Cidaria associata, Bork. {dotata, Gn., non L.), the "Spinach," 

 taken at Tyninghame, where a few examples were captured by him 

 in 191 1 and 191 3. If there has been no confusion of names, this 

 Moth occurred near Paisley, in the Clyde area, many years ago 

 (see Stainton's " Manual," under C. dotata). I can call to mind 

 no other Scottish record for it. William Evans, Edinburgh. 



Myrmica laevinodis, Nyl., in West Lothian. On the 

 Riccarton Hills, on 17th July 1913, at an altitude of about 600 feet, 

 I discovered three colonies of this Ant under stones on short turf. 

 The nests struck me as considerably more populous than the 

 average of the nearly related M. ruginodis, Nyl. The only other 

 Ant found in the immediate vicinity was Formica fusca, Latr. On 

 the 22nd of the same month, another colony of M. Icevinodis was 

 met with in a similar site on the Torphichen Hills, in the near 

 neighbourhood of a M. ruginodis nest. Although not hitherto 

 noticed in this county (v.c. 84), M. Icevinodis has already been 

 recorded from the Forth area Dunbar (v.c. 82), and Isle of May 

 (v.c. 85) by Mr Wm. Evans {Scot. Nat., 1912, p. 107), to whom 

 I am indebted for kindly confirming my identification. S. E. 

 Brock. 



Eriophyes tristriatus, var. erineum, Nal., in Forfar- 

 shire. The galls of this Mite were found by Mr J. W. Munro on 

 the leaves of a walnut tree at Brechin in October last, and recorded 

 by him in the Entomologist' 's Monthly Magazine (January 19 14, 



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