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both new to Scotland and unknown in England, but recorded by 

 J. N. Halbert for Ireland. 



Annelida Polychseta in the. North Sea and adjacent 

 parts. A paper on this subject, giving details of species recently 

 collected by the Scotch Fishery Board Vessel " Goldseeker," is 

 published by James W. Pryde in the February number of the 

 Annals and Magazine of Natural History (pp. 266-275, Plate xi.). 

 The families dealt with in this article, which is entitled " Part II.," 

 are the Nephthydida?, Phyllodocida;, and Hesionidae. In the first- 

 named, five species of Nephthys are recorded, with full details of 

 localities and depths ; in the second we note one species, Noto- 

 phyllum foliosuni, Sars ; and in the third, Ophiodromus flexuosus, 

 Delia Chiaje ; and Castalia fusca, Johnston, are recorded, while 

 Megalia assimilis is described as a new species from a fragment, 

 consisting of head and seventeen segments, taken in the North Sea 

 east of Aberdeen. 



Agrotis saucia, Hub., in Tweed. In reference to Mr 

 William Evans' note on this moth in the Forth area {ante, p. 47), 

 it may be of interest to state that we used to regard it as not 

 uncommon and well distributed in the Tweed area, though 

 seldom more than one or two were taken at a time. Round 

 Berwick, I have taken it in several places on both sides of the 

 Tweed, and have had or seen examples from Ayton, Eyemouth, 

 Cockburnspath, Hawick, Faldonside near Selkirk, and elsewhere. 

 George Bolam, Alston, Cumberland. 



Erratum. In Miss Jackson's note on the Birds of Tiree 

 (antea, p. 44) the scientific name of the Common Whitethroat 

 should have been Sylvia communis. Eds. 



