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1 914, p. 229) on Lepidoptera, etc., at Scottish Lighthouses, that a 

 Convolvulus Hawk Moth was caught at the Isle of May lantern, 

 four days after the occurrence of this Shetland specimen. It would 

 be interesting to hear if any other occurrences of this fine moth 

 were noted elsewhere on the East Coast. Leonora Jeffrey 

 Rintoul and Evelyn V. Baxter, Largo, Fife. 



Exochomus quadripustulatus in the Clyde Area. On 



23rd September, while walking along a road in Meikleriggs, a 

 suburb of Paisley, I observed a small, slowly moving object glitter- 

 ing in the sunshine. On capture and examination it turned out to 

 be the Coccinellid (Lady-bird) Beetle, Exochomus quadripustulatus. 

 This species appears to be new to the Clyde area. Fowler gives 

 records for the Solway, Tweed, Tay, and Moray districts, but I can 

 find no Clyde record, either in Fowler's British Cokoptera or 

 the British Association Flora and Fauna of the Clyde Area. My 

 identification has been confirmed by Mr Perxy H. Grimshaw, to 

 whom I submitted the specimen. Charles A. Hall, Meikleriggs, 

 Paisley. 



Cionus tuberculosus, Scop., in Cantyre. With reference 

 to Mr Grimshaw's record of the occurrence of this weevil near 

 Oban {A.S.JV.H., 1905, p. 56), it may be of interest to note that 

 I found a single example at Tayvallich, in vice-county Cantyre, 

 during the month of August 1901. At the time of capture it was 

 confused with C. scrophularice, L., a closely allied, but commoner 

 species of the genus. Otherwise I have no doubt further specimens 

 might have been taken. The insect occurred on Scrophularia 

 ?wdosa. Anderson Fergusson, Glasgow. 





