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blackbacked gulls and tern are all without doubt most destructive 

 to young fish and the larvae and flies on which fish feed." There- 

 fore "they are of opinion that the withdrawal of the names of those 

 birds from the protection of the Wild Birds Protection Acis and 

 Orders is urgently called for in the interests of our freshwater 

 fisheries." 



Rare Medus.^ on the Scottish Coast. In vol. v. (1919) 

 of the scientific results of the Danish Ingolf Expedition, P. L. 

 Kramp gives several new Scottish localities for various species of 

 Leptomedusffi. As these records are not readily available for 

 Scottish workers, a summary is given here : Laodicea undiilata 

 (Forbes and Goodsir) from the neighbourhood of Rockall, 2Sth 

 May to 6th August 190S, 19 10, 19 13; Staurophora mertensi, Brandt, 

 lat. 59 64' N., Long. 0-07 W., east of the north-east corner of 

 Scotland, 7th May 1905; Mitrocoma polydiadeinata (Romanes), 

 about ninety miles oft' Firth of Forth, 4th May 1905; Cosmetira 

 pilosella, Forbes, close south of Shetlands, 22nd July 1905; 

 Halopsis ocellata (A. Ag.), S. and S.W. of outer Hebrides and 

 between Hebrides and Rockall, August 1910. Obelia nigra, 

 Browne, Orkney Isles and Little Minch, May 1908. Phialidiuni 

 hemisphaericiiin (Gronov.), south end of Shetland, July 1905, and 

 Little Minch, May 1908. 



A New British Crane-fly. From the Proceedings of the 

 Entomological Society of London^ 191 9) P- xlix., we learn that a 

 specimen of Crypteria lininophiloides, a new genus and species 

 recently described by Bergroth from Finland, was taken in August 

 1 919 by Captain J. Waterston at Bona we, Argyllshire. The fly 

 was exhibited by F. W. Edwards at the October meeting of the 

 Society. 



Lepidoptera in the Highlands. In the Entomologist for 

 January last A. W. Pickard-Cambridge records the following : 

 Depressaria {Pinaris) hepatariella, Zell. at Kingussie, 28th August; 

 and in the same locality in August and September large numbers 

 of Eupithecia sobrinafa, Piedisca solandriana and Steganoptycha 



ge mi nana. 



Lepidoptera at Rannoch in 19 19. An article with this title 

 by F. G. Whittle, appears in the January number of the Entojjiologist 

 (pp. 11-13). It contains an account of the capture of various 

 species of Lepidoptera, in both larval and adult stages, between 

 the dates of 21st March and 2nd November. The main object 



