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(Lamarck), 2 feet 3 inches long from tip of tail to tip of tentacles 

 with arms 8 inches long, and fin 6^ inches long hy 8 inches 

 broad. James Ritchie. 



Xyloterus (Trypodendron) domesticus, L., and other 

 Coleoptera in Renfre'wshire. During the month of April 1919, 

 while walking along a road in Renfrewshire, I noticed that a small 

 patch of ground adjoining the road had been cleared of trees, 

 probably owing to the demand for wood during the war. Although 

 most of the main trunks had been removed, the stumps were left, 

 and the ground was littered with branches, large and small, mostly 

 of beech and fir. I found the beech branches to be freely bored 

 by Xyloterus which, upon the capture of a specimen or two, turned 

 out to be X. domesticus^ a species that had only previously been 

 recorded from Lanarkshire in the Clyde area. Beneath the bark 

 of the fir stumps and branches occurred Rhizophagus dispar, Gylt., 

 and bipustitlati/s, F., Hylastes palliatus, Gyll., and Pityogenes 

 bide?itatus, Herbst. H. palliatus was present under the bark in 

 very large numbers, larviK being observed as well as the perfect 

 insects. One could not help feeling that during the extensive 

 cutting of wood that has gone on throughout the war, there must 

 be many places where the debris has not been burned or cleared 

 away, and as these places, like the one I have described, can hardly 

 fail to be the breeding ground of such forest pests as H. palliatus, 

 they must form a distinct menace to standing wood in their vicinity. 

 A. Fergusson, Glasgow. 



Henichus (Scydmaenus) exilis, Er., in South Perth. 



In July last year one specimen of this little beetle was found 

 beneath oak bark in that part of Glen Falloch which lies within 

 Vice-County No. 87 (South Perth), and in the Clyde area. Accord- 

 ing to Dr Sharp {Scot. Nat., iii. 232), it is very rare in Scotland, 

 and the only faunal areas from which he recorded it, were Tay and 

 Clyde. The Clyde record was probably based upon a note of its 

 capture near Paisley by the late Morris Young, contained in the 

 Entomologisfs Annual (1865, p. 42), but it does not appear to 

 have been recorded from the area since then. A. Fergusson, 

 Glasgow. 



