32 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



A NEW Scottish Burnet-Moth. We would draw the attention 

 of Scottish lepidopterists to a paper by H. Rowland-Brown in the 

 Entomologist for October last (pp. 217-226), on the distribution and 

 variation of Anthrocera achillece, a Burnet-moth recently discovered 

 in the Western Highlands. The author argues that the species 

 most probably arrived at some remote period from Scandinavia, 

 notwithstanding the fact that it has not yet been found to exist in 

 either Norway or Sweden. Curiously enough the species is not yet 

 known to occur in the eastern watershed of Scotland, but according 

 to Mr Rowland-Brown the Argyllshire specimens represent the 

 western outposts of a species " which once extended into and over 

 what is now part of the British Isles from east to west." The 

 variation of this interesting moth is given in much detail, and the 

 Scottish form is designated scotica. 



BOOK NOTICE. 



A Handbook to the Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales. 

 By H. E. Forrest. London: Witherby & Co., 1919. 

 Price 6s. 



This neat volume may be described as a second and epitomised 

 edition of Mr Forrest's excellent work on the same subject in 1907. 

 To those interested in the geographical distribution of the British 

 higher animals, this book affords practically all t]ie essential informa- 

 tion desired regarding North Wales. In addition, it brings the author's 

 more elaborate work down to date, since it gives the result of his further 

 investigations on the subject, and also deals with the species added 

 since* the year 1907. According to this latest information the verte- 

 brates, past and present, comprise 28 extinct mammals, 43 existing 

 mammals, 257 birds, 5 reptiles, 6 amphibians, and 151 fishes. 



While on the subject of Welsh natural history, we desire to draw 

 attention to Mr George Bolam's book, Wild Wales a work which does 

 not appear to be so well known as it deserves. It is not a faunal survey, 

 but it affords much valuable information on the animals (vertebrate and 

 invertebrate) which came under the author's notice during his residence 

 in the Principality, and is replete with interesting original observations 

 made by one of the best all-round field naturalists in the British Isles. 



