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Forth, but describes genera (four) and species (fourteen) new to 

 science. 



[The Fishery Board is to be heartily congratulated on the 

 results of its Biological Investigations. This section of the Report 

 is a perfect mine of information relating to Scottish Marine 

 Biology. — Edd.] 



Note on Cetonia floricola, Herbst. R. W. Lloyd. Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. (2), iii. p. 310 (December 1892). — Eight or nine pupas in 

 nest of Formica rufa, at Rannoch, in 1891. 



COLIAS EDUSA IN SCOTLAND, 1 89 2. Entomologist, XXV. p. 313 



(December 1892). — One, a male, Whistlefield, Loch Long, 

 Dumbartonshire, 24th August (Geoffrey Hughes). A male taken 

 at Forgandenny, near Perth, 25th August (R. Lawson). One near 

 Row, near Glasgow, about 20th August (F. C. Woodforde). Two 

 at New Abbey, Kirkcudbrightshire, on the 23rd September (L. S. 

 Brady). 



Notes on the Season — Moray and Aberdeen. A. Home. 

 Ent. Rec, iii. pp. 233-234 (October 1892). — Records of Lepidoptera 

 captured. Aberdeen. J. P. Mutch. Ent. jRec, iii. pp. 257-260 

 (November 1892). — Notes on Lepidoptera observed and captured 

 at Monymusk and elsewhere in the County. Aberdeen. A. 

 Home, t.c. p. 287. J. Sinclair, t.c. p. 287 (December 1892). — Notes 

 of Lepidoptera captured. 



Carsia imbutata and Cidarta populata in Lanarkshire 

 [Lancashire, in error]. Rev. J. C. Mackonochie. Entomologist, 

 vol. xxv. p. 245 (October 1892), and correction, p. 293 (November 

 1892). — Common in August near Douglas Castle, Lanark. 



Hercyna phrygialis, He., probably a British Insect. 

 Philip B. Mason. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2) vol. iii. p. 264. — A new 

 Pyralid said to have been captured in Scotland by Turner. Mr 

 Mason considers there is nothing unlikely in the capture of this 

 species among the Scotch mountains. 



On New and Obscure British Spiders. Rev. F. O. Pickard, 

 Cambridge. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) x. pp. 390-392 and 394 

 (November 1892). — Leptyphantes pinicola and Porhomma adipatum 

 mentioned as Scottish species. 



Studies of British Tree- and Earth-worms. Rev. Hilderic 

 Friend, M.A., F.L.S. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zoology, xxiv. pp. 292-315, 

 Plate XXI. (October 1892). — Allolobophora celtica, Rosa, specimens 

 were obtained at Langholm in 1890. A. boeckii, Eisen, obtained 

 at Paisley in 1892. Lumbricus rubescens, sp. nov., Paisley. 



New British Earth-worms. Rev. Hilderic Friend. Nature, 

 27th October 1892, pp. 621-622. — Contains the same information 

 as the last. Dr. Hurst {Nature, 10th November 1892, p. 31) and 

 Dr. Benham (op. cii. 1st December 1892, p. 102) concur in con- 



