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first is from Mr. James Bennie, to whose vigilance it is that 

 we were indebted for showing that the Possil Marsh specimens 

 were introduced and thereby setting my census right on the 

 point. In justice to our Glasgow friends, it is but right to 

 say that in their West of Scotland list, which I had occasion 

 to consult since my paper was published, it is distinctly stated 

 that the species was " introduced." Mr. Bennie mentions 

 that having found an old letter of date 4th January 1863, 

 for which he had been in search, he can give the date of 

 introduction as New Year's day of 1863, and that the 

 specimens, some two hundred in number, were sent from 

 Liverpool for the purpose, and were scattered throughout the 

 Possil Marsh. 



The other letter is from Mr. W. Grant Guthrie of Hawick 

 with reference to the occurrence of L. stagnalis in that district. 

 He does not think there are any grounds for supposing it to 

 have been introduced there, as he took three specimens of it 

 in one of the neighbouring lochs on the 1 5 th August this year, 

 quite a different locality from where he had taken it before. 



SOME ADDITIONS TO SCOTTISH COLEOPTERA, 

 WITH NOTES ON SPECIES NEW OR RARE 

 IN THE "SOLWAY" DISTRICT. 



By W. Lennox; and W. D. R. Douglas, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S. 



The following notes on Coleoptera taken in the " Solway ' 

 district in Scotland, may not, we think, be without some 

 interest appearing after the completion of Canon Fowler's 

 most recent work on British Coleoptera. We have included 

 those species taken by us, which seemed most worth recording, 

 either because they are new to Scotland or new to " Solway ' 

 (though some are common species;, or because, though not 

 new, they are generally rare in Scotland. We have taken 

 Dr. Sharp's Catalogue, " The Coleoptera of Scotland," as our 

 basis, since Canon Fowler has apparently made use of it for 

 most of his Scottish localities. A good deal of Dr. Sharp's 

 collecting in Scotland was done in this " 1 district " some time 



