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These additions bring up the total number of species on authen 

 ticated record for the vice-county to 44. 1 



9. Mollusea in Elginshire. — In August 1891 Mr. Evans sent 

 me the following species from Castle Roy, close to Nethy Bridge, 

 which is politically in Inverness-shire, but really in Elginshire 

 according to the Watsonian system of vice-counties which is followed 

 in botanical and conchological work. 



Arion circumscriptus ( = A. bourguignati of my former papers), A. 

 minimus^ Limax arborum var. nemorosa, Agriolimax agrestis^ Vitrina 

 pellucida, Zonites alliarius, Helix pulchella, Vertigo pygmcea, and Zua 

 lubrica^ none of them being additions to the list. 



From Grantown, about the same time, Mr. Evans sent me Arion 

 circumscriptus, A. minimus, * Limax maximus yar. fasciata^ Agriolimax 

 agrestis var. sylvatica, Vitrina pellucida, Zonites alliarius* and Zua 

 lubrica, the one marked * being the only additional species for the 

 county, whose list now includes 53 species. 



The Rev. Dr. Gordon has lately forwarded me examples of 

 Limncea peregra from Balnageith near Forres, Elginshire, and of 

 Agriolimax agrestis from Clunymore, alt. 700 feet, in the neighbour- 

 ing county of Banff. 



10. Helix eaperata in North Aberdeenshire. — Rev. Dr. 



Gordon sent me in May last three small examples of Helix eaperata 

 from Inverugie, an addition to the very scanty list of species we 

 have seen from this vice-county, which is apparently one of the least 

 worked parts of Scotland. 



ENTOMOLOGISING IN AYRSHIRE. 



By George W. Ord. 



The Girvan district of Ayrshire does not appear to have 

 been much worked by entomologists, so that the following 

 notes on insects, taken during a fortnight's visit (27th June 

 to 1 ith July) last year, may not be without interest. The 

 weather was not of the best, as we had only three days of 

 decent sunshine, and on this account our list, especially as 

 regards butterflies, is perhaps smaller than it might other- 

 wise have been. Our total captures of Macro-Lepidoptera 

 numbered 83 species, of which 1 1 were Butterflies, 5 Bom- 



1 The occurrence of Limax cinereo - niger is of exceptional interest, as I 

 have never seen the species from a locality so far south in Scotland before, and 

 I have not seen it from the Lowlands or the western counties at all. 



