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whole or in part, the change in structure known as virescence. 

 The flowers were replaced by dense clusters of ill-formed 

 green leafy structures covered with hairs, and contorted. 

 Similar galls have been described from Lorraine by Abbe 

 Kieffer as found on C. g/omerafa, and on several other species 

 of Campanula. They are the work of mites (Phytoptus). 

 The mites in the similar galls on C. rapunculoides have been 

 described and figured by Nalepa as Cecidophyes Schmardce. 



Serophularia nodosa, Z. — In August 1891 I found, beside the 

 burn of Benholm in Kincardineshire, a plant of Figwort 

 several of the flowers of which were galled, evidently by gall- 

 midges (? Cecidomyid). The galled flowers were swollen to 

 twice or thrice the size of healthy buds, and rendered some- 

 what fleshy; and among the abortive sexual organs lived a 

 few larvas. Asphondylia Verbasci, Vail., galls the ovaries of 

 deformed flowers of S. nodosa^ and of various allied plants, 

 in several countries in Europe ; but the larvae live singly in 

 the deformed ovaries ; hence there is room for doubt as to 

 the maker of the galls in Scotland. 



ZOOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Daubenton's Bat (Vespertilio daubentonii, Leisler) in Banff- 

 shire. — On the 1 6th of July last I received for identification, through 

 the kindness of the Rev. George Birnie, Manse of Speymouth, 

 Fochabers, a living bat. Mr. Birnie informed me that the speci- 

 men was obtained by Mr. Webster, the gardener at Gordon Castle, 

 when smoking the greenhouses, in which it and others of its kind 

 seek shelter. Here these bats take up their quarters behind a struc- 

 ture which has a width of one and a half inches between it and the 

 wall. They enter the greenhouses by way of the crevices near the 

 eaves, and crawl down to the narrow space above described. Mr. 

 Birnie also tells me that a few years ago he used to see bats in the 

 castle grounds on fine mild evenings "in great numbers about the 

 pond." The specimen sent is a female V. daubentonii. The above 

 notes have a further interest since they place on record the most 

 northerly occurrence of this species in the British Islands, as well 

 as an addition to the fauna of Banffshire. — Wm. Eagle Clarke. 



Water Shrew (Crossopusfodietis, Pallas) in Argyllshire. — During 

 a short stay with Mr. Mason, the forester on Ardtornish estate, in the 

 parish of Morven, Argyllshire, I had an opportunity of seeing that 

 district and obtaining a few specimens from it. On the 22nd of July 

 while a field of hay was being cut at the head of Loch Aline, I 



