58 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



1908, p. 271. — This form is compared vvitli N. pusillus, Waterh., 

 and with the typical form of N. aquaticus, L. 



PvROPTERUs affinis/Payk,, AT Nethy Briuge. T. Hudson 

 Beare. E>it. Mo. Mag., December 1908, p. 273. 



Habitat of Anaspis septentrionalis, Champ. Horace 

 Uonisthorpe. Ent. Mo. Mag., November 1908, p. 255. — Note on 

 a specimen taken at Nethy Bridge, in September. 



Cryptophagus subdepressus, Gyll., and Melanophthalma 

 similata, Gyll., at Nethy Bridge. T. Hudson Beare. E?it. 

 Mo. Mag., December 1908, p. 272. — Both species taken on spruce 

 fir. 



Phlceophilus edwardsi, Steph., at Nethy Bridge. T. 

 Hudson Beare. E?if. Mo. Mag., December 1908, p. 273. — A 

 single specimen obtained on 13th September. 



Eccoptomera microps, Mg., and other Diptera in Moles' 

 Nests in the East of Scotland. William Evans. Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., December 1908, p. 277. — Besides the species mentioned in 

 the title Lonchoptera lutea, Pz., var. palustris, and undetermined 

 species of Limosina and Sciara are recorded from various localities. 



On the British Species of Phora (Part H. — concluded), 

 John H. Wood, M.B. E^tt. Mo. Mag., October 1908, pp. 217-218. 

 — P. fuscinervis and campestris, 8 pp. nn., recorded from Bonhill. 



Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, 

 Prof. M'Jntosh, M. D., LL. D., F.R.S., etc. Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., December 1908, pp. 524-544, pis. xii. and xii.<2 — These 

 notes include an account of an adult female Mesoplodon bidens, 

 Sowerby, stranded at St. Andrews in May, and record the occurrence 

 of Orthagoriscus mola, Bl., off Crail on 9th October. 



BOTANY. 



Note on "The London Catalogue," loth ed., by Rev. E. S. 

 Marshall, F.L.S. {Joiirn. Bat., 1908, pp. 313-319), and Notes on 

 the Foregoing, by James Britton, F.L.S. {Journ. Bot., pp. 320- 

 322). — Includes a good many references to Scotch plants. 



The Genus Rosa in "London Catalogue," loth ed., by W. 

 Barclay {Joiirn. Bot., 1908, pp. 356-358). 



Inverness-shire Cryptogams, by Albert Wheldon, F.L.S., and 

 J. A. Wheldon, F.L.S. {Joiirn. Bot., 1908, pp. 347-356). — Enumera- 

 tion of species observed in July 1908 in Rothiemurchiis, belonging 

 to mosses, liverworts, and lichens, a good many being new records 

 for the district. 



