114 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



Barn O-wl in the Glasgo^w District. — I found a dead 

 Barn Owl here on 27th February. The only other occasions on 

 which I have seen a Barn Owl here were in October 1912. In 

 Mr John Paterson's paper in The Glasgow Naturalist, on "The 

 Birds of the Glasgow District,'' he said, " I have only heard of the 

 Barn Owl at Cathcart and Milngavie in recent years. I have never 

 seen it myself." A keen observer of bird life who lives a few miles 

 from here tells me he has only seen it once in that district. — James 

 Bartholomew, Torrance, near Glasgow. 



Flies in a Perthshire House. — As bearing upon the subject 

 of the hibernation of flies in houses, it may be interesting to record 

 that Mr J. M'L. Marshall, of Bleaton Hallet, Perthshire, noticed 

 this spring a large number of flies lying in a torpid condition near 

 the windows of several rooms in his house. At my request he very 

 kindly procured an average sample from each room, and submitted 

 them to me for inspection. Out of a total of 236 specimens 

 examined, I found sixty-seven of Limnophora septe/nnotata, Ztt., all 

 females ; thirty-five males and forty-four females of Pollenia rtidis, 

 Fab. ; forty-eight males and twenty females of Pyrellia eriophthalma, 

 Mcq. ; one male and two females of Calliphora erythrocephala, 

 Mg. ; one male and two females of Calliphora grmnlandica, Ztt. ; 

 one female of Musca domestica, L. ; four specimens of CEcothea 

 fenestralis, Fin. ; two females of Aphiochceta rufipes, Mg. ; and two 

 Mycetophilids (each of a different species), undetermined. The 

 other insects included half-a-dozen Chalcids and one example of 

 the Coccinellid beetle, Adalia obliterata, L. From the number of 

 insects in each room there is no evidence of a marked preference 

 for any particular aspect. — Percy H. Grimshaw, Edinburgh. 



Tipula vittata, Mg., in Perthshire. — I have seen no notice 

 of the capture of this handsome species in recent years. As a 

 Scottish insect, it is recorded by the late G. W. Ord in Trans. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. of Glasgow, 1897-98, p. 195, from Linn of Baldernock 

 (Clyde), and by R. Henderson in his Tipulidae of the west of 

 Scotland {^Ent. Mo. Mag., 1901, p. 115). I found the species once 

 or twice at Blairgowrie on marshy ground. It is rather a difficult 

 insect to catch, as it rises from the grass, etc., before the net is 

 within striking distance, flies on ahead, and suddenly disappears, 

 only to rise again as one moves forward. I have two males taken 

 in June 1910, and a female in July 1913. I have not seen the 

 species elsewhere. — A. E. J. Carter, Monifieth. 



