120 TPIE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



The Woodlice of Scotland. — For some years past I have 

 been engaged upon a Monograph of the Woodlice of the British 

 Isles, and had it not been for the present European War, the first 

 part would have been published ere now. One of the features of 

 the work will be an exhaustive record of the distribution of the 

 various species, which has now become fairly complete for England 

 and Ireland, but still remains very incomplete for Scotland. 

 Robertson in i8S8 recorded the species occurring in the Clyde dis- 

 trict, and Dr Thomas Scott in 1891 and 1906 those of the Edinburgh 

 district, the only previous record being, I believe, that of Thomas 

 Edwards for Banff. Patience in 1908 also revised the records 

 of the Clyde district. Apart from these the actual records are 

 extremely few. 



I feel sure that there are many Scotch naturalists who would 

 be willing to help to increase these records, if they knew that such 

 were desired. May I invite such assistance, which will be very 

 cordially welcomed and gratefully acknowledged. Specimens should 

 be placed on collecting in small glass tubes or bottles containing a 

 little 75 per cent, alcohol. A small piece of tissue paper should 

 be placed in the tubes or bottles in order to prevent the specimens 

 becoming damaged in transit. — W. E. Collinge, 3 Queen's Terrace, 

 ■) St Andrews. 



Laemobothrium tinnunculi (L.), from a Kestrel in the 

 Forth Area. — Among a number of JNIallophaga taken in the 

 Forth district since the publication of my list in Proc. Roy. Phys. 

 Society, 1912 (vol. xviii., p. 265), there is a species of Lizmo- 

 bothrium, a genus remarkable in this order for the large size of its 

 members. My specimens — one adult and three immature — were 

 sent me by Lance-Corpl. W. M. Ingles, who took them off a Kestrel 

 which was found dead at Dysart, Fife, on 15th January 1916. The 

 adult specimen (?) is quite 8 mm. in length. Two closely allied 

 species are stated to occur on the Kestrel, namely, Z. giganteum, N. 

 (^ = tinnunculi J L.), and L. titan, Piaget. According to Mjbberg's 

 figures of the heads of these, the Fife specimens do not exactly 

 correspond with either form, but occupy a somewhat intermediate 

 position, nearer, however, to the former than to the latter. Denny's 

 L. laticolle, from a Hobby in England, was evidently a very similar 

 insect to mine, which is probably the Pediculus tinnunculi of 

 Linnaeus. — William Evans, Edinburgh. 



