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Ivory Gull on the West Coast of Scotland. — On 5th 



February 1916, I secured an Ivory Gull {Pagophila ebur?}ea) at 

 Mallaig. When I first noticed it, it was flying about with other 

 gulls, near the rocks. It is a beautiful adult male, with red eyelids 

 and black feet. — Leonard Barnard, Lowestoft. 



Ivory Gulls in Inverness-shire. — The occurrence of Ivory 

 Gulls {Fagophila eburned) in the Beauly Firth is, I think, of sufficient 

 interest to be worthy of record in the Scottish Naturalist. On the 

 5th of February an adult male of this species was got there, and on 

 the 7th I saw another one at fairly close quarters. They came in 

 ahead of a bad storm. — William Berry, Lentran. 



Dryoceetes autographus' Ratz., near Harela-w, Mid- 

 lothian. — On 4th February 19 16, while examining some fallen 

 spruce trees for Hylastes palliati/s, I found numbers of JDryoccBtes 

 autographus^ for the most part lying in their pupal chambers under 

 the bark. Those parts of the tree-stem which were wettest and 

 most sheltered harboured the greatest numbers. On other stems 

 larvae also occurred, and in fact scarcely a stem was examined 

 which did not harbour some. H. palliatus occurred along with 

 the Dryoavtes, but on the drier, fresher parts of the stem, especially 

 in the "crown." The first record of D. autographus in Britain is 

 from Scarborough, 1869. It has since been recorded by Bagnall 

 in Weardale, Durham. For the Scottish records I am indebted 

 to Professor Beare, who found it in 1902 at Hawthornden, under 

 Scots pine, and in 1903 near Midcalder, by sweeping under larches. 

 Mr Wm. Evans has also very kindly allowed me to examine several 

 specimens in his collection, and to give the dates of their capture 

 and the localities. In April 1903 he obtained it near Kirknewton, 

 Midcalder, on two occasions. On 2nd i\pril he took one specimen, 

 and on 14th April found a colony on a spruce stump. He again 

 obtained it at Blair Adam on 6th June 1909. The gallery of 

 D. autograplius is interesting. The mother-gallery is (J-shaped, 

 one leg of the (J being short. The larval galleries are confused. 

 This confusion is due to the fact that Dryoccetes lays its eggs in 

 clusters. As the several larvee hatch they may feed side by side 

 for a time, and then strike off in a radial direction ; or they may 

 follow the first hatched member of their group for a time and then 

 feed side by side, to scatter later. I succeeded in securing several 

 specimens of these curious galleries, and Mr Evans kindly showed 

 me a particularly fine one he had himself obtained. — James \\\ 

 Munro, Edinburgh. 



