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date are not mentioned, but a description of the species is given. 

 Its nearest British ally is stated to be cnicella, and its food-plant 

 supposed to be some Composite or Umbellifer. Abroad, it occurs 

 from Lapland southwards to the Corinthian Alps. 



Miscodera arctica, Payk., in the Forth Area— On 4th 



September 1906 I found an example of this boreal beetle under 

 a stone about 100 yards to the south of the cairn, on the summit of 

 Ben Ledi. This would appear to be the first record of the species 

 for the Forth drainage area. — William Evans, Edinburgh. 



Bemtoidium paludosum, Panz., and Coelambus quinque- 

 lineatus, Zett., in the Forth Area — On 4th June 1904 the 

 very local beetle, Bembidium phhidosum, was common on the banks 

 of a stream on Kilconquhar Links, Fife. The day being warm and 

 sunny, the beetles were most active, and the few I took were not 

 easily captured. Ur W. A. Jolly, as he kindly informed me, had 

 met with the species " near Elie " the previous month. Though not 

 given for Forth in Sharp's Coleoptera of Scotla?id, Bembidium 

 paludosum appears in a list for the parish of Dollar, published in the 

 New Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. viii. From Otterston 

 Loch, Fife, I secured a specimen of the rare water-beetle, 

 Ccelambus quinquelineatus, on 21st October 1905. Mr Balfour 

 Browne has confirmed the identification. The record adds, I 

 think, another species to the Forth list. — Williaini Evans, 

 Edinburgh. 



Staphylinid Beetle from Orkney. — T. Hudson Beare records 

 [Ent. Mo. Mag., January 1916, p. 16) the capture of Philonthus 

 varius var. shetlandicus. Poppius, in moss on the mainland of 

 Orkney in September 1910. He also records the var. nitidicollis, 

 Boisd., of the same species from roots of grass at Southsea. This 

 variety, now recognised as distinct from var. bimaculatus, Grav., 

 is apparently new to the British List. 



Andrena trimmerana, K., and its allies. — In the Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. for January (pp. 13-15) R. C. L. Perkins gives some results 

 of his study of the three bees, Andrena trifumerana, K., spinigera, 

 K., and 7-osai, Panz. In his opinion these forms are specifically 

 distinct and not mere races. Two of them, moreover, are season- 

 ably dimorphic, so that in all we have five distinguishable forms 

 which should be separated in collections under distinct names. 

 These are as follows: (i) trimmerana, K. (with a new variety 

 scotica, stated to occur at Loch Rannoch) ; (2) spinigera, K. ; 



