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underground dwellers. A nest which I discovered on a moor 

 at Elvanfoot in September 1900, was practically on the surface 

 of the peat beneath thick heather and moss. — William Evans.] 



Hylastes cunicularius, Er., in Aberdeenshire. — On 5th 



October 1914 I obtained larvae and adults of this Bark Beetle 

 on a recently cut spruce stump in a mixed wood of Scots pine 

 and spruce on the shore of the Loch of Skene. At the time 

 I was uncertain of the identity of the species, but through the 

 courtesy of Dr Stewart MacDougall, it has since been confirmed by 

 Mr Gahan at the British Museum. If. cunicularius has not been 

 previously recorded from Aberdeenshire. — James W. Munro, 

 Edinburgh. 



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Larentia salicata, Hb., in South-east of Scotland. — 



In reference to Mr William Evans' note on the occurrence of this 

 moth in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh {Scot. Nat., 191 6, p. 266), 

 it may be of interest to mention that, in addition to having taken it 

 in North Northumberland, I found one in 1898 on the sea-cliffs at 

 Marshall Meadows. This is within " Berwick Bounds," but is 

 scarcely a mile from the Scottish march at Lamberton. I have 

 a recollection that another had been taken on or near Lamberton 

 Moor some years previously, but I am unable at the moment 

 to find the record of it. The late Adam Elliot had already recorded 

 the species for Roxburghshire as "flying over the hillsides in the 

 higher localities at dusk" [Hist. Bk. Nat. Club, vol. x., p. 153, etc., 

 1882); and I think a single specimen was taken near Duns, 

 in Berwickshire, a few years earlier ; but it never seems to have 

 been discovered at all commonly on the Borders. — George Bolam, 

 Alston. 



Deleaster dichrous, Grav., in Roxburghshire.— James E. 



Black, in the E/it. Mo. Mag., August 19 16 (p. 186) records the 

 capture of this beetle near the River Slitrig about the end of May. 



