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been met with in every county. My specimens are from 

 the following localities : — Penicuik district, many years ago ; 

 Balerno, May 1894 ; Kirknewton, April 1903 and June 1916; 

 Boltonmoor (Haddington), June 1904; Gifford, etc., larvae, 

 October 1916; Drumshoreland, April 1905; Dunipace 

 (Stirling), May 1914; Aberfoyle (South Perth), May 1896; 

 near Thornton (Fife), August 1893 ; Isle of May Lighthouse, 

 male at lantern, 13th August 19 13. The last occurrence is 

 of interest in more than a local sense. Pissodes pim,'L.,\\& 

 also have in our pine plantations, but it is less common. 

 My specimens were taken in Redford Wood, near Balerno, 

 loth May 1903 (a pair off branches of newly felled Scots 

 pine); near Kirknewton, 28th February 1914 (also by 

 beating freshly cut pine branches) ; West Bavelaw, in bark 

 of dead pine, April 19 16. Its galleries and larvae have been 

 observed at Kipps (Linlithgow) and Eddleston. Duncan, 

 writing in 1831, mentions {loc. cit., p. 506) that H. abietis was 

 first ascertained to be an inhabitant of Britain by Sir J. E. 

 Smith, the famous botanist, "who found it in Ravelston Wood, 

 near Edinburgh." 



Of longicorns we have i&w species, and all save one are 



rare. Taking them in their systematic order, the first on my 



list is Asemuni striatum, L., of which two living examples 



were taken in a "clearing" near Kirknewton (Midlothian) on 



20th June 1916. Observing a rather large flight-hole in a 



sound Scots pine stump, I drew the attention of Mr Munro, 



who was with me, to it, and in due course his axe exposed 



the two beetles and several larva: in their galleries. A month 



later I took a dead beetle from the same stump, and found 



larval galleries in another. In Murray's Catalogue (1853) it 



is entered as " Rare near Edinburgh ; Dollar, etc.," and I 



know of no more recent record for the Forth area. Our only 



common longicorn is Rhagiuni bifasciaiujit, which is to be 



found in decayed stems and stumps of pines in every county, 



as the following list of localities represented by specimens in 



my collection shows: — Penicuik, 1869; Bavelaw, May 1895 ; 



Dalmaho}', June 1895 ; Kirknewton, April 1890 and May 



1891 ; near Dunbar, August 1915; Tartraven (Linlithgow), 



June 1914; near Stirling, 1887; old pine wood near Loch 



Coulter (Stirling), over a dozen in rotten stump, 30th October 



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