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Larentia salicata, Hb., in Midlothian and Clackmannan. 



— As an extension of the recorded range of this moth in the south of 

 Scotland, its occurrence on Dalmahoy hill, a few miles west of 

 Edinburgh, this year, may be worth putting on record. On 

 22nd July I startled two, one of which was captured, on the steep 

 rocky face of the north side of the hill. The species is given 

 for " Forth " in Buchanan White's Lepidoptera of Scotland, his 

 record being, as he informed me in November 1893, from the Ochil 

 Hills behind Dollar, where I have myself taken it, namely, on 24th 

 June 1905, above Castle Campbell, which is in Clackmannanshire. 

 It is regarded as an alpine and sub-alpine insect. — William Evans, 

 Edinburgh. 



Reoccurrence of Pityogenes chalcographus L. in Scot- 

 land. — On 27th July I obtained a male of this rare bark beetle at 

 Blackford Hill near Edinburgh. It settled on the sleeve of my 

 coat. The only record of /'. chalcographus in Scotland is for Clyde. 

 It is given in the Glasgow Natural History Society's list, but with no 

 indication of its source. Sharp, however, includes it in his list 

 giving the locality Clyde and it is evidently his own record. — James 

 W. MuNRO, Edinburgh, 



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