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winter, ^quorea, however, has not again been met with. 

 The fine ctenophore, Bolina infundibuluvi, occurred again 

 in Burntisland Harbour, but only a few, on 14th June 1909 

 (one captured was about 2\ ins. long), and one was seen at 

 North Berwick three days later. Any one who would under- 

 take the' thorough investigation of the Hydroid Medusse of 

 the Firth of Forth could not fail to add largely to the list, 

 especially among the smaller forms. 



The Striped Hawk Moths (Choerocampa celerio, L., 

 and Deilephila li vomica, Esp.) in the Border Counties.— It 



may not be without interest to supplement here Mr William Evans' 

 retrospect of the occurrences of Chcerocaynpa celerio in the Lothians 

 {Scot. Nat. for September last, p. 241), by the following notes 

 of records for the Scotch Border counties. Personally I have never 

 been so fortunate as to meet with the insect in life, though we have 

 one or two Northumbrian records of its capture. There is (or 

 used to be) a specimen in Berwick Museum, in the collection of 

 the late William Shaw, which was taken by his brother, hovering 

 over Verbenas at Eyemouth, Berwickshire, in the autumn of 1872. 

 This specimen (which I saw a few years later) was Shaw's justification 

 for including the species as "Rare" in his "List of Eyemouth 

 Lepidoptera," published in Hist. Bk. Nat. Club for 1873 (vol. vii., 

 p. 123); and I happen to have a note that up to the time of his 

 death, in 1908, he had never seen another. Its capture was 

 also referred to by Dr Hardy in the same publication, vol. vi., 

 p. 398. 



In his very useful " List of the Lepidoptera of Roxburghshire," 

 published in 1882 {Hist. Bk. Nat. Club, vol. x., pp. 149 ^^ ^^^l-)^ 

 Mr Adam Elliot included C. celerio as "Has occurred; I have 

 a specimen from the western district " ; and Mr W. Grant Guthrie, 

 in 1895 {ibid., xv., p. 233), mentioned one as having been "brought 

 into the house by a cat " in Hawick, but without giving any date : 

 very possibly referring to the same specimen. Of the almost 

 equally rare Deilephila livornica, Berwick Museum also possessed 

 a specimen, which was caught by the late Dr P. W. Maclagan in a 

 garden in Castle Terrace, Berwick, probably in 1870, or at any rate 

 thereabouts. Of this species Mr Guthrie {op. cit.) likewise recorded 



