75 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



Amphibians, Fresh-water Fishes, and Macro-Lepidoptera of 

 the county of Renfrew. A useful paper on the Fossils in 

 the Paisley Museum, by Duncan Smith, occupies some fifteen 

 pages, and a well-executed geological map of the county 

 is pasted within the cover of the book. The editor himself 

 has contributed a readable series of " Introductory Notes," 

 which should inspire the Society's members to further effort. 



The study of our Polych^ete Worms is being prosecuted 

 with vigour, notably by students of the Gatty Marine 

 Laboratory, St Andrews. This is no doubt largely due to 

 the inspiring influence of Professor M'Intosh, our great 

 authority on this group of creatures. A fourth part of the 

 " Report " on the specimens obtained by the Scotch Fishery 

 Board vessel, Goldseeker, has just been published by James 

 W. Pryde.^ Ten families are dealt with and thirteen species 

 described. It is pointed out that the number of specimens 

 representing these species in the Goldseeker's collection was 

 much smaller than in the case of the previous section of 

 the Report, and hence the worms belonging to the families 

 concerned are presumably less abundant. 



A new Scottish beetle is recorded by T. Hudson Beare^ 

 in the Entoniologisfs Monthly Magazine. A specimen of the 

 species in question, Oxyomus porcatus, F., was taken in 

 Craigentinny Meadows, near Edinburgh, in May 1908. 

 Several papers of interest appear in the January and 

 February numbers of the same journal. Among these may 

 be mentioned one by Herbert Campion on the life-history 

 of Snake-flies {Raphidid) ^ ; an account of the larva of the 

 rare " Short-tailed " or " Bloxworth Blue " Butterfly {Everes 

 argiades) by T. A. Chapman,^ illustrated by one coloured 

 and four uncoloured plates; and a further account of the life- 

 history of that interesting Hymenopterous insect known as 

 Methoca ichnenmo7iides, by H. G. Champion.^ 



^ Ann. a7id Mag. Nat. Hist.., February 191 5, pp. 239-256. 



2 February 1915, p. 43. 



2 January-February 191 5, pp. 24-26. 



* February 19 15, pp. 35-38. 



^ February 19 15, pp. 40-42. 



