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nest was at no great distance, but in it the eggs were almost entirely 

 covered. The birds showed no fear of us, in fact we had only rowed 

 off a short distance when one returned and got on to the eggs, while 

 the other bustled about in the reeds close at hand. — Leonora 

 Jeffrey Rintoul and Evelyn V. Baxter. 



Records of Presh-'water Mollusca from Portpatrick. — 



In Xhe Journal of Cotichology for January 1915 (p. 266) John N. 

 Kennedy mentions the capture of the following species in the 

 vicinity of Portpatrick during the month of February 19 14: 

 LimncRa pereger, L. truncatula, Ancylus fliiviatilis, Pisidium 

 personatum, and F. nitidum. Pisidiuni casertanum is also recorded 

 from Glenluce. 



Oryphalus abietis, Ratz., in Aberdeenshire. — On 13th 

 October 19 14 I found in Hazelhead woods, near Aberdeen, a 

 number of specimens of C. abietis, Ratz., on Silver Fir {Abies 

 pectinata). They have been identified as such at the British 

 Museum. This is the first record for Aberdeenshire, I believe, and 

 confirms the record of C. abietis for Scotland of Professor Hudson 

 Beare {Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. Ixiv.). This occurrence is also of 

 interest, in that in this case the beetle has been found on its host 

 plant — the Silver Fir {Abies pectinata) — Professor Beare's record 

 affording no evidence on this point. Gillanders gives spruce as its 

 chief host, but although numerous spruce trees {Picea excelsa) occur 

 in the immediate neighbourhood, there are no signs of attack by C. 

 abietis. Both larvre and adults were found in astonishing numbers. 

 C. abietis has since been found in several spots in the same locality. 

 In all cases the beetles were found in dead lopped-off branches. 

 The galleries are found chiefly in the bark, with only very slight 

 markings on the wood, principally consisting of the pupal chambers 

 and the portions of the galleries immediately in front of these. My 

 attention was first attracted by the large number of tiny flight holes. 

 Although I have looked for the species in many other locahties, I 

 have never found it, and it seems to be very local though abundant 

 where it occurs. — Hubert James Stewart, Aberdeen, 



Acanthocinus aedilis, L., in Perthshire.^ — Two specimens 

 of this extremely local longicorn beetle have recently been brought 

 to the museum. One was taken at Kenmore by Mr Peter Currie, 

 and the other at Pitlochry by Miss Elaine Stuart. I was not 

 previously aware of any Perthshire locality where it had been taken 

 except Rannoch. It would be interesting to know whether its range 



