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external characters of the shells, Mr Woodward has come to the 

 conclusion that the small collection contains four specimens of 

 Pisidium milium, Held ; two specimens of the lake form of 

 P. casertanum (Poli) { = P- cifiereum, Alder) ; and one specimen of 

 what he takes to be the oval form of P. pulchelhan. All of these 

 records are new to the county list of Ross. That of P. miliiitn is 

 the furthest north recorded occurrence of the species in Britain, 

 but both this species and P. pulchcllum have been recently found 

 in Skye (see Scot. Nat., 1913, p. 13, and 1914, p. 119). — James 

 Ritchie, Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. 



Convolvulus Hawk-moth in Islay. — It may be of interest 

 to record that I took a female specimen of this moth in Islay on 

 the loth August last. — Charles Kirk, Glasgow. 



[According to Tutt's British Lepidoptera, the Convolvulus 

 Hawk-moth has been taken in practically all the vice-counties of 

 the Scottish mainland, and also in Orkney and Shetland. We are 

 not aware, however, of any records from either the Inner or Outer 

 Hebrides. Mr Kirk has generously presented the specimen to the 

 Royal Scottish Museum. — Eds.] 



Saperda scalaris, L., in West Inverness, etc. — When 

 spending a few days with Mr K. J. Morton in the TuUoch district 

 of Glen Spean, last July, he kindly gave me a typically marked 

 specimen (?) of this handsome beetle which he had taken there on 

 the ist of the month. It was captured while at rest on a fence 

 skirting a wood of mixed trees. A few years ago I determined for 

 Mr J. W. Bowhill a specimen he had caught on 3rd August 1907, 

 at Rannoch, the locality in which this longicorn has been taken 

 more freely than anywhere else in Scotland. So long ago as 1853, 

 Murray in his Catalogue of Scottish Coleoptera (p. 84), recorded it 

 from Rannoch and Raehills (Dumfriesshire). Rye gives Rannoch 

 as a locality for it {British Beetles, 1866, p. 208), and in Sharp's 

 Coleoptera of Scotland it is entered with the Tay and Solway 

 districts against it. Nevertheless its occurrence in Scotland was not 

 mentioned in Fowler's Coleoptera of the British Islands (vol. iv., 

 1890), which no doubt led Fergusson {Scot. Nat., 1914, p. 36) to 

 include it in his additions to Sharp's catalogue, on the basis of 

 Champion's record of 1900 from East Sutherland. In the recent 

 supplement to Fowler's work (p. 284) the Scottish status of 

 S. scalaris is given thus : "Scotland, Rannoch, etc., not uncommon." 

 — William Evans, Edinburgh. 



Saperda scalaris, L., in Inverness-shire. — During a collect- 



