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and pupa; of J/, minor are hidden in the wood, and are 

 not exposed to the eye on the stems being barked, necessitates 

 that where stems are prepared as traps in which the beetles 

 may breed, the barking of these decoy trees must not be 

 delayed till the larvK have reached their full growth. 

 M. minor bores most willingly in standing trees; it also 

 uses, but not nearly so often as J/, piiiiperda, felled logs 

 and stumps. Like J/, piniperda, it also attacks the shoots 

 of Scots Pine. In a few cases I found parasitic Hymen- 

 opterous larva; feeding on the larvae of M. minor. 



NOTES. 



White-toeaked Dolphin on the Fife coast of the Firth of 

 Forth. — Seeing there are but two recorded occurrences of this 

 cetacean in the Firth of Forth, and that both belong to the south 

 side of the estuary, the following record from the Fife coast seems 

 deserving of a place in these pages. On 22nd November 1913, I 

 found a cetacean lying on the shingle at high-water mark about 

 three-quarters of a mile east of St David's, Fife, and just where the 

 coast turns in to Donibristle Bay. It had evidently been dead for 

 some time, and decomposition had fairly set in, so that 

 identification by outward characters was not feasible, and the 

 dentition could only be partially examined. My impression was 

 that the animal was most likely a Delphinits aibirosfris, but the 

 possibility of its being a D. tiirsio was not excluded. Accordingly, 

 at Sir William Turner's request, Mr Henderson, curator of the 

 Anatomical Museum, Edinburgh University, and I went 10 

 Donibristle Bay on 5th December and brought back the head and 

 some other parts of the animal. On these being macerated and 

 cleaned, Sir William Turner was able definitely to confirm my 

 supposition that the species was Delphinus {Lagejwrhynchus) 

 albirostris. It was a female 8 feet 1 1 inches in length, dorsal fin 

 about a foot in height (at tip), tail notched. The dental formula, 

 ascertained from the prepared skull, would seem to be f i : |-^, 

 but one or two of the anterior teeth must have been very small. — 

 William Evans, Edinburgh. 



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