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I should like to mention a specimen in my own collection. It was 

 taken while on the wing, at the foot of Ben Lawers, on i8th June 

 1910, and is a finely marked specimen. — David Ha:\iilton, 

 Edinburgh. 



Saperda carcharias, L., in Aberdeenshire. — In the October 

 number of the Scottish Naturalist reference is made to the cap- 

 ture of Saperda scalaris, L., in Inverness-shire. It may be of 

 interest to record that, while cycling home from Aboyne to Aber- 

 deen in September, I found a fine female specimen of S. 

 carcharias crawling over the Torphins turnpike road, about one 

 mile to the east of the village of Kincardine O'Neil. On both 

 sides of the road at this point poplar trees are numerous, and 

 doubtless the insect had emerged from one of them. In Fowler's 

 British Coleoptera (vol. iv.) records are given from Sutherland and 

 Moray, and in the supplementary volume (vol. vi.) from Grantown, 

 Strathspey, Morayshire (Evans). To these records Aberdeenshire 

 may now be added.^WALTER Ritchie, Aberdeen. 



Calandra oryzae, L., in Bast Stirlingshire. — In September 

 last Mr J. M'Naughton sent me over a dozen examples of this 

 AVeevil, which were found among maize got from Dunipace Mill. 

 Though an introduced species, Calandra oryzce is on the British 

 list, the presumption being that it has become established at 

 several places in this country. Murray mentions in his 1853 

 Catalogue of Scottish Beetles a single specimen taken in Edinburgh, 

 and I am not aware of any other "Forth" record. — William 

 Evans, Edinburgh. 



A new Scottish Gnat — Ochlerotatus salinus. Pic. — In 



late September at Arrochar I found in pools of brackish water full 

 of decaying seaweed, larviv and pupa^ of Ochlerotatus salinus. 

 I bred out the adults from pupa;, and submitted some to Mr F. W. 

 Edwards of the British Museum, who very kindly identified the 

 species. The adults are vicious biters. Brackish water is the 

 normal habitat of the larva;. — (Miss) L. H Huie, Entomological 

 Department, Edinburgh University. 



[So far as we are aware, the only British records of this species 

 are from Sussex, Essex, Dorset, Devon, and Kent. — ^Eds.]. 



Ereniocoi'is pletaeius, Pall., in West Inverness. — Seeing 

 there is but one Scottish locality, namely, Forres, given for this 

 plant-bug in Saunders's Heniiptera-Hetcroptera of the British 

 Islands, the following additional record seems worth publishing. 



