NATURAI. HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. Vll 



Pliysa fontinalis, L.^Common. 

 LiinncjBa peregra, Miill. — Common. 



L. aurlcularia, L. — ) Local in England, and exceeding- 



,, var. acuta (?) ) ly rare in Scotland. Dr. Jeffreys 



says: "It is local, and does 

 not satisfactorily appear to have 

 been found in Scotland." * It has 

 been taken in the Glasgow and 

 Paisley Canal by Mr. Thomas 

 Scott of Greenock, t The speci- 

 mens from the Timber -basins 

 include both the typical form 

 and a variety which approaches 

 very nearly to var. acuta. 

 Mr. R. Turner gave an account of a recent visit to Luce Bay, 

 Wigtonshire, and made some remarks on the Botany of that 

 district. 



The Chairman (Mr. Alexander) exhibited a small collection of 

 Swiss plants; Mr. Peter Ewing, specimens of Bhinanthus major, 

 Ehr., and Mertensia inaritiina, Don, from the neighbourhood 

 of Kilconquhar, Fifeshire ; and Mr. William Gemmell specimens 

 of Satnbucus Ebultcs, L., which still grows on the roadside 

 between Carmunnock and Kittochside as recorded by Ure in 

 1793. 



Mr. Peter Cameron exhibited part of his collection of Parasitic 

 Oynipidae, including 14 apparently undescribed species, which he 

 named as folloAvs : 



Allotria ruflcolUs, Cam.— Mull. 



A. ruficeps, Cam. — Galloway. 



A. inuUensis, Cam. — Mull. 



A. salicis, Cam. — Kilpatrick Hills. Bred from an Aphis on 



Salix 2>entandra. 

 A. cui^icomis, Cam. — Glen Lyon. 

 A. piceoinaculatus, Cam.— Dumfries. 

 Melanips femoralis. Cam. — Gloucester. 

 Trybliog rajilia nigricoryiis, Cam. — Cadder and Dumfries. 

 T. tcstaceijjes, Cam. — Oambuslang and Dairy (Ayrshire). 

 Psicharca glottiana, Cam. ,, ,, 



P. gracilicornis, Cam. ,, ,, 



^gilips ruficornls. Cam. — Bishopton. 

 ^. striolfita, Cam. — Clober. 

 ^. scotica, Cam. — Glen Morriston. 

 Mr. Joseph Sommerville exhibited living specimens of a large 

 American Ant, Formica pcmisylvatica, De G., a nest of which 

 had been found in a log of yellow pine recently received in 

 Glasgow from Michigan, U.S. The species is very widely dis- 



* Brit. Conch, v. lOJ. f Proceedings, v. 311. 



