,|2 The Scottish Naturalist. 



British Tortrices, by Chas. G. Barrett {contd.) ; Hydroptila femoralis 

 Eaton in Scotland, by J. J- King (near Port-Glasgow). {AuouslfjSotes on 

 British Tortrices, C. G. B. {September) Note on the British Species of 

 Laccobius, by D. Sharp, M.B., states as Scottish four species {E. sinuatus 

 Motsch, alutaceus Th., minutus Auct,, and bipunctatus Th. ,) and gives their 

 distinguishing characters ; Eupithecia togata in Roxburghshire, by A. 

 Elliot ; Adicella fllicornis Pict., an addition to British Trichoptera 

 (in Lanarkshire), by Kenneth J. Morton ; Trichoptera from Unst, by R. 

 M'Lachlan {Limnophiliis sparsus, Stenophylax latipennis, S. concentricus, and 

 Pleclrocnemla conspersa, all small and dark; The Nitidulidse of Great 

 Britain, by the Rev. W. W. Fowler (with descriptions), mentions as from 

 Scotland Epurcea silacea Er., E. oblonga Herbst.' {October) E. deleta Er. 

 E. parvuta Sturm., E. immunda Er., E. variegata Herbst. , E. obsoleta Fab., 

 E. pusilla Er., Micrnriila melanocephala Er., besides certain species common 

 throughout Britain ; On Parthenogenesis in the Tenthredinidae, by P. 

 Cameron, records 13 species of sawflies in which the author had proved its 

 occurrence. {November) Notes on the Larva, &c, of Asynarchus ccen- 

 osus curt., by Kenneth J . Morton ; Notes on British Tortrices, by C. G. 

 Barrett, states that original specimens of reputed Scottish Retinia duplana are 

 really small dark R. turionella ; Notes on the Tortrices of Rannoch, by 

 A. Ff. Jones; Penthina Staintoniana a Scotch form of P. Sauciana., by 

 A. Ff. Jones. {December) The Nitidulidae of Great Britain, by W. W. F., 

 enumerates as Scotch Omoslta depressa and Thalyera sericea, besides others 

 generally distributed ; Revision of the British species of Sphecodes 

 Latr., by E. Saunders, F.L.S., mentions 6". subauadratus from Dumfries;. 

 On a Small Collection of Trichoptera from Unst, North Shetland, by 

 R. M'Lachlan, F.R.S. (includes Phrygan a varia F., Limnophilus auricula C., 

 L. griseus L., L. sparsus C., Stenophylax latipennis C., S. concentricus 

 Zett., Mesophylax impunctatus M'Lach. var. Zetlandicus (var. nov. ) 

 Halesus radiatus C., Drusus annulattis Steph., Oecetis ochracea Q.^Plectroc- 

 nemia conspersa C., Polycentropus flavomaculatus Pict. ? Small size and 

 dark colour are dominant features of the Shetland Trichoptera, just as among 

 the Lepidoptera. 



NEW WOKKS ON BKITISH CRYPTOGrAMIC BOTANY. 



Since our last notice (in July) several additions have been made to the 

 literature of this branch, in continuation of works already in progress, and in 

 re-issue of works already known favourably to specialists. Though none deals 

 with the Cryptogams of Scotland peculiarly, yet all contain too much of 

 interest to Scotch botanists to allow of their being passed in silence. , 



Braithwaite's British Moss-Plora has reached its eighth part (Tortulacese) ; 

 the new part fully sustains the reputation of the others. 



Hobkirk's Synopsis of British Mosses has just appeared in a second 

 edition. The book has been favourabiy known to bryologists since its first 

 appearance several years ago, as the most convenient recent small work on 

 these plants ; and the appreciation in which it is held has been proved by the 

 fact that for some time it has been quite out of print. Space will not permit 

 us to say more in this place than that this edition has been thoroughly revised 

 b the author, and has been brought up to date in the information required in 



