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myriophyllum, crowded with its peculiar reproductive capsules, and 

 3. cluster of the rare Camp a nut aria gigantea, growing on a dead 

 shell of Aporrhais pes-pelecani, also the Molluscs Astarte sulcata, 

 and Solecurtus antiquatus. 



During our three days trip the surface fauna had not been 

 neglected, as one of the party attended to the tow-nets, and also 

 to one sunk a few fathoms down. He was chiefly on the outlook 

 ior fish ova ; but though not very successful in his special 

 search, many other interesting things were got in abundance, such 

 as the disputed organism Peridiuium, many Diatoms, Plcuro- 

 brachiae, Copepods, and other small Crustaceans, Medusoid gono- 

 phores, larvae of Echinoderms, and Molluscs, etc. 



On the whole the Mollusca and Echinodermata appear to be the 

 strong groups in the fauna of Lamlash Bay ; what seemed to us 

 a feature is the relative scarcity of Zoophytes (though the 

 list of species is a pretty full one), compared with such a district 

 as the Firth of Forth, where, on the oyster banks, many specimens 

 are obtained in every haul of the dredge. 



By the time we reached Rothesay late in the afternoon, the ele- 

 ments were raging fiercely overhead, and a smart thunder storm 

 attended by a heavy downpour of rain set in; however as any port 

 is proverbially acceptable in a storm, the writer found a very pleas- 

 ant one in a friend's house at Innellan, where he turned up a few 

 hours later, thoroughly drenched, sunburnt, and hardly recognis- 

 able, yet pleased withal with the result of the dredging trip to 

 Lamlash Bay. 



Scottish M arine Station, Granton. 



Boreus hyemalis L., near Aberdeen* — Of this curious insect I took two 

 males and one female in the beginning of the month of November last on a 

 mossy wall-top within a mile or two of Aberdeen. They agree in every 

 respect with the description in M'Lachlan's Monograph of British Neuroptera- 

 Plampennia {Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1868, p. 218-20), and males have the 

 ventral valve as described on p. 219, not as in B. Westzvoodii Hagen. I was 

 able also to confirm the saltatorial habits and the mode of pairing mentioned in 

 the above account. I am not aware of any previous record of this species 

 from Scotland. 



JAMES W. H. TRAIL. 



