94 The Scottish Naturalist. 



the occurrence of the species in other northern countries, in the north and central 

 German mountains, and in the Swiss Alps. In this paper the above Eupi- 

 thecia is regarded as a dark variety of E. nanata, probably nearest the form 

 obscurata Stgr. 



" Entomologist." — {January 1885). — Cidaria flavicinctata double- 

 brooded, by Mrs. Elizabeth Cross, notes emergence in November of a moth 

 bred from Ova obtained from Rannoch. {February) Eupitbecia Curzoni 

 Gregson, by C. S. Gregson, defends right of this Shetland insect to a name as 

 distinct from E. nanata, an opinion founded on differences in wings (colour 

 and form), and in larva (colour and markings, form and habits). {March) 

 Eupithecia Curzoni, by J. B. Hodgkinson, considers it to be a northern 

 formofii. cdllunaria (E. satyrata). On the variation of Eupithecia nanata, 

 by J. Tutt, remarks on the variability of E. nanata near Garelochhead, where 

 some forms grade into E. Curzoni, so completely that the moths seem indis- 

 tinguishable. 



STETTINER ENTOMOLOGISCHE ZEITUNG, XLV. (1884), Unst ein 

 lepidopterischer Luckenbusser, by C. A. Dohrn (I.e. pp. 186-88), is a 

 notice of the article in the January number (1884) of the Entomologist, trans- 

 lating the remarks on those forms of special interest to continental entomolo- 

 gists, but not adding to what is there said about them. Lepidopteren von 

 den Shetland-Inseln, mit Notizen uber, das Vorkommen der Arten in 

 andern nordischen Landern, auf nord und mitteldeutschen Gebirgen 

 und in den Schweizer Alpen, by August Hoffmann in Hannover (I.e. 

 pp. 253-75), relates to a subject of so great interest to Scotch entomologists 

 that we intend to give a translation of the entire article in the Scottish 

 Naturalist. 



JOURNAL OP THE SCOTTISH METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY. 

 Third series, No. L, with tables for the year 1883, Edinburgh 1884. Meteor- 

 ology of Ben Nevis, First Report, by Alexander Buchan. Preliminary 

 Report on some Observations made in connection with Scottish 

 Fisheries during- the Summer of 1883 (1) At Loch Fyne, by W. A. 

 Herdman, D. Sc, &c. ; (2) At Peterhead, by W. E. Hoyle, M.A. ; (3) At 

 Eyemouth, by Frank E. Beddard, M.A. ; (4) At some of the Scottish 

 Lochs, by Rev. Dr A. M. Norman. The three former reports detail the 

 methods of observation ; the last bears especially on the Entomostracan fauna. 

 The middle water of the lakes is tenanted by species of Diaptomus, Cyclops, and 

 Daphnia, along with Leptodora hyalina, Bythotrephes longimanus and Holope- 

 dium gibberum, and, in some lochs, large numbers of Diaphanasoma. Sida 

 affects the water plants along the margins, and Bosmina the shallow water 

 nearly free of vegetation. Preliminary Work at the Scottish Marine 

 Station, Gran ton ; Report on the Work of the Scottish Marine Station 

 for Scientific Research, both by J. T. Cunningham; Tidal Variations in 

 Temperature at the Scottish Marine Station, by Hugh R. Mill ; Re- 

 ports on Relation of Herring Fishery and Salmon Fishery to Meteoro- 

 logy, Report on the Meteorology of Scotland during 1883, and Re- 

 port of Observers' Motes on the State of Agriculture, Public Health, &c. 

 by Alexander Buchan. 



