276 The Scottish Naturalist. 



Inverary, H. nemoralis and H. ericetorum, with the var. minor, from the 

 Island of Islay, and Sphaerium corneum from Alford, Aberdeenshire. 



ENTOMOLOGISTS' MONTHLY MAGAZINE {July).— Beraea pullata 

 and Cruncecia irrorata bred (from Scotland), by Kenneth J. Morton. 

 A Synopsis of the British Species of (saw-flies belonging to the groups) 

 Cimbicidina, Hylotomina, Lophyrina, and Lydina, is published by Peter 

 Cameron, because of inevitable delay, for at least three years, in the publica- 

 tion of vol. III. of his Monograph of British Phytophagous Hymenoptera. 

 This paper runs on through the numbers for August, September, October, and 

 November, but will not be referred to again. {August) On the Occurrence 

 in Britain of Ornix fagivora and Nepticula Nylandriella (in Suther- 

 landshire, rather common in May on trunks of mountain-ash), by A. F. 

 Griffith. On the Larvae of Coccyx tsedana and Euchromia flamme- 

 ana and arbutana (all from Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi in Sutherland), by 

 A. F. Griffith. {September) The Nitidulidse of Great Britain (concluded 

 this month), by the Rev. W. W. Fowler, notes Ips 4-pusiulatus L., Pityo- 

 phagus ferrugineus Fabr., and Rhizopha^us dispar Gyll., from several Scotch 

 localities, R. ferrugineus Payk. and R. bipustulatus Fabr., as widely dis- 

 tributed ; R. nitiduhis Fabr. at Rannoch, and R. politus Hell, at Aviemore. 

 A Great Swarm of Hydropsyche instabilis Curt, in Inverness-shire, 

 by J. J. King, the insects extended in a cloud for five miles down Glen 

 Tromie. {November) Drepanopteryx Phalaenoides L. in Scotland: a 

 Re-discovery (near Cleghorn, Lanarkshire), by Kenneth J. Morton. {Dec.) 

 Pterostoma palpina in Roxburghshire, by A. Elliott (recorded errone- 

 ously as new to Scotland), see Scott. Nat. II. p. 87. {January, February, 

 March, 1886.) A Hundred New British Species of Diptera, by G. H. 

 Verrall. Many of the species are from Scotch localities, and these we enume- 

 rate below as follows : — Boletina trivitlata Mg., Loch Maree and Tongue, in 

 June ; Scatopse inermis Ruthe, Gairloch : Antocha opalizans Ost. Sack., at 

 Tongue ; Empeda nubila, Arran ; Rhypholophus similis Stseg, Braemar ; 

 Limnophila punctum Mg., Rannoch ; Rhamphomyia spissirostris Fin. , Tongue ; 

 Rh. fumipennis, Muchalls and Rannoch; Rh. plumipes Fin., Rannoch; Rh. 

 simplex Ztt., Aberlady and Inverness; Oreogeton flavipes Mg., Braemar; 

 Clinocera plectrum Mik, Braemar; Tachydromia stigmatella, Ztt., Braemar; 

 Micromorphus albipss Ztt., Aberlady; Syrphus lapponicus Ztt., Pitlochry; 

 Chrysogaster virescens Lw., Rannoch and Loch Maree ; Pyrellia cyanicolor 

 Ztt., Loch Maree and Rannoch ; Plaematobia stimulans Mg., Rannoch, Gair- 

 loch, and Arran ; Spilogaster trigonalis Mg., Tongue; S. pertusa Mg., Brae- 

 mar ; Anthomyia sylvestris Fin., Aberlady; A. striolata Fin., Aberlady; 

 A. disci-eta Mg., Aberdeen and Tongue ; Chirosia albitarsis Ztt., Loch Maree 

 and Tongue ; Themira spinosa n.sp. (described), Loch Maree and Tongue ; 

 T. minor Hal. , Loch Maree ; Spilographa hamifera Lw. ; Tephritis vesper- 

 Una, bred by Dr. W. A. Vice from heads of Hypochceris radicala from Ban- 

 chory, also at Rannoch ; T. conura Lw. , reared by Dr. Vice from heads of 

 Carduus palustris from Banchory, also from Pitlochry ; T. conjuncta Lw., 

 Aberdeen and Rannoch. {January) London Entom. Society {Dec. 2nd, 

 1885), Mr. Porritt exhibited a melanic variety of Luperina testacea from 



