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Tychus niger, Payk., in East Lothian. — As the only record 

 of this little beetle for the Forth area is now nearly eighty years old, 

 and there are but two or three altogether from Scotland, the capture 

 of a specimen ( $ ) at Gifford, East Lothian, on 2nd November 191 1, 

 is of considerable interest. The sight of some patches of moss at 

 the edge of a wood suggested to Mr K. J. Morton, who was with 

 me, the possibility of finding a certain rare Neuropteron, and it was 

 upon shaking a handful of this moss over a newspaper that I 

 detected the Tychus. In Wilson and Duncan's Entomologia 

 Edinensis, 1834, we find (Addenda, p. 340) the entry, " Tychus niger, 

 Braidhills"; while in Murray's Coleoptera of Scotland, 1853, the only 

 record is "Raehills, Rev. W. Little." Sharp for some reason did 

 not include the species in his Scottish list, which accounts for the 

 remark, "it does not appear to occur in Scotland," in Fowler's 

 book. It has since, however, been reinstated as a Scottish insect 

 (from Ayrshire and Paisley) by Mr Anderson Fergusson, in the 

 Amia/s Scot. Nat. Hist, for 1896. — William Evans, Edinburgh. 



Linlithgowshire Heteroptera. — Since recorded Scottish 

 localities for Heteroptera are not very numerous, and as very 

 few species have yet been reported from this county, the occurrence 

 of the following less common species may be worthy of mention : — 

 Phytocoris di/nidiatus, Kbm. — Kirkliston and Clifton, on oaks. 

 PJiytocoris pini, Kbm. — Kirkliston, on Scots-pine. Dichrooscytus 

 ruftpeimis, Fall. — Kirkliston, on Scots-pine. Dicyphus epilobii, 

 Reut. — Hopetoun and Kirkliston, on Epilobium hirsutum. 

 Dicyphus pallidicomis, Fieb. — Kirkliston, on Digitalis purpurea. 

 Aetorhinus angulatus, Fall. — Lochcote Marsh, on Salix. Cyrtor- 

 rhiuus caricis, Fall. — Lochcote Marsh. Macrocoleus hortulanus, 

 Mey. — Hopetoun, on Ononis. Phylus palliceps, Fieb. — Kirkliston, 

 on oaks. Corixa geofroyi, Leach — Humbie Reservoir, Niddrie 

 Burn, etc. Corixa sahlbergi, Fieb. — Niddrie Burn, Birdsmill, etc. 

 Corixa distincta, Fieb. — Humbie and Kirkliston Reservoirs, etc. 

 Corixa carinata, Sahib. — Canal near Winchburgh. — S. E. Brock, 

 Kirkliston. 



Recurrence of the rare Crab, Paromola cuvieri, in Scot- 

 tish Waters.— Since the first authentic Scottish record of this giant 

 amongst British Crabs was noted in the Annals a couple of years 

 ago {Annals Scot. Nat. Hist., 19 10, p. 12), three specimens have 

 been found in the deep water to the west of the British Isles. Two 

 of these were obtained by a trawler far off the south-west of Ireland 

 (Caiman, Irish Nat., 191 1, p. 75), but the third is a northern 

 specimen, and is the second from the neighbourhood of north-west 

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