22 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



Atheta liliputana, Bris., a beetle new to the British fauna, is 

 recorded and described by Malcolm Cameron in the Entomologisfs 

 Monthly Magazine for October last (pp. 223-224). Five examples 

 were taken near Brockenhurst (Hants) in May and June. A table 

 is given of the British species of the genus. 



At a meeting of the Entomological Society of London, held on 

 1 8th October, H. St J. Donisthorpe exhibited specimens of 

 Lesteva luctnosa, Fauvel, a species of beetle new to Britain, from 

 the Isle of Eigg, taken on 1 7th September. 



To the British list of Saw-flies the Rev. T. D. Morice adds 

 {Entomologisfs Monthly Magazine, October 191 1, pp. 227-229) 

 Periclista pnbescens, Zadd. A single $ was swept or beaten from 

 oak leaves at Porlock (Somerset) on 28th April. 



The Rev. James Waterston records (Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 October 1911, p. 236) the occurrence of the Mallophagous 

 parasite Nirnuis uncinosus, N., on a Corvns comix shot in North 

 Mavine, Shetland. 



In the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for October (pp. 225- 

 226) a very useful paper is given by Malcolm Burr, on our British 

 Dermaptera (Earwigs), accompanied by a well-executed coloured 

 plate of all the species. 



An important paper on the " Slipper Limpet or " Boat Shell " 

 {Crepidula fornicata), by Dr James Murie, appears in the November 

 number of the Zoologist (pp. 402-415), accompanied by two plates. 

 This mollusc is an American species, whose recent introduction into 

 British waters is supposed to have a deleterious effect on oysters. 

 Particulars are given of the discovery of this troublesome limpet 

 on the east coast of England, in certain portions of which the 

 species appears to have become thoroughly established. Further 

 inquiries and research are recommended in order to cope with 

 the evil. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



A Fauna of the Tweed Area, by A. H. Evans. Edinburgh: 

 David Douglas, 1911; price 30s. net. 

 The Fauna of Tweed forms the tenth volume of the series of the 

 Vertebrate Faunas of Scotland which we owe to the initiative of 



