144 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



Sympetrum scoticum, Donovan, must in future bear the name of Sympetrum dancz, 

 Sulzer. It appears that a meagre description, accompanied by a recognisable 

 coloured figure, was given by Sulzer in his Geschichie der Insecten in 1 77^, 

 thirty-five years prior to the publication of Donovan's figure in his British Insects. 

 We have now, alas, no Dragon-fly with a name of Scottish extraction. 



Then Prof. T. Hudson Beare draws attention (Ent. Mo. Mag., May 1912, pp. 

 IOI-102) to certain changes which have been made in the latest Catalogue of the 

 Cerambycida (sub-family Cerambycimt), drawn up by Dr Chas. Aurivillius, and 

 issued as Part 39 of the Coleopterorum Catalogus, published by W. Junk, 

 Berlin. The Scottish species concerned in these changes are : Callidiutn variabile, 

 L., which becomes Phymatodes testaceum, L. ; Rhagium inquisitor, F., and R. 

 indagator, Gyll., which are now called R. mordax, De G., and R. inquisitor, L. 

 respectively ; Pachyta cerambyaformis, Schrk., and P. sexmaculata, L., which are 

 referred to the genus Judolia, Muls. ; Strangalia armata, Herbst, which becomes 

 S. maculata, Poda ; and Gratnmoptera tabacicolor, De G., which is placed in the 

 genus Alosterna, Muls. 



Prof. T. Hudson Beare contributes to the Ent. Record for May (pp. 114-117) 

 the first portion of his " Retrospect of a Coleopterist for 191 1." This useful paper 

 shows us that no fewer than twenty-five species in this Order of insects were added 

 to the British list during the past year. Several of these were discovered in 

 Scottish localities. 



In the Zoologist for May 1912 (pp. 190-192) Richard Elmhirst publishes " Some 

 Observations on the Glow-worm (Lampyris noctihica, L.)." These observations were 

 made in a marshy field near the Millport Marine Biological Station, and led the 

 author to conclude that the females of this interesting beetle often take up and occupy 

 a permanent position, that their mates may appear in swarms of several hundreds, 

 and that the latter show a decided preference for red light, which is contrary to 

 what we should expect. 



In the Ent. Mo. Mag. for May (pp. 106-108) J. E. Collin describes three new 

 species of the Dipterous genus Heteroneura. One of them (H. caledonicd) is 

 described from specimens taken by Col. Yerbury and C. G. Lamb at Nethy 

 Bridge and Golspie, while a second (A. verticalis) has occurred at Nairn. 



Dr John H. Wood continues (Ent. Mo. Mag., May 1912, pp. 97-99) his "Notes 

 on British Phora," and mentions P. rufa and P. cubita/is as Scottish species, both 

 being found by J. R. Malloch, late of Bonhill. 



The Rev. J. Waterston records (Ent. Mo. Mag., May 1912, p. 116) the occurrence 

 of the Pediculid parasite Huinatopinus ventricosus, Denny, in Shetland. It is 

 reported by the author as a very torpid creature, occurring on the rabbit, both on 

 Mainland and on the islands in Yell Sound. 



In the May number of the Entomologist, W. J. Lucas publishes (pp. 141-144) 

 the first instalment of a paper entitled "British Odonata in 1911," in which is a 

 useful summary of the records and occurrences of Dragon-flies in Britain during 

 the past year. It is interesting to note that Sympetrumfonscolombii, the new Scottish 

 species recorded by W. Evans (Scot. Nat., 191 2, pp. 12-14), has also been taken in 

 the New Forest, in West Suffolk, and in Merionethshire. 



