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serena, dorsal line distinct, fore margins of segments distinctly 

 pale grey dusted, hypopygium inconspicuous ; legs black, fore 

 knees and base of tibiae yellowish ; fore coxae as in monilis, 

 mid coxae with a strong, downward-directed, backward-turned 

 thorn ; mid femora constricted at apex, antero-ventral surface 

 with a row of bristles about eleven in number, the first five 

 weaker and rather widely placed, the others closer placed and 

 much stronger, the constricted part bare, and about eight small 

 comb-like bristles at the tip; the postero-dorsal bristles more 

 numerous, much as in monilis ; mid tibiae ventrally with a 

 slight swelling before the middle and the apical two-fifths 

 distinctly but not greatly swollen, the pubescence on the 

 ventral surface close, and thick, not very long, but only slightly 

 longer on the tip portion j the bristling peculiar in having the 

 antero-dorsal one very long and near the tip, and the postero- 

 dorsal one small and in the usual position j hind femora nearly 

 bare, two or three long bristles on the antero-ventral surface at 

 the tip ; hind tibia with the antero-dorsal surface clothed with 

 long bristle-like hairs, the dorsal bristles very long, and the 

 antero-ventral surface with a row of long bristle-like hairs of 

 somewhat similar nature ; hind tarsi, especially the last joints, 

 with longer hairs than in any of the other Fa?inia species ; 

 wings dark coloured, third and fourth long veins convergent, 

 last portion of fourth vein about two and a quarter times the 

 penultimate ; calyptra unequal, blackish ; halteres yellow. 

 One c£, Forres, 23rd July 1904 (J. J. F. X. King). 



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NOTES. 



Lesser Shrew and Badger near Glasgow. — It may be of 



interest to record in the Scottish Naturalist, that on the 5th 

 February last I caught a Lesser Shrew (Sorex mi nut us) here. 



On the 21st April I saw fresh tracks of an animal which I believe 

 to be a Badger (Meles me/es), and have seen the animal twice since 

 then running about in a field in the late evening when it was too 

 dark to see it clearly even with field-glasses. I have never heard of 

 a Badger in this district before. — James Bartholomew, Torrance, 

 near Glasgow. 



Badgers in Kirkcudbrightshire. — A Badger (Me/es meles) 



