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Anderson Fergusson, in the Glasgow Naturalist (vol. iv., No. 3, pp. 70-81), 

 publishes a second paper on " Additions to the List of Clyde Coleoptera." No 

 fewer than 155 species are recorded in the list as new to the area under con- 

 sideration, making a total of 1 200 now on record. 



After a somewhat long interval the Rev. F. D. Morice resumes, in the Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. for July (pp. 153-159), his exceedingly useful "Help-Notes towards the 

 Determination of British Tenthredinida?, etc." In this, the twenty-ninth instalment, 

 the genera Allantus, Jurine, and Tenthredo, L., are dealt with, and a synoptic table 

 is given for the determination of the twenty-three species which have any claim to 

 rank as British. T. relox, F., is recorded from Rannoch (Donisthorpe). 



In a short instalment of the late G. H. Verrall's paper on "Another Hundred 

 new British Species of Diptera," published in the July number of the Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. (pp. 145-147), Medeterus excellens, Frey, is recorded from Nethy Bridge 

 (C. G. Lamb). The female is described for the first time, by J. E. Collin, from 

 specimens taken by Col. Yerbury in the same locality. 



F. W. Edwards publishes, in the Entomologist for July (pp. 191-195), the first 

 instalment of a valuable paper entitled "Notes on the British Mosquitos 

 (Culicinoe)." At the outset an artificial key is given which will be useful for the 

 novice, while the more advanced student is furnished with a table of Genera, 

 including both males and females. We notice that most of the British species 

 formerly placed in the genus Culex are now called Ochlerotatus, differing from true 

 members of the restricted genus Culex in having the claws toothed. 



In a note entitled "Land Shells from Largs," published in the Journal of 

 Conchology (vol. xiii., No. n, July 1912, p. 320), J. R. le B. Tomlin records 

 thirteen species, one of which {Hyalinia lucidd) is a new county record for Ayrshire. 



In the continuation of his paper on "Additions to 'British Conchology"' 

 {Journal of Conchology, I.e., pp. 324-338) the following species are recorded from 

 Scottish waters : — Pleuroloma turricula, Mont., var. rosea, M. Sars ; P. trevelyana, 

 Turt. • Cypraa europcea, Mont., var. minor, Marsh. ; Cylichna acuminata, Brugin ; 

 C. umbilicata, Mont. ; C. umbilicata, var. strigella, Lov. ; C. ovata, Jeff. ; C. alia, 

 Brown ; C. alba, var. corticata, Beck. ; Utriculus mammillatus, Phil. ; U. truncatulus, 

 Brugin, var. pellucida, Brown ; U. oblusus, Mont., var. lajonkaireana, Bast. ; U. 

 ventrosus, Jeff. ; U. expansus, Jeff. ; U. hyalinus, Turt. ; U. globosus, Lov. ; Actceon 

 tornatilis, L., and vars. subulala, S. Wood, and tenella, Lov. ; Bulla utriculus, 

 Br oca, and var. oblonga, Jeff. ; Scaphander lignarius, L., var. curta, Jeff. ; S. 

 puncto-striatus, Migh. ; Philine scabra, Mull., and var. circa, Marsh. ; P. catena, 

 Mont., and var. zona, Jeff. 



Charles Oldham records in the same journal (p. 340) the occurrence of 

 Limax cinereo-niger in Westerness. Half-grown examples were taken in 

 September 1 91 1, on fungi, in the birch forest at Fort Augustus. The Hon. 

 Recorder records (p. 342) Clausilia bidentata in abundance at Yair — an addition to 

 the Selkirkshire county list. Among the " Census Authentication?," given on p. 

 349, we note Arum intermedius, A. circumscriptus, and A. subfuscus, var. 

 aurantiaca, taken at Creetown in Kirkcudbrightshire, by E. Collier. 



"Some Echinorhynchs from the Clyde Area," is the title of a paper in the 

 last published number of the Glasgow Naturalist (vol. iv., No. 3, pp. 88-90). The 

 author, Richard Elmhirst, records seven species of these Round-Worms, taken 

 variously from the Cod, Lythe, Saith, among fishes ; the Common Frog ; and 

 the Blackbird, Starling, Shag, Cormorant, Lapwing, and Common Gull. 



