2i6 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



North Sea Powers land two million tons of fish a year ; of this grand total Britain 

 contributes more than 60 per cent. ; while of the total British catch 84 per cent, is 

 landed on the East Coast of England and Scotland. Again, when speaking of the 

 drift-net used for herring-fishing, it is stated that in our Scotch fisheiy no less than 

 two hundred million square yards of netting are used. The net "is only a narrow 

 strip, but make it into a single square, and it would more than cover London." 

 But to be fully appreciated the address must be read in toto. 



At a meeting of the South London Entomological and Natural History Society 

 held on 14th March last, Mr Blenkarn exhibited the recently described Beetle, 

 Haliplas nontax, from Coatbridge (vide Entomologist 's Record, July to August 1 9 12, 

 p. 200 ; and Entomologist, August 191 2, p. 232). 



James E. Black publishes (Ent. Mo. Mag., August 1912, pp. 185-186) a short 

 "Note on a Peculiar Form of Noiiophilus." Three specimens are referred to, two 

 of which were taken by the author at Peebles and the third by Col. Yerbury in 

 Sutherlandshire. Herr Reitter pronounces the Beetle to be bigeminus, Th.= 

 pusillus, Wat., var. 



Richard S. Bagnall, in the Entomologist' s Record (July to August 1912, p. 191) 

 records the capture of sixteen specimens of Hylecatus dermestoides, L., in a log of 

 Scotch fir on the side of Loch Lomond. Five of the Beetles were females, while 

 the males represented the two varieties marci, L., and morio, Fab. 



In the Ent. Mo. Mag. for August (pp. 181-18$) appears the first instalment of 

 a paper by D. Sharp, entitled "Notes on the British Species of Op/ionus" 

 [Coleoptera]. 0. brevicollis is recorded from Dumfriesshire. 



The concluding portion of the late G. H. Verrall's paper on " Another 

 Hundred New British Species of Diptera" appears in the August numl er of the 

 Ent. Mo. Mag. (pp. 190-197). The Scottish records are numerous. 



In the August number of the Entomologist (pp. 217-220) F. W. Edwards 

 continues his valuable " Notes on the British Mosquitoes (Culicinae)." In this 

 instalment, Ochlerotalus nemorosus, Mg., is recorded from Torphins (Aberdeen), 

 North Sutor (Cromarty), and Nethy Bridge (Inverness). 



On pp. 221-223 of the Entomologist (August 1912) W. J. Lucas gives a 

 summary of the British Neuroptera examined by him and captured by himself and 

 others during the year 191 1. This paper includes the Scottish records published 

 by the same author in our last issue (pp. 186-187). 



Richard S. Bagnall, F.L.S., contributes a paper on new British Myriapods to 

 the Zoologist for July (pp. 264-266). In it the following Scottish records are given : 

 Lithobius borealis, Mein., Ben Ledi (Evans) and Ben Vorlich. 



The Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, for August contains (pp. 165-185) an important 

 paper by William Small, M.A., B.Sc, entitled " Report on the Annelida Polychaeta 

 collected in the North Sea and adjacent parts by the Scotch Fishery Board Vessel 

 Goldseeker. — Part I. Amphinomidse to Sigalionidoe." The paper is accompanied 

 by a plate, and contains records of twenty-seven species. The descriptive and 

 critical notes given under each form render the paper indispensable to students of 

 British Annelids. 



