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west coast of Donegal, while Mr Ussher draws attention to the fact that this 

 locality is the same as that recorded last year by Messrs Malcolmson and Green. 

 The latter also refers to the absence of the bird from the cliffs of Achill and Clare 

 Island, although such places are eminently suitable for it. He states that as yet 

 there are only two breeding-places for the species in Ireland — one in Co. Mayo 

 and that in Donegal referred to above. 



An article of unusual interest is printed in the issue of Nature, dated 22nd 

 August 1912. It is by Dr Johs. Schmidt, and is entitled " The Reproduction and 

 Spawning-Places of the Fresh- Water Eel " QAnguilla vulgaris'). As the result of 

 prolonged investigations several important conclusions seem justified. For 

 examples, it appears probable that "all the eels which occur in the North 

 European countries must come from the Atlantic," that "the eel does not spawn 

 in the Mediterranean at all," that "large quantities of eel larvae are carried by 

 currents into the Mediterranean from the Atlantic," and that "the spawning- 

 places must lie in the Atlantic beyoLd the Continental Slope, and that they must 

 be in the Northern Atlantic." 



The Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society has 

 just issued vol. xxiv. (New Series) of its Transactions and Journal of Proceedings. 

 It forms a volume of 344 pages, and contains a series of papers of much interest, 

 both locally and generally. Thirteen full-page plates are also given. Among the 

 papers two are of interest to Scottish naturalists, viz., one on the "Destructive 

 Forest Insects of Dumfriesshire," by W. H. Whellens, and the first instalment of a 

 useful paper by Bertram M Gowan, entitled " A List of the Coleoptera of the 

 Solway District." In this section of the paper the Carnivorous Ground-Beetles of 

 the tribe Geodephaga are dealt with, and of these 159 species are recorded. It 

 would have added to the interest and usefulness of the list if the new records had 

 been marked with an asterisk or otherwise specially indicated. 



In the September number of the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (pp. 2 1 2-2 1 3) 

 Prof. T. Hudson Beare publishes a note on the i: Recapture of Bembidium virens, 

 Gyll., at Loch Maree, Ross-shire." Ten specimens were taken on the 1st and 2nd 

 August last. A list of other interesting beetles taken or seen on the loch side is 

 also given. 



Gervase F. Mathew records {Entomologist, September 1912, p. 278) the capture 

 of a ^ example of the Hawk-Moth, Deileplula galii, at Spean Bridge, Inverness- 

 shire, on the 24th July. 



Rev. Arthur S. Hoole, in the same journal (p. 279) states that Metrocampa 

 margariiaria has been exceedingly plentiful this year at Kyleakin, Isle of Skye. 

 At the same place he also took three specimens of Thyatira batis [Lepidoptera], 



In the Entomologist for September (pp. 260-264) F. W. Edwards concludes his 

 useful "Notes on the British Mosquitoes (Culicinae)." The genera Aedes 

 Taniorhynchus, T/ieobaldia, and Culex, are dealt with, and the paper concludes with 

 a list of reputed British species and a key to the known larvae of the whole group. 

 We note the following Scottish records: Aedes cinereus, Mg., Edinburgh; and 

 Theobaldia theobaldi, Meij., Dingwall. 



In Nature of 12th September is published the Opening Address to Section C. 

 (Geology), by its President, Dr B. N. Peach, F.R.S. It is entitled " The Relation 

 between the Cambrian Faunas of Scotland and North America," and occupies 

 about seven closely printed pages of the journal. 



