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with Schraiik's description, which, alLliough brief, is yet sufficient easily to recognise 

 the species. If you have but once seen the larva of T. abieticola in a developed 

 stage, you will, like me, not have the least doubt of it being identical with the insect 

 which Schrank had before him. This identity is also rendered all the more probable 

 because Schrank says nothing about his Chermes rhamiii living in a deformation of 

 tlie leaves as the larva of Trioza Walkeri does, and also because T. alietivola is 

 one of the most common Pgyllidce in South Germany. 



Frauenfeld's opinion that Chermes rhamni, Schrk., is identical with Trioza 

 Walkeri, Fiirst., was an error, of which he himself seems to have been aware, and 

 which he would not have made if he had known the larva of T. abieticola. — 

 Dr. Feanz Low, Vienna : 19^^ April, 1877. 



Proceedings of the Natural History Society of G-lasgow, Vol. iii, 

 Tart i. Glasgow, published by the Society. 1876. 



This Part extends to nearly 100 pages, and in all respects is extremely creditable 

 to the Society. The contents are varied, and valuable, as usual ; possibly, however, 

 there is a paucity of entomological matter. Mr. Binnie gives useful notes on the 

 Leptoceridce of the Glasgow district. Mr. Cameron has two Hymenopterous papers : 

 one is (that which it professes to be) a Monograph of the British species of 

 Fhceniisa (and supplement thereto) and Cladius ; the other consists of notes on tlie 

 Hymenoptera of Kingussie, full of useful notes, amongst which is the remai'k that 

 Trichiosoma lucorum, when circling round the tops of birch trees, makes a buzzing 

 like that of the humble-bee.* The only other paper that comes within our province 

 consists of notes on the Honey-Bee, by Mr. R. J. Bennett. 



In connection with this Society we should not omit to mention the handsome 

 little volume on the Fauna and Flora of the Wes.t of Scotland (Glasgow : Blackie 

 and Son), published on the occasion of the Meeting of the British Association in 

 1876. The entomological portion is worked out by Messrs. Cameron, Binnie, and 

 King, the latter cataloguing the Lepidoptera in a very complete manner. It is to be 

 regretted that the Coleoptera are not represented, especially as there is more than 

 one competent Coleopterist in the district. 



Transactions of the Glasgow Society of Field Naturalists, Part iv, 

 .Session 1875-6 ; published by the Society. 1876. 



Possibly this notice should have been incorporated with the foregoing remarks. 

 Glasgow supports two non-antagonistic Societies, and the favours of leading local 

 Naturalists appear to be bestowed upon both. We may, perhaps, rejjrint the chief 

 entomological paper appearing in these " Transactions," viz. : Mr. Binnie's notes 

 " On Dipterous Gall-makers and their Galls," which deserve to be more widely 

 known. 



* I can confirm this from observations m.ade at Rannoch in 1865. In the Lot 8un.s)nnc tlie 

 insect.s .ilways kept buzzing nbout the tops of young birch trees, so that it was almost imiiossD.lo 

 to capture them. But J procured enough e.xampleB early in the morning by giving tlic birch 

 trunks a sharj) kick which <lislodged the insects, and, in falling, they " buzzed " as loudly as when 

 flying voluntarily in the suushiue.— K. McL. 



