258 [November, 



emerged. However, I secured frosh material and olitained a specimen of the 

 weevil in August. My correspondent, Mr. Watt, Assistant Forester on Darnaway 

 Estate, writes that a twelve year old plantation of Scots Pine, along the left 

 bank of the Findhorn, has suffered from the attacks of this weevil, the broken 

 leaders of the pines testifying to the damage done, which is considerable. 

 Aftected shoots show an irregular spiral gnawed in the tender bark, and finally 

 the burrow in the heart of the twig. Except for the spiral groove the frass is 

 very similar to that of Myetophilus piniperda. — James W. Munro. 



Rhaqium hifasciatum. P., attacking hirch, S(c — In April of this year I foimd 

 the larva, pupa, and imago of R. hifasciatum living in decaying sti\mps of birch 

 on the banks of the North Esk in Forfarshire. The trees had been destroyed 

 by the fungus, Pohjporus betulinus. Almost every stem of birch was infested, 

 while a few scattered Scots Pine stems in the condition usually associated witli 

 the presence of Rhagium showed no signs of its presence. I have also found 

 R. hifasciatum larvjB in birch in Perthshire. In the neighboiirhood of Aberdeen 

 this Longicorn beetle does considerable damage to paling posts which have not 

 been creosoted or tarred. On a little frequented track in the neighbourhood of 

 the suburbs of Cidts and Bieldside, the paling posts on either side of the road 

 have been riddled by R. hifasciatum. Larch, pine, and spruce posts are equally 

 affected. Posts which have been in iise three or four years only are attacked ; 

 fresh or recently erected fences are untoviched. In the same neighbol^rhood 

 Trypodendron lineatum also occurs on paling posts and rails, which when split 

 show its curious galleries. — James W. Munro. 



Rhahdophaga alhipennis, Houard, in Aberdeenshire. — Two species of willow, 

 S. caprea and S. anrita, in this district are the hosts of what I take to be the 

 gall-midge, R. alhipennis. Young tAvigs of these willows may show a slight 

 swelling, so slight as to be almost unnoticeable, in the heart of which an orange 

 Cecidomyid larva is found. The larva lies just under the cambial layer. 

 Occasionally one finds twigs torn by tits, which evidently feed on the larva. 

 So far I have not succeeded in hatching out the midge itself. Prof. Trail, of 

 Aberdeen University, informs me that this gall has not been recorded for the 

 district. It is not easily noticed although fairly common. During the past 

 summer I collected numbers of them in the neighbourhood of Tharandt in 

 Saxony. The gall and its enclosed larva accord in all respects with R. alhipennis, 

 Houard, Zoo-cccidies, No. S. 32, page 138. — James W. Munro. 



.4 new British Nycterihiid. — I have received diu'ing the last few years some 

 examples of Listropoda hlasii (identified by Dr. Speiser) taken from Daubenton's 

 Bat and Natterer's Bat. The specimens in qviestion were taken at Henley-on- 

 Thaines, Teddington, Middlesex, Christchurch, and near Bai-nsley, Yorks. — 

 N, Charles Kothschild, Arundel Hoiise, Kensington Palace Gardens, W. 



