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Mesopliylax imxninctatus, ^c, in Perthshire. — The occurrence of Mesoiihylax 

 impunctatus, McLach., at Lawers, Loch Tay, Perthshire, may be worthy of 

 mention. A fine fresh example ( <? ) settled on my wife's dress while she was 

 resting on the shore of the Loch in the bright svmshine on July 26th. The 

 members of the group to which this species belongs are essentially nocturnal in 

 their flighty but like some other night-flying insects they seem at times to find 

 their quarters vmcomfortable in hot weather and take wing. A <? Stenophylax 

 stellatus, another night-flying species, was taken the same day under exactly 

 similar circumstances. I do not remember any record of the capture of 

 Mesophylax impunctatus in Britain since my note in Ent. Mo. Mag., XL, 

 pp. 52-53. The British localities are Dumfries-shire (1 $), Coniston (3 ? ? ), 

 Perthshire (as above), and Unst in the Shetlands. — Kenneth J. Morton, 

 13, Blackford Eoad, Edinburgh : October 1st, 1913. 



Distribution of Agraylea pallidula, McLach. — With reference to Mi". Eaton's 

 note (p. 230, antea) on the interesting capture in Berkshire of Agraylea palli- 

 dula, McLach., of which Mr. Mosely kindly told me, it may be well at once to 

 supplement the somewhat incomplete account of its European distribution. In 

 addition to the coiantries mentioned, it has been recorded from several localities 

 in Germany, and it is also well known as a Finnish insect. As an unrecorded 

 locality I may mention Lyons, from which I have a specimen taken by Mr. Eaton 

 himself ' An element of interest attaches to the fact that its occurrence in I'in- 

 land was first established by the discovery of the larvae and pupae. In i^ locality 

 in which Agraylea multipunctata, Curt., occurs, Silfvenius found larvce and pupa3 

 which differed from those of A. multipunctata. Some of the piipse were sub- 

 mitted to me, and as they were nearly ripe for change, there was no difficulty 

 in recognising them as belonging to A. pallidula. Silfvenius adds that younger 

 pupae can be determined from the larval exuviae remaining in the case, the head 

 and thorax of the larva being marked differently from those of A. multipunctata. 

 The cases of the two species are much alike. A description of the larva and 

 l^upa will be foimd in Acta Soc. pro Fauna et Flora Fennica, 26, No. 6, 

 pp. 11-12 (1904). — Kenneth J. Morton. 



Cephenomyia i-ufibarhis in Inverness-shire. — Whilst collecting this svimmer < 

 with my friend Mr. J. E. Black, F.L.S., on Meal-na-Cuaich (3,000 feet), one of 

 the highest hills in the neighbourliood of Dalwhinnie, on July 1st I took three 

 specimens of Cephenomyia rvjibarbis. As I have been led to believe that it is 

 unusual to see this insect at all commonly on the wing, the record of its 

 capture may be of interest. In 1900 Colonel Yerbury recorded it from the 

 Western Cau'ngorms (Ent. Mo. Mag., ser. 2, Vol. XI, p. 56) [March, 1900], and 

 the few observations I was able to make agree with his. On Cviaich, 0. riiji,barbis 

 was flying fairly rapidly over the trees on the upper slopes of the hill (2,500- 

 3,000 ft.). It was not noticed at rest, but on turning over a stone one flew 

 from under it. Two others hovered round my head for some time before they 

 were secured in the net Altogether about ten specimens were seen. In flight 

 they make a low droning noise. — H. B. Johnston, Gonville and Cains College, 

 Cambridge: October llth, 1913. 



