1S2 [August, 



Ztt., but tliej are difficult to make out from Scliiner. I also took 2 J (J of Nemo- 

 telus nigrinus, Fin. Among others that turned up were Kydrotsea palxstrica, Mg., 

 S, Norellia liturata, Mg., J, Cordj/Iura pudica, Mg., 9, Scio7ni/za cinerella^ 

 Fin., (? , and Ochthiphila polystigma^ .V!g., common. A second visit on August 7th 

 produced many of those taken in June, but Nemotelus did not turn up, and Dolicho- 

 podidie were fewer in numbers, but the following species were new : D. griseipennis, 

 Stan., D. trivialis, Hal., Sgntormon pallipes, F., Campsicnemiis scambus,¥h\. ^, 

 C. curvipes, Fin,, and Teuchophonis spinigerellun, Ztt. (? , ? . On nettles close to 

 the shore I found Beris vallata, Forst., in some numbers, in company with a saw- 

 fly coloured exactly like itself. I turned many out of ray net before I noticed the 

 difference. I was pleased to get, on the leaves of Iris, specimens of Loxocera 

 aristata, Pz., and its melanic Xdiviety yerburyi, Aust. 



Tetanocera Ixvifrons, Lw., Graphomyia picta, Ztt., and Themira putris, L., 

 were also among my captures. 



During the first three weeks of September I was in my old quarters at 

 Aberfoyle, Perthshire; not having been there before so late in the season, I added 

 many species to my list for the locality. By sweeping about over fungi I got a good 

 many Mycetophilidx, including Sciara thomse, L., Tetragonenra sylcatlca, Curt., 

 Scej)tonia nigra, Mg., Bolitophila cinerea, Mg., Mycetophila punctata, Mg., 

 M. signata, Mg., 'and species of Sciophila, Ehymosia, Exechia, Boletina, and 

 Cordyla, which I am unable to satisfactorily determine. Sweeping grass, heather, 

 etc., on the hills, produced JDoIickopus atripes, Mg., Syntormon zelleri, Lw. (a <J of 

 this rare species) Platypeza picta, Mg., ^ , Sepsis violacea, Mg., Drymia hamata, 

 Fin., and Tetanocera elata, F. In wooded places I found Limnophila lineola, Mg., 

 Hemerodromia precatoria, Fin., H. melanocephala, Hal., Hyhos grossipes, L., 

 S. femoratus, Miill., Pyrellia cyanicolor, Ztt., Morellia simplex, Lw., Tipula 

 lutescens, F., and many others. Rhamphomyia variabilis, Fin., was fairly common, 

 and I got a great many R. spinipes, Fin., on bracken. Lianealus virens, Scop., was 

 widely distributed over the hills, occurring on damp rocks. Pipiza noctiluca, L., 

 and Leptis lineola, F., were taken at Loch Ard, as also a good series ( J ? ) of a 

 fine Limnophora, which as yet I have been unable to make out. It was common 

 resting on the rocks along the side of the Loch. — A. E. J. Cartee, 4, West 

 Holmes Gardens, Musselburgh : June bth, 1906. 



" Types of Siphonaptera in the Daleian Collection." — Under the above title 

 the Hon. N. Charles Rothschild, in this Magazine (ser. II, vol. xiv, p. 144 et seq.) 

 criticises the species of Pulicidx described as new by the late Mr. C. W. Dale in 

 " The History of Glanvilles Wootton." Four of these species (Pulex cuniculi, 

 Ceratophyllus musteUe, C. gallinuhe,a.nd Tyjjhlopsylla sorec/*) are admitted as valid 

 by Mr. Rothschild, and the types of these, mounted as microscopic slides, are now 

 in the Hope Department of the Oxford University Museum, having been quite 

 recently received with the extensive and valuable collections bequeathed by Mr. 

 Dale to the University.— James J. Walker, Oxford : July I7th, 1906. 



