22 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL fflSTORT SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



Myiospila meditahunda, F., 



Graphomyia maculata, Scop., 

 *Musca domestica, L., 



Cyrtoneura stabulans, Fin., 



*C. pahuloruni. Fin., 



Mordlia simplex, Lw., 

 M. hortorum, Fin., - 

 *M. curvipes, Mcq., - 



M esemhrina meridiaua, L., 

 Protocalliphora grcenlandica, Ztt. 

 Calliphora vomitoria, L., - 

 *Lucilia sylvarum, Mg., - 



L. sericata, Mg., 



*L. nobilis, Mg., 



May — Sept. C. and gen. dist. 

 June — October. Gen. dist. 

 Jan. — Dec. C. and gen. dist. 



Seldom occurs away from 



houses. 

 Aug. — Sept. Bridgeton ; Den- 



nistoun. Within doors. 

 April. Bonhill (teste Mr. P. 



H. Grimshaw). 

 June — Oct. C. and gen. dist. 

 June — Oct. C. and gen. dist. 

 June. Bonhill {teste Mr. P. H. 



Grimshaw). 

 July — Sept. Gen. dist. 

 ^ May — Oct. Gen. dist. Not c. 

 May — Sept. Gen. dist. 

 June — July. Crookston; Possil 



M. ; Ardentinny. 

 May— July. Murroch Glen 



(J.R.M. and R.H.). 

 One ?, 15th June, 1901, Row- 



ardennan. 



Appleringie, Artemisia Abrotonum, Linn. 



By R. S. WisHAKT, M.A. 



[Read 26th December, 1905,] 



It was a little stalk, dry and withered. Its leaves were pressed 

 together, and the whole had become hard and brittle. How long 

 it had lain between the leaves of an old, well-worn, hump-backed 

 copy of the New Testament nobody can tell, for this book has 

 been handed down through several generations. But the tiny 

 specimen, now only a semblance of its former self, is enough to 

 awaken a new interest and to recall old memories of this always 

 interesting plant. The custom of carrying bits to church and 

 placing them in the Bible or Psalm-book is well known. It is 

 believed that this custom may have arisen from the habit of 



