VI CONTENTS. 



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On the Ucciurence of the Gave Spider (Mela menardi, Lutr.) 



near Dumire, Ayrshire. By John Siiiitli, - - - - 290 



Exhibition of Lantern -slides, 296 



Death of Dr. Alexander Frew and E. A. L. Batters, LL. B., 



B.A.,F.L.S., 297 



!Notes on Phorkhv and other Diptera. By J. R. Malloch, - 297 



Occurreuce of Fetromyzon 7narinu,% L., at Uddingston, and 



Uenlrina salviani, Risso, in the North Sea, - - - - 298 

 Lecture on the Pycno(joiiida, or Sea-spiders. B\' Professor 



Leonard A. L. King, M. A., 299 



Proposed Public Exhibition of the Conniion Wild-Flowers of 



the District, 299 



Black-necked Grebe (Podiceptu jiii/ri'-oiiix, G. L. Brehni) from 



Helensburgh, --------- 299 



Great Grey Shrike (/.-a7wi/s ea;cit&/<o>', L.) from Arran, - - 300 

 Notes on the Glass-rope Sponge (Hyalonevia Sieboldii, Gray). 



By Alexander Ross, ..---..- 301 

 King Eider Duck (Somateria spectabilis, L. ) from near Tayport, 301 

 Occurrence of Corymbetes ceneus, L., at Glen Galium Bay, South 



Bute, 301 



Ou the Fish Fauna of the Upper Silurian Inlier of Lesmahagow. 



By Peter Maonair, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., 302 



On Recent Additions to the Diptera of the Clyde Faunal Area. 



By Robert Henderson, ------- 302 



Remarks on a Nightjar (Caprimulijus ciirop(('Uf!, L.) from Car- 



donald. By Robert W. S. Wilson, 303 



Remarks on the Occurrence of Bemhidium qiiiulri(/iit/t_(tum, l'\, 



at Fairlie ; Xotoxus monoceros, L. , at Monkton ; and Leiopus 



nebulosus, L., between Craigallion and Blanefield ; with 



Notes on previous Scottish Records of these Coleoptera. 



By John E. Murphy and Alexander Ross. - - - - 304 

 MicrothamnioH Kutziwjianum, Nag., from Ailsa Craig; Spiro- 



tcBJiia condtnsata, Breb. , from Balmaha ; and Desmidinm 



Swartzii (?), Ag., from Milngavie, 305 



Abstract Statement of Accounts — Session 1906-1907,- - - 306 



Indice.s — 



General Index, ---------- 307 



Topognphical Index, --------- 310 



Index to Names of Contributors, &c., 318 



,, Popular Names, - - 320 



,, Scientific Names, Zoology. ----- 323 



Botany, 329 



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