26 APPENDIX: NOS. XXIII.—XXIV. 
upwards of one hundred of them, but as yet only in their spring 
appearance. The webs of the feet, the caudal filament, the crests, 
and the dorsal ridges are probably absorbed later in the year, as I 
judge from the degrees of development I have already seen, and 
especially from a Newt of this kind I found in the bed of a pool 
which had been dried up some days before. It occurs in company 
with L. punctatus, but in one ditch I found it alone and in plenty, 
from which I have been able satisfactorily to ascertain the females. 
A more full account will I hope before long be furnished by Mr. Bell, 
who had specimens of the same, or a similar Newt, sent to him from 
Devonshire several years ago. It seems to occur generally round 
Edinburgh, as far as my walks extend. Yesterday (May Ist) I saw 
this, and no other species, during a ramble in the Peutland I[ills. 
3 Roxburgh Terrace, Edinburgh, 
May 3, 1848. 
[In consequence of the above note (No. XXIII.), Mr. William Baker, writing 
from Bridgwater, 10 July, 1848, contributed to ‘The Zoologist’ (p. 2198) one 
with the same title, in which he said that the remarkable characters of the new 
species (as it was then thought to be) were so well recorded by Mr. Wolley that 
there was no difficulty in distinguishing it from its relatives. He stated that it 
was not vncommon in his neighbourhood, and that in May 1845 he had sent 
living specimens to Professor Bell, who considered the species to be not only new 
to this country, but to science, and that he (Mr. Baker) suppused they were those 
which Mr. Wolley had mentioned as having been sent from Devonshire, though 
Bridgwater is in Somerset. Thereupon M. Deby, a Belgian zoologist writing from 
Laeken, 11 July, 1848, pointed out (tom. eit, pp. 2231, 2252) that the species 
described by Mr. Wolley was evidently the Triton (Lissotriton) palmipes of 
Daudin, the Salamandra palmata of Latreille and Cuvier, the Molge palmata of 
Merrem. Under the last of these names it is described by Mr. Boulenger (Cat. 
Batrach. Grad. B. M. ed. 2, p. 16). See also ‘Memoir,’ pp. xix, xx.-—H. ] 
XXIV. 
OccURRENCE OF THE NARROW-BORDERED BEE-SPHINX’ IN 
THE HIGHLANDS. 
[‘ Zoologist,’ vi. (1848) p. 2199.] 
Ts it generally known that this charming insect is found in the 
Highlands? I saw it on June 7th, in a boggy spot between Loch 
Katrine and Loch Lomond, hovering over the same kind of flowers 
that it frequents in the fens of the Eastern Counties ; and in both 
localities it is accompanied by the Greasy Fritillary. 
3 Roxburgh Terrace, Edinburgh, 
June 9, 1848. 
1 [Sesia bombyliformis, Stainton, ‘Man. Brit. Butterflies and Moths,’ p. 99 
(1857); Hemorrhagia tityus, Rothschild & Jordan, Novit. Zoolog. ix. Suppl. 
p. 450, as 1 am informed by Mr. Sharp.—Eb. | 
