284 TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE [sess nxx1. 
Mr. W. Batrour Gour.ay exhibited a photo of a fastig- 
iate Beech from Dawick near Peebles. (See Plate L. fig. 2.) 
T. Bennet Cuiark, C.A., forwarded a specimen of the 
Daffodil-Fly—Merodon equestris, Fab. 
Mr. W. EvANs writes with regard to this fly :—“ This was 
doubtless originally imported into this country and is so still 
in the larval stage in narcissus bulbs from the Continent. 
It was first definitely identified as British near London in 
1869, and has been recorded as doing much damage on 
narcissus bulbs in Cornwall, etc. The first specimen recorded 
from the Forth area was taken by myself in June 1899 in a 
nursery garden, Newbattle Terrace, Edinburgh, as recorded 
in my note in the ‘Annals Scot. Nat. Hist.’ 1900, p. 251. 
It was previously recorded from Kinnoull Nursery, Perth 
(Grimshaw, ‘Annals, 1899), and since from Aberdeen 
(Mearns, ‘ Annals,’ 1901).” 
