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fairly long list of visitors: — Hymenoptera : small ichneu- 

 mon-fly, two. DiPTERA : Rhamphomyia nigripennis, F. 

 (a small Empid), one ; Syrphus cinctellus, Zett., one ; S. 

 vitripennis, Mg., two; Hydrotaea irritans, Fin., two; Ptero- 

 paectria frondescentiae, L., two. Coleoptera : Meligethes 

 aeneus, F., one ; MaWiodes oninimus, L., one ; Anasjns rufi- 

 lahris, Gyll., a great many. Hemiptera : Pithanus Tnaerkeli, 

 U.S., one ; Lygus leucoru7n, Mey., one. Pseudo-Neur- 

 optera : Mesopsocus imipunctatus, Mtill. On one of the 

 spikes were three young snails, apparently Helix 

 arbustorum. 



None of the above appears among the visitors to L. ovata 

 mentioned by Knuth. 



On a flowering spike of Orclds "macidata, L., growing 

 along with the L. ovata, the small brownish beetle, Anaspis 

 rufilabris, so abundant on the latter plant, was also present 

 in considerable numbers. 



Some Moss Records for Selkirk, Peebles, and the 

 LoTHiANS. By William Evans, F.R.S.E. 



(Read 8th February 1917.) 



The discovery of mislaid specimens and notes, and the 

 results of some further field-work, since the publication 

 of the Census Catalogue of British Mosses in 1907, have 

 enabled me to supply records filling up many of the gaps 

 in respect of the above counties. A number of these 

 records were included by Mr. James M'Andrew in his 

 Notes on Some Mosses from the Three Lothians (Scot. 

 Bot. Rev., 1912, p. 202), while all the Linlithgowshire (West 

 Lothian) ones have been given to Mr J. C. Adam for inclu- 

 sion in his paper on the Mosses of that county (a^itea, p. 123). 

 The additions contained in the present paper, therefore, 

 relate to a large extent to the Selkirk and Peebles lists, the 

 former of Avliich must still be far from complete — in the 

 Catalogue it is credited with barelj^ sixty species. In 

 December 1901, the late James Murray, author of the list 

 of Mosses in the Handbook of the Fauna and Flora of 

 " Clyde," sent me a list of 104 species he had collected in 



